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

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

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

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

Mini activities on point of view, descriptions and explanations. Questions based on H G Wells The Red Room.

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 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 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.

20 questions on Blood Brothers.

Group activity directing to key characters and events in the play.

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

Lesson includes context and work sheet to support pupils study the poem.

Three to four lessons on Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter. Aimed at KS3 and includes a fun trial of Mary Maloney.

Lesson on propositions with creative writing activity based on Pixar’s Alma.

Targeted at KS3 pupils to learn about inference and deduction in literature.

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

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.