This is one of a series of lessons that I am uploading on the old AQA anthology poems. The lessons obviously have a comparative strand running through them and there are lessons for all of the poems from Cluster 1 and 2 uploaded as well as lessons that compare two poems or teach how to analyse them / compare them. Obviously no use for the old spec, but entirwely useful for the poetry comparison piece of controlled assesment in the new AQA spec.

Full lesson PP Music Review This is a full lesson PP that gets pupils to write a music review using the acronym AFOREST.

This is one of several resources that I have uploaded fto support the teaching of the spoken language analysis. This worksheet is aimed at A/A* pupils and covers the vocabulary that they need to use in order to write about speach.

This is one of several resources that I have uploaded to support the teaching of the spoken language analysis. This worksheet is aimed at A/A* pupils and gets them to track how someone speaks in a text that you watch / listen to.

Just a little quiz to start / consolidate learning of text types and forms.

These are the second half of the lessons of a scheme of work that I created last year for DNA by Dennis Kelly. It is aimed at a year 9 class, as the idea is that I am starting to prepare them for GCSE Literature. Therefore, the scheme is a mix of analysis and playing with the text too. I've used a variety of ideas to teach it. All lessons are complete lessons in themselves with the resource at the end of the powerpoint, so they are all embedded. You may wish to adapt / cut apart and mix them up.

Taken from AQA GCSE exam previous teaching, this is one of a series of lessons that I have uploaded on all of the poems from the anthology. The anthology may no longer exist in it's current form, but the poem is still valid for study and the lesson is self contained for leading analysis of the poem.

Selling Ice Cream – Persuasive Writing This is a full self contained lesson plan that can be used on it’s own or can be taught as a full scheme of work alongside the other 6 that I have uploaded. All lessons start with the name Selling Ice Cream for ease of finding. In this lesson, the L/Os are: To enhance your vocabulary by working with unfamiliar words in a piece of persuasive writing that is fit for purpose

This is one of a series of worksheets that is used over each lesson to help pupils to write a response to a question about the play 'Our Day Out'. Each lesson is split by each paragraph of the essay and their is a guide for each paragraph. All resources ahve been uplaoded with the same title for ease of finding if you want to combine them, rather than use as standalone.

This is one lesson that I have taken from a whole scheme of lessons. Each poem can be used as an individual lesson, or, if you would like to teach all of the lessons, search for ' Poetry Scheme - 3 Poems - Lesson Miss R' and they should all come up for you to work with. At the end of the unit, there is a reading and writing assessment that involves analysis and creativity too. This lesson delves into Education For Leisure and gets pupils to analyse it in detail.

This is a full powerpoint lessons, ready to teach but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context. This lesson covers the order and skills of writing discursive essays within the context of the existance of Nessy

This is a full lesson pp that introduces some poetic terms using analysis of the poem Blessing.

Pupils have to read the quotes and decide whether or not the meaning that is on each slide is positive or negative

Full lesson with resources on the ingredients of film reviews and how to write film reviews.

Each lesson Powerpoint is a complete lesson and it has been uploaded with all of its resources for that lesson beside it. All lessons have been saved with the same title to make it easier to search for them.

Powerpoint outlining the writing skills needed to successfully produce a relavent and accurate newspaper article.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - on writing to argue

This isn't much really but I found it very hard to get support when I first started out with the functional skills qualifications, so I created this document with links to all of the websites that could help.

This is a full lesson PP with resources that is ready to teach. it is one of a series that I have uploaded so can be taught in sequence or you can teach each as a standalone lesson as a all have learning points int heir own right. This particular lesson is about a Victorian Christmas.

This is a full day's worth of lessons all put together for an off timetable day to prepare pupils for the iGCSE exam and the writing tasks.