Each device includes questions and activities to help pupils learn and apply the techniques. Devices covered include: Simile Metaphor Analogy Imagery Motif Hyperbole Alliteration Allegory Anecdote Onomatopoeia Assonance Juxtaposition Symbolism Pathetic Fallacy Personification Repetition

This is a whole lesson on skimming and scanning for a mid ability ks3 group. There is a video clip that tests pupils’ skimming and scanning skills as well as multiple questions (you can pick and choose which ones you wish to do depending on ability).

This is a whole lesson on explicit and implicit skills aimed at lower ability children. The lesson is based on text Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s/Philosopher’s Stone CHAPTER ONE ‘THE BOY WHO LIVED’ and also contains a physical activity that allows pupils to infer and ‘act’ out the image.

A comprehensive lesson that looks at the narrator’s role with questions, essay question and a sample response with key extracts from the play.

A whole lesson contextualising the school system (secondary modern/grammar) with questions based on extracts from the play.

Introductory unit on Poetry. Poems used include Flanders Fields and Exposure.

An interactive way to learn and apply inference skills based on Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder. This lessons also contains The Simpson’s appropriation of the plot to help lower abilty pupils understand the Bradybury’s plot.

A fun interactive resource on semantic fields with a peer assessed activity at the end. Includes an additional activity if time permits.

A free 3 slide power point focussing on the language used to describe utopias/dystopias.

A look at the perception of motherhood in Blood brothers with an essay question and sample response.

A short scheme of work examining Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley’s poems also containing creative lessons on poetry as well.

A lesson which covers staging terms as well as poses questions on tension and superstition with a sample response.

This lesson covers the following techniques: Anaphora Pathos Holophrase Synecdoche Metonymy Semantic Field This can be used as a linguistic lesson or just a fun creative wriiting activity.

Explores the staging and set as well as key terminology. Main activity asks pupils to act out a key scene.

feedback lesson using pupils’ work to feedback best and worst.

AImed at KS3. A fun activity to encourage pupils to learn and apply persuasive literary devices in the form of a pitch.

The lesson covers the relationship between Mickey and Edward and the increasing hostility created by their social conditions. Includes questions and sample response.

A few lessons on comparative poetry skills focusing on WW1 poetry.

A lesson introducing students to sentence structures (simple, compound, complex) as as well as sentence types (imperative, declarative, exclamative and interrogative.

Free lesson on how to write a PETER or exam response.