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 the Cratchitt's Christmas.

I have uploaded 20 lessons in this series in total - each with it's own resources where relevant. Each lesson Powerpoint can be taught as a standalone lesson, or used within the series. These are brand new lessons and they structure the reading of the novel, whilst analysing it. Designed for AQA Literacy specification. This lesson covers different versions of the text.

This is a set of articles about the Death Penalty - great for anlaysing persuasive techniques.

This is a full lesson PP - ready to teach - although you may wish to change / differentiate to your own context on the above named topic. This lesson covers how to write newspaper articles.

Literacy Starter –Commas These few slides can be added to the start of any lesson to use as a settler for when the pupils come into the room and to incorporate literacy skills into your lesson. This particular exercise is a text that pupils need to correct by adding the commas

Literacy Starter – All Types Of Punctuation These few slides can be added to the start of any lesson to use as a settler for when the pupils come into the room and to incorporate literacy skills into your lesson. This particular exercise is a text that pupils need to correct by placing the correct punctuation in place.

This is a worksheet to help pupils to write poetry / a story in the gothic genre.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded on the novel Holes by Louis Sacher, ready to teach with it's resources (if aplicable). Although, you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. They can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This lesson covers the opening chapter of a novel.

After learning about Dickens and gaining familiarity with the book, this is a pictorial quiz that encourages pupils to think about the links in the book.

This lesson could be for any Key Stage 3 English class as it covers the redrafting process.

With Ofsted's clear focus on literacy, this is a full worksheet that van be encorportaed into any lesson in order to build a language starter into your lesson.

This is one of a full unit of lessons that I have uploaded with their resources. You can teach the lessons by themselves and without the others, or feel free to use them all. If you type 'spoken language study Miss R' into a resources search at the top of the screen, they will all come up in a list. This one is a lesson that covers the outline of the course and what socialect is.

This is a full lesson using a Functional Text as a stimulus and it encourages pupils to use the Reading Afs to design questions. Designed to enable pupils to work with the reading AFs and familiarise themselves with them.

This is one of a full unit of lessons that I have uploaded with their resources. You can teach the lessons by themselves and without the others, or feel free to use them all. If you type 'spoken language study Miss R' into a resources search at the top of the screen, they will all come up in a list. This one is a lesson that starts to cover occupational language

This worksheet is designed to extract a creative piece of descriptive writing.

This is another example of work completed in year 9 to prepare pupils for assessment at GCSE - so it is more structured than controlled assessment allows for. However, this is based on the old specifications with an ora assessment for reading - so will need to be tweaked. Using a range of different activities, this assessment picks out key language fro the prologue and makes up a full morning of activities for English students.

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 discursive 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 writing to argue

This is one of many resources, full lesson powerpoints and quizes that I have uploaded on the short story 'Through The Tunnel'. The lessons aim to encouage pupils to read the story, evaluate the ending and then write an alternative ending. Great for practising narritive and imaginative writing skills. I use it with mixed abiility year 9 pupils and APP it for a level. All resources are uploaded with the same heading for ease of search if you'd like to use them together. Pupils really enjoy this unit.

Chapter 1 Oliver twist Full Lesson PP In this lesson, pupils read Chapter 1 and analyse the quotes in it. There are a selection of quotes on the PP but you can change them to your own topic. The topic for this one is how Oliver is treated by the State or for AQA GCSE, it works perfectly for 2012 submission of identity and 2013 submission; family.

These are two lessons about a little story called the Long Walk that are designed to get pupils to unpick how the author creates a sense of character and relationship.