A powerpoint introducing the Christmas Truce of WW1, exploring how the soldiers would have been feeling. This culminates in pupils writing a letter home, as a soldier, explaining what has happened and how they feel about it. Used in conjunction with studying WW1 poetry.

A literacy work booklet focussing on Comparatives and Superlatives. Could be used for general English lesson use but also for cover lessons or homework.

Info sheet to guide pupils on how to build strong metaphors.

A homework sheet for pupils to completed, locating quotations / lines that reflect themes. Used in a LA set.

War Photographer Storyboard HWK task. Copy of poem. pupils need to summarise each stanza and then draw an image that represents it.

Structured tasks on showing not telling method of creative writing. Variety of tasks, leading towards final task of writing from a visual prompt.

I have created DIRT tasks on the AQA Lang P1 2019 paper Q2 & 3, which my class used as a mock/inidicative assessment. The slides include typed up copies of the indicative content, which pupils then used to ‘magpie’ ideas, to improve their own responses. This also enables pupils to be engaged with the markscheme and develop their understanding of have their responses are graded against 4 levels: simple, some, clear, perceptive - and what that may actually look like on paper.

A reading log for pupils to keep track of where they are.

Descriptive writing cover lesson - 1 slide, with all info on.

A 1 slide presentation, writing task - writing to describe with a narrative frame to guide the pupils.

Shakespearean language Starter activity - Thou, thee, thine and thy Activity Task, with answer slide.

Activities on ‘accept’ and ‘except’; ‘affect’ and ‘effect’. Have used for cover lesson. SPaG revision / adapt into starter activities

Worksheets for each stanza of Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘War Photographer’. Suitable for Mid- low ability classes, or a higher ability class, as a first response type activity. Activity mostly aimed for understanding meaning and imagery, as opposed to analysing language, form or structure.