Holes SOW Lesson PPs to support text; lesson This is one of a series of lessons that i have uploaded to structure the reading of the text Holes - aimed at year 8, the scheme breaks down the chapters / character and themes and prepares students of literature study. made in my PGCE year, so not great but can be adapted and should provoke ideas for lessons, if nothing else.

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 a full lesson pp with the objectives: To be able to use a range of adjectives to describe a scene.

I've used this as a starter to help pupils to highlight gothic words.

This is one of several resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Pre1914 poetry. This is taught to develop pupils comparing skills and would be relevant to the AQA new specification for language and poetry. This particular resource is a lesson PP that covers the above theme.

This scheme of work consists of 8 taught lessons that I have uploaded under the same title as lessons 1-8. All of the resources required for each lesson are uploaded alongside the lesson for ease of finding. These lessons are aimed at C grade writers and are ideal fo year 9 writers too (level 5 and above). Based on Urban Myth inspiration, the scheme goes through the planning stages into completion and writing.

This is one of many lessons and resources that I have uploaded on Russel's Blood Brothers for the AQA Lit specification. This is a full lesson that shows pupils how to tackle the question: At the beginning of the play, the Narrator introduces Mrs Johnstone as the mother so cruel. How does the play go on to create sympathy for Mrs Johnstone? Also includes a WWTBAM starter to get the lesson going.

This is a full lesson PP that introduces the themes of violence and conflict in the play with the use of the prologue.

This is a full lesson pp on the word play that is used by Newspaper Editors - L/O: To appreciate a writer’s use of wordplay to create striking headlines.

Rime Of the Ancient Mariner full PP lesson This is one of nine lessons that form the analysis of the Rime Of The Ancient Mariner. The lessons are aimed at Key Stage 3 and have a variety of tasks in them to help support pupils in accessing the poem. They culminate in a reading assessment that is uploaded as lesson 9 and can be App'd.

Standardized Test Tips including question styles and what the test writer wants you to do.

This is a full lesson PP that revises adjectives, verbs, nouns etc and encourages pupils to use them to build sentences.

This is a year 9 lesson. The images are all of my own and are my daughter when she was much younger. The idea is that pupils try to guess who the objects belong to and explain why - it's about using stereotypes to address a reader.

This is a lesson to structure the writing task mock - the teacher can go through both of the questions prior to pupils attempting them so it provides an opportunity for class planning / scaffolding before pupils attempt the mock.

This is a mini scheme of work for KS4 English students in which they prepare their own individual contribution about what they would put into room 101. The lessons go through the context of room 101 and then how to structure their speech.

These are two speaking and listening lessons that can be used for GCSE assessment. All resources are also included here.

This is a tutorial with templates and resources on how to teach unseen poetry using a giant Jenga. The idea is that pupils come up and collect bricks and the bricks have numbers - each number relates to a quote from the poem, with a series of questions. This resource contains: The Tutorial - on how to engage all pupils with each quote; The Jenga template with hyperlinks to each brick number - each of these slides can be changed so it can be used again and again; A Writing Ladder with a model answer. The WL does not relate to any grades - it is about getting students to use the process of going up and down it. A Model answer; All of this tutorial is set up for Roald Dahl's poem 'Television', so this can be used to teach the poem to students. Students do get genuinely engaged with both the random use of Jenga and then trying to guess what the text is.

This training PowerPoint covers the research, and highlights the issues, with boys studying English. It looks at some of the issues and there are practical suggestions as to how to combat some of the barriers that boys may have when succeeding in English. There are 72 slides in total. The training aims are: To dispel some of the myths about why Boys underachieve in English. To consider the evidence from various Education “experts” about what does work. To be introduced to some strategies that have been proven to improve boy’s literacy, engagement and achievement in English.

These are 3 complete lessons that deconstruct the ingredients, tone and structure of book reviews and show pupils how to write one. This little unit of work cumulates in pupils writing their own review. There is a strong emphasis on redrafting and proofing work, too. Lesson 1: To analyse the style and format of a successful review, so that I am able to use this information to prepare my own. Lesson 2: To be able to decipher information that will inform, interest and explain to a reader. Lesson 3: To build on prior work by redrafting and improving it, so that it meets the conventions of a genre.

By using the AQA and Edexcel criteria, I’ve created reading and writing grids for assessment in KS3 based on 1-9. These grids are what’s being used to help drive progress in this unit of work. The grids for the Literature style question are included with these lessons. This unit is designed for KS3 pupils to get them used to how to tackle the exam style questions, so the outcome is an AQA Literature style question. These lessons are not about the teaching of the text. They are specifically about how to analyse language and structure; how to critically evaluate; how to write about social historical context and how to put all of these elements in an essay style answer under timed conditions. Each lesson is full of models that address all components of the mark scheme. There are a variety of activities within lessons, lots of cooperative learning etc. Each lesson is designed to last 1 hour - but many took longer to deliver so you can easily make these span 15 lessons… at least 3 weeks of planning covered for you!