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 look at different types of structure in Blood Brothers with a modelled response. Foreshadowing Analepsis Juxtaposition Repetition Cyclical structure Motif Focus Prolepsis

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

This is a lesson introducing pupils to structure through the notion of story mountains (they have the opportunity to create their own) as well as a look at Todorov’s Narrative Theory before moving on to analysing an extract from Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder.

A KS3 lesson designed to get pupils thinking about how punctuation shapes meaning. The main activity is based around Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

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.

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

This is a lecture that I delivered for third year undergraduates at the University of Leicester on various approaches to Oscar Wilde. This lecture takes a historicist perspective so there’s lots of raw primary material on Wilde and the various editions of The Picture of Dorian Gray. You can use this for A-LEVEL pupils, or University graduates.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.