To Kill a Mockingbird: detailed writing frame for essay responses

An effective lesson on subordinate clauses with learning objectives and 3 accompanying worksheets.

Worksheets on prefixes and suffixes.

Identifying the purpose and audience: 2 worksheets

A worksheet looking at the quotes from the 4 best scenes which link to multiple themes that may come up in the AQA 1-9 examination.

A series of 2 lessons which use the elements from Mozart’s Horn Concerto (concerto, sonata form, 6/8 time signature) to as a stimulus for a composition task (original music also provided). All instrumental parts and composition tasks are differentiated and Sibelius files are also provided. PowerPoints for the lessons are available with differentiated and push your thinking tasks.

A series of 4 lessons based on Grieg’s ‘In the hall of the mountain king’, Stravinsky’s Firebord suite and Adams’ Short ride in a fast machine. These pieces are used as a stimulus to perform sections of classical music and create compositions in the western classical genre. All resources are differentiated. PowerPoints are also provided with differentiated tasks and push your thinking ideas.

Turn the story of Pandora’s Box into a storyboard.

A carousel style activity inviting students to understand the meaning of the challenging vocabulary in A Christmas Carol. The words are broken up into Staves. After learning the words, students should have the opportunity to put the words into context by producing a paragraph, poem or song.

Resources which enable students to create an ensemble performance of My Heart Will Go On. Parts include keyboard, vocals, guitar melody, bass line and ukulele chords (with and without note names). A Sibelius file is also provided and a platinum piano part (2 hands with broken chord left hand) is also provided.

Differentiated worksheets which summarise the main composition development methods and cover texture, melody, rhythm and harmony.

Differentiated assessment/planning sheets to support students with a response to the following exam style GCSE question: How does Shakespeare present Lady Macbeth as an unconventional Elizabethan woman? A focus on how Lady Macbeth is presented in Act 1 Scene 5 and Act 1 Scene 7. There is a writing frame and easier planning sheets for lower ability students.

A helpsheet containing 10 generic ways that students can improve their sentences in a second draft of a piece of narrative or descriptive writing. Ideal for Key Stage 2/3 or for low ability students at Key Stage 4. Examples are included. The 10 strategies are differentiated in order of difficulty and are designed to help students in a mixed ability class to respond to feedback on narrative writing by selecting the methods to help them improve.

Worksheet and PowerPoint for analysing Shelter’s word choice and extending explanations on Shelter’s character. There is also an intro activity based on the covers of the book and an activity to encourage students to come up with two alternative interpretations.

Differentiated PowerPoint with learning outcomes to help students answer the following question based on Chapter 8 and 9 of Oliver Twist: To what extent is Fagin an out and out villain? Lower ability students will look at how Fagin is an absolute villain. Higher ability students will also look at his redeeming qualities. Also includes a model response to annotate to help students improve their second draft or respond to feedback.

Brennan on the moor. Cloze exercise for updating this ballad.