Resources to help students write their own soap script. Includes a high level example and planning sheets to prompt ideas.

Write a poem based on the play. Bronze: cinquain Silver: haiku Gold: personification poem

Writing to describe a room in your house. 5 levels of differentiation. I found this to be useful for a cover lesson on descriptive writing.

A useful resource for getting KS3 students to self-assess their progress in English. Includes a detailed VCOP and some exemplars.

Extended writing self assessment grid

Useful model when looking at descriptive writing.

Lesson and differentiated resources for teaching students how to write a review of the award winning short film ‘Father and Daughter’ 2008 by Michael Dudok de Vit. Link to film included.

‘When I have fears’ by Keats. 2 worksheets containing reading and writing tasks.

11 strategies for how best to use teacher modelling of exam responses.

Media terminology - card sort activity

A simple but effective and engaging scenario for a speaking and listening group discussion. Students must take into account the biographies of all the guests before deciding on the best possible seating plan for the bus trip. There is also a sheet with useful discussion prompts to help promote effective discussions.

Room 101 speaking and listening lesson and resources

A lesson on The Manhunt followed by a lesson on how to write a comparison between Manhunt and Dulce et Decorum Est.

Lesson introducing To Autumn. Includes annotations, context and questions.

Analysing the opening of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet. essay guide

The role of the nurse in Romeo and Juliet. Essay writing guide

Act 3 Scene 1 Romeo and Juliet learning journey - useful to set as a cover lesson.

I have divided the play into smaller chunks. Students must find key quotations from each scene from the play and make links to one of the 6 themes. The page numbers are for the Methuen edition with the red cover.

A task involving transforming a simple 3 paragraph grade 3 piece of narrative writing into a grade 4/5 response. Students rewrite the grade 3 description with improvements in the following areas: varied sentence types varied openers varied punctuation ambitious vocabulary similes and metaphors