Works pupils through how to write a thesis statement for GCSE. The purpose of this lesson is to build students’ confidence in thesis writing, linking the thesis statement to the body of the essay and encourages students to explore the thought process behind each step. The purpose of this lesson is to ‘demystify’ the writing process. This lesson seeks to explicitly teach one strategy to tackling essay writing. The slides walk students through a heavily scaffolded, step-by-step process, which, by the end of the lesson students will have practiced the skill of essay/rhetorical writing and will have exercised the thought process that goes into each section. In the ‘Resources’ section, there are a range of texts that you can choose from which can be used to explore the ‘question’ used to model the process. The questions is ‘How does the writer present attitudes towards love?’. The teacher has the freedom to choose from a range of texts (can be found at the end of this PPT under the ‘RESOURCES’ section). Teachers can choose from: Shelley’s ‘Love’s Philosophy’ Barrett Browning’s ‘Sonnet 29’ Extract from a Guardian newspaper article on the science behind love Extract from the novel ‘War Horse’

For the more able. Includes notes for each slide

14 tasks for revision - one sheet

To last 7 weeks

Full SOW in PowerPoint (each lesson made). Two PowerPoints for each Half Term second powerpoint - alerted to this issue in review

Created for Year 9

SPaG activities looking at Dobby Creative writing task using the senses

14 weeks of activities to push the more able

19 weekly tasks, 85 pages

Looking at simple, compound and complex sentences

13 tasks. Each Task includes weekly spellings

8 slides full of activities for responding to text . For example: Imagine that you are a pine tree. Write a first person account of the day that you are cut down and taken to someone’s home to be a Christmas tree. Write a letter to yourself in the future. Draw your future ambitions Fill an entire page in your journal with small circles. Color them in and fill them with new words. Recall your favorite childhood game Research a celebration or ritual from another culture.  Write a list of all the things you do to escape. Illustrate the concept of “simplicity”. Find a newspaper article that is an opinion piece – how is this expressed? Find a newspaper article that is an opinion piece that you disagree with – write your side of the argument. Create a true/false quiz for an article Draw your favourite place and describe it.

PowerPoint 1 - focus on reading strategies, and looking at answering: How does the description of the box create a ghostly atmosphere? PowerPoint 2 - characters. Includes a card sort and answer sheet that can be stuck in books PowerPoint 3 - Tension and monologue task PowerPoint 4 - ending Word Document of activity idea Don’t Ask Jack - the story as a printable handout PowerPoint of extended questions Also includes links to sheets that could be used for homework

Words: Atmosphere, biodegradable, reusable Pupils hunt around the library to work out the anagram

For Year 6 and low year 7. Looking at character, tension and reading strategies.

Use Blackfish to answer question 1-6. Refers to the mark scheme.

Perfect for a fun, end of term lesson before the Christmas holiday.

each slide is each act

Essay questions (12) with structure support and extract. Each slide is a page.

Full homework booklets to support literacy. Made up of created and found resources.