This is a full day session that I have put together aimed at D/C borderline students to help them to get top of Band 3 answers in the AQA Language exam. I was teaching a class of Pupil Premium boys, so the sessions are chunked, repetitive and feature really clear structures and methods to help the boys to see the clarity of how to tackle the paper with competitions and cooperative learning to boot!

This is one of the homework booklets that we've created for pupils in school. The year and level is indicated in the title. It covers essential English skills.

This lesson works in conjunction with other lessons on the same poem that have also been uploaded. This is a full lesson PP with the objectives of: To think about what the back story to the poem might be by looking at the images in the poem. To consider the Poems central themes and issues

This is a full lesson pp with background info on slavery that enhances pupils' ability to analyse the poem.

Non Fiction Writing – writer’s purpose and viewpoint This is one lesson of 15 that I have uploaded (with resources if applicable) on non fiction texts and analysis for year 7 pupils. All of the lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to teach, although you may wish to adopt them for your own context. This full lesson covers the writer’s purpose and viewpoint

Believe it or not, this very simple lesson is a reminder to D/C borderliners on how they should be writing accurately. It's to hammer home the very basics that make the very big differences in their writing marks - 2 hour lesson.

Luckily, we will never be in the position again where I have to teach 2 specifications at the same time to the same class. However, this is the scheme that I created last year when this was the approach adopted by the Head. Although these lessons are aimed at both specs, the full scheme is more IGCSE skills and texts than the AQA. My AQA scheme will be uploaded as a separate entity. 2 of these texts, I've uploaded before but the whole scheme makes sense when uploaded together. Remaining lessons are uploaded separately.

Plot Sort Exercise Of Mice and Men This is a sheet with the plot in the wrong order for pupils to cut out and order the events. Good lesson starter / revision exercise.

This is a full lesson that helps pupils to analyse who they think is to blame for the death of Curley's wife!

This is a full lesson PP that goes over how to emulate the style of tabloid writers.

This is a Full English lesson PowerPoint on Comparing Texts with the L/Os: To be able to explain the effect of presentational and linguistic devices on the reader. To be able to compare two texts and explain which is most effective.

This is one of many lessons and resources that I have uploaded on Russel's Blood Brothers for the AQA Lit specification. This lesson introducse brechtian critique to the play - so that pupils can look at it from a different persepective - targets A A* grade pupils.

Complete Powerpoint quiz lesson on Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Great for a plenary or starter activity on this topic.

This is a pp that teaches pupils how to write about an unseen poem - really really useful and easy for pupils to follow. L/O:To learn a structure that will help me to analyse poems

This is the starter and the worksheets that you need for it. Really interactive - pupils have alsways loved this activity - across Key Stage 2, 3 and 4 - very simple but very effective! Great AFL tool as well.

This is a fully interactive lesson starter on commas - encourages whole class AFL with use of mini whiteboards

This is a full lesson powerpoint with resources embedded at the end of it that breaks down writing about an image into separate sections. All resources included and success criteria.

This is a Key Stage 3 Writing scheme of work that consists of 8 full lesson PowerPoint's and culminates in a writing assessment that mirrors that AQA Language Writer's Viewpoint question for the new specification. Each lesson uses reading skills to help pupils to investigate a variety of texts and to build up an information bank on the topic of the question - which is about teenagers. There are no references to levels / assessment within this scheme so any teacher can add their own assessment model or mark with the AQA Exam criteria.

This is a scheme of work that I have revisited and updated for 2012, to include all APP frameworks, persuasive techniques and analysis of the Death Penalty. The scheme looks at murderers and results in a question about whether or not we should bring back the death penalty. Pupils end by writing a di More…scursive essay, as if they are under controlled assessment conditions, as I am trying to prepare year 9 for their GCSE years. If you want every lesson, type in '2012 Death Penalty Lesson Miss R' and they should come up in a list. This one covers analysis of bias.

Titanic Literacy Unit Lesson 2 This is one of the lessons from a unit of work on The Titanic. The unit explores the Titanic and uses this as the context. Pupils learn and engage with it and develop their literacy at the same time. Ideal for Histpry lessons as well as English and targeted at year 7 level 4 learners. There are other lessons that I've uploaded from the same scheme of work.