A full lesson looking at the start of a collection of stories called Tales of Terror. The lesson helps students to understand how to make detailed inferences about a text and understand the importance of language within a text.

A lesson looking at the character of Gerald in the play, An Inspector Calls.

A full lesson that will last at least an hour and a half. The lesson looks at the differences between fiction and non-fiction writing and the techniques that are used in each. The lesson goes on to guide students to write their own response to an exam style question. This is a fun and easy to use lesson that has been very helpful for my learners.

This is a fantastic lesson that walks students through some of the key questions in the English paper: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

A fully differentiated lesson helping students to approach both the reading and writing components of the functional skills exam. Full lesson complete with mock exam paper

This is a fourteen slide Power-Point lesson that introduces students to Animal Farm and the context around the text. The lesson builds towards helping students to gain a good understanding of language and how to attempt question two from paper one, Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing.

This is a fully differentiated lesson planned for the new specification for Functional Skills level one and two. The lesson looks at how companies use persuasive techniques to influence their audience. The lesson builds skills introducing students to new techniques and how to effectively respond to an exam style question.

A complete walk through of Paper one Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. This is a double-lesson looking at all questions, differentiated to help students gain a deeper understanding of language and structure.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the poet Simon Armitage and his poem Remains. The lesson helps guide students through some of the more difficult language and structural techniques used in the poem.

A fully differentiated lesson that engages students and helps them to approach their G.C.S.E exams

This is a fully differentiated lesson created for the new specification for functional skills level one and two. The lesson helps students to broaden their vocabulary and understand the importance of synonyms.

This lesson was designed to work alongside the GCSE language and literature exams for English. The lesson takes students through some key moments in the text Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and how to approach an exam-style question.

This is a fully differentiated lesson that helps stretch and challenge students in an engaging way. The lesson focuses on understanding the importance of understanding the importance of language in poetry. Additionally it has been used with many of my groups and has helped my students feel confident when faced with a poetry question.

This is a fully differentiated lesson for the functional skills new reform. The lesson focuses on the activist Greta Thunberg and her speech to the UN. The lesson looks at some of the more advanced techniques used in speech writing. Additionally, the lesson looks at a transcript of the speech and allows the students to analyse this in-depth before going on to produce their own speech. This lesson works well for both functional skills and GCSE English, is well planned and comes with all resources needed.

This is a fully differentiated booklet that aims to build skills for the GSCE language paper one explorations in creative reading and writing. The booklet is an ideal resource for intervention or as a homework tool. All of my booklets have been tried and tested and have helped myself and my department to help and support many students to stretch and improve their skills in English.

Speaking and listening lesson for functional skills and GCSE English