9 slide Room 101 Persuasive writing activity encouraging students to complete a persuasive piece using DAFOREST techniques. Including plenary self-reflective activity. Includes hand-out list of techniques for revision and reference during the lesson. Includes worksheet for peer assessment - tick sheet exercise recognising DAFOREST techniques in use for Room 101 presentations.

A 23 slide PowerPoint exploring the role of the witches within Shakespeare’s Macbeth. It includes excerpts from the script, contextual information about King James I and superstition in the 17th century, both comprehension and inference questions and is suitable for all ages! Engaging and informative for all!

A 20 slide PowerPoint exploring Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Standing Female Nude’ - key themes, language and structure with thought-provoking questions for students to respond. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem. Suitable for GCSE, AS level/A-level!

A 14 slide lesson on Imagery with definitions, examples and tasks for students. Whole lesson with beautiful images and engaging writing samples. Suitable for KS3-KS5!

A 17 slide PowerPoint exploring how broadsheet and tabloid newspapers use language devices to engage their specific target audiences. Includes: Exemplar newspaper articles for analysis. Brainstorming to consolidate prior knowledge. Activities for students to work in groups analysing sample articles. Activity for students to create their own newspaper article that appeals to a specific target audience. Homework: To bring in their own broadsheet/tabloid newspaper article for next lesson (editable).

A PowerPoint exploring the poetic voice, including annotation key themes and emotion within the poem 'Inheritance' by Evan Boland. Also includes student tasks to promote independent thought and analysis and some information on the poet. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem. For AS and A level English Literature.

A detailed 12 slide PowerPoint Context Lesson for J.B. Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’ - includes challenging and differentiated questions for students on the political message behind the play as well as information on Priestley’s own life and moral/political perspectives.

A lesson based on Roald Dahl’s descriptive passage on Mrs Pratchett from his autobiography ‘Boy’. Activities on identifying descriptive techniques in the passage, writing about them and then also employing descriptive devices in your own writing. KS3 Year 7/8

This is an 18 slide PowerPoint lesson on W.H. Auden’s poem ‘Refugee Blues’ including contextual information, full annotations, information regarding structure, and differentiated tasks for students to complete in response to the poem in preparation for GCSE. Easily adaptable and suitable for KS3/KS4!

Engaging lesson on creative writing in which the students develop magical powers. Includes snippets of other writing to analyse for linguistic/structural techniques used for effect and to engage a reader. Includes interesting adjectives list and model written piece with questions for students to analyse. Suitable for KS2-KS3!

An 11 slide PowerPoint exploring deeper meaning and language/structural techniques for each line in the poem including questions to promote students’ independent learning. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem. For AS/A Level Post-2000 poetry

An 11 slide PowerPoint detailing the origins of Gothic Fiction, its key features and support for writing your own text including ideas for setting, timing, characters, plot and supernatural elements. Includes a Gothic Vocabulary help sheet for students to use in their own creation of a Gothic Fiction text. Fun and engaging for all! Lots of beautiful images and whizzy animation!

A 19 slide PowerPoint including context surrounding World War II and the Holocaust, as well as plot, character and setting for the novel itself. Suitable for all ages!

A 10 slide PowerPoint exploring the key themes and message for each stanza of ‘Poppies’ by Jane Weir with particular focus on the emotional journey of the mother within the poem. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.

An Ofsted graded 'Outstanding' lesson on the opening chapter of TRASH by Andy Mulligan. This lesson encourages students to work independently, exploring language employed by the writer.

A 21 slide PowerPoint including detailed analysis of the poem as a whole and then with explicit focus on language, structure, tone and deeper meaning with a conclusion listing poems to be encouraged to use for comparison with Doshi’s ‘The Deliverer’. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem. For AS / A -level Edexcel Poetry

A 14 slide lesson on the steps required to write a successful rant. Includes tips and advice as well as model RANT topics. Suitable for GCSE prep!

Glossary of poetic terms for all key stages!

Handy classroom display for students to extend their vocabulary!

A Word document detailing the ingredients of successful PEE language analysis and including a task for students to analyse language used by Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men. Focus is on character presentation of Lennie. Suitable for all GCSE exam boards.