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, three-hour lesson developing skills in language analysis and creative writing. This lesson is tried and tested and enables students to improve their skills for the Paper one exam.

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 that helps students to understand the key components of the Functional Skills level and level 2 qualification. The lesson helps to build the students’ knowledge of language and hoe to use this effetely to develop an exam-style response.

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 is a fully differentiated workbook that is ideal for large classes or small groups. Each question is linked to the paper one exam-explorations in creative reading and writing. All of my workbooks have been tried and tested and have helped my students to improve.

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 looking at the text Lamb to the Slaughter. The lesson helps build and develop the skills needed for questions one to three on paper one of the GCSE language exam.

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

His is a full twenty-three slide lesson taking students through a past paper for Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. This lesson is differentiated and fully ready to be taught. All of my lessons have been tried and tested and this lesson has been very beneficial in helping students overcome the obstacles within this paper.

This is a fully differentiated booklet looking some of the key aspects of A Christmas Carol. The booklet explores several important themes of the story and also includes a creative writing task that guides students to producing their own piece of writing. All of my resources are tried and tested and have helped me with whole classes and also to provide tuition and individual support.

This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at interview technique and expressing a letter of interest. The lesson is not only designed to help build skills towards the functional skills exam but also to improve interview and job seeking skills. The lesson has tasks to assess both the reading and writing elements of the exam. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you like this lesson then please see the full bundles and free resources available at my shop.