This is a sheet that pupils use to peer assess descriptive work.

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

Based on the WJEC Legacy Spec. for the exams, this lesson is aimed at pupils entering for the Foundation Paper and details techniques used for writing to describe.

Helping pupils to boost from level 5 to 6, this worksheet shows how connectives can improve writing.

This is a full lesson PP that is ready to teach as it is - although you may wish to adpat it for your own class and context. I've uploaded the others in the series with resources under the same title of 'AQA Writing Controlled Assessment'. I'm using this for teaching the AQA controlled assessment writing element of a day in the life / my story where a pupils writes from the eprspective pf being a child soldier. In theis lesson, they plan thir stories.

This is one of many 'Of Mice and Men' resources that I have collected over the years of teaching the novel. I've taught it for various exam boards and in schools in various parts of the country and all will be of some use. You may wish to adopt the Powerpoint lessosn to what your teaching 'slant' / topic is, but I hope they will be of use. For ease of finding, all are listed under the novel title.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for KS3 pupils that gets them to investigate the use of persuasive technuiques. The lesson is 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 gets pupils to llok at the construction of an argument.

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 the chapter of Mr jerome Is Afraid

This is one of the many lessons and resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Macbeth to year 7s working at level 4/5 in English. It's based on an end result of old SATs style type question that can be APP&'d. This particular lesson looks at the opening with the witches and contextualises witchcraft at the time.

Reading Challenge Lesson 7 These are a series of lessons and pps that were designed to support the delivery of the Dfes unit of work on Reading Skills. There are 12 lessons altogether and i have uploaded them all as separate entities as each can be used as a standalone lesson or you can use all 12. The lessons explore different reading skills and they are aimed at year 7 readers - level 4.

Functional English Speaking & Listening - lesson 1 There are 4 lessons altogether - numbered 1 - 4 that have been uploaded. These lessons use the idea of the true meaning of Christmas to get pupils discussing it - then to prepare a grpuo presentation that the whole class completes and marks.

This is a full lesson Pp that allows pupils to prepare for and complete a reading assessment that you can mark with an APP grid.

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.

This is part of a full scheme of work - all uploaded as separate powerpoints, as they are separate resources under the title 'Ballads Full Scheme of Work; Lesson Number' There are up 14 lessons, but the last three are covered by a writing frame as lessons 11 - 14. It's aimed at Key Stage 3 and was written in my PGCE year, so may need some updating and tying into APP criteria to upgrade it, but it's certainly a good starting place.

With Ofsted's clear focus on literacy, these are a few slides that can be copied and pasted into any full lesson powerpoint in order to build a language starter into your lesson.

Case Of Murder - 3 lessons exploring the poem 3 This is one of a series of 3 lessons that have been uploaded and build on from one another - the idea is that, in conjunction, they teach exploring poems.

As it's coming up to Christmas, we do tend to have 'fun day' on the last day of term, where we can play games and activities that engage pupils in a slightly different way... that being the case, this nice little game of jeopardy will get pupils in the festive spirit; but you will need to change the first set of questions for your own school

These are a full set of lessons and resources that I have used to teach Miller's A View From A bridge. All resources are uploaded with the same titel for ease of searching and have been saved under the play name.

This is one of the many lessons and resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Macbeth to year 7s working at level 4/5 in English. It's based on an end result of old SATs style type question that can be APP'd. This is a second PP that I;ve used to teach about witchcraft in the 1600s.

Reality TV – Design Your Own Show This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on the theme of Reality TV – These lessons build into a speaking and listening assessment when used together for pupils to argue for and against Reality TV, but each covers a topic so can also be picked up separately. For ease of locating, the title stem is the same: Reality TV - '. This is a full PowerPoint lesson, ready to teach, but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context and any resources are also uploaded with it. This lesson gets pupils to think about the ethics of Reality TV