This is a scheme of lessons that was used before the new ofsted criteria and can be a starting point if anyone wants to teach pupils about teaching and how to rate teachers . i.e for pupil voice initiatives. It's certainly far from the finished article but would be a good starting point for someone.

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.

This is a one off filler lessons that could be used to explore how mystery and suspense are created by writers.

A couple of lessons that uses a series of reading Image techniques in order to introduce the gothic genre prior to learning about gothic literature. The second focuses on how a writer creates atmosphere.

This is a little scheme of lessons designed to get pupils to look at how news reports work and the to write their own. Aimed at low ability year 7s.

This is the start of a reading scheme for a top ability year 9 set who I started Lord Of The Flies with. It's incomplete as I was pulled off the class and put on year 11 intervention but it&'s a good starting point for anyone that would like to read it for enjoyment with a class.

This lesson is designed to help pupils understand how persuasive techniques can help them throughout their time in school / life.\nThere are a series of ways for them to learn the techniques with active and kagan learning strategies. The lesson was designed to span a full morning - so may ned to be chunked into 2 or 3 smaller sizes for use.

These are lessons from a scheme that I uploaded a couple of years ago but they have been updated to include more Kagan techniques and independent learning strategies. A scheme that pupils really enjoy too.

These are a mini scheme of lessons that are designed to get low ability secondary pupils to engage with the basics by setting up their own Game show. Each week the pupils become more competent at each area and they design their own rounds in a quiz. In the last lesson, the pupils host the quiz with other pupils of the same age. Great for raising self esteem as well. As, when they host, they are great!

This is a mini scheme of work that gets pupils to engage with the stories of Roger Hurn and then to write to him. Roger is a contributor to the TES and was excellent at reading and responding to the letters from these level 3 pupils with SEN. They absolutely loved the letter that they received back as he addressed them all by name and it is still up in their classroom. This is a fab scheme for primary age / ability pupils.

These are a series of lessons that I used with my low ability year 7s to get them to engage with letters that had been sent from China. The letters are attached as images if you want some inspiration. The lessons go through letter writing and how to attempt writing to others.

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 another one of my schemes of work for year 9 that mirrors the skills needed for GCSE. In this scheme, pupils pick up the basics of poetry and analyse different poems. The reading assessment is about comparing the poems and then this leads to a writing assessment that starts at the end of the poems. Pupils then turn one of the poems into a moviemaker presentation and you can assess them for speaking and listening as they explain their image choices. Everything is together here.

These are a series of lessons with their resources that cover both reading and writing skills for year 9 pupils. In Year 9, the curriculum for English, mirrors the GCSE language curriculum, as I teach pupils how to prepare for the independence of controlled assessment. These lessons teach pupils the skills they need for GCSE but they are heavily tied into the APP framework for assessment at KS3. This was a scheme that the pupils really engaged with and enjoyed. It gets them to complete a reading analysis of the Tell Tale Heart, then to complete their own piece of gothic writing.

In this lesson, the class watches some clips from the documentary that represents people from Manchester and then they debate the questions that follow. A good little filler lesson.

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 full lesson powerpoint with all resources embedded at the end. I just used this lesson to secure my next job and it was judged as outstanding at interview. The lesson uses progress indicators, independence and cooperative learning to enable pupils to teach each other features of spoken language. Great for controlled assessment and teaching skills / knowledge of spoken langauge.

This is a full scheme of work that consists of all lessons power points and resources - similar to the one that I've added for Richard III (if you want something less conventional). It&'s for the controlled assessment that compares a Shakespeare play with his Sonnets. The focus of the question is strong feelings of love.

This is a scheme of full lessons and assessment material that that I wrote for GCSE controlled assessment for comparing Shakespeare's work with poems. The poems being used are Education For Leisure, Hitcher and Stealing and the assessment is about comparing disturbed characters. Lots if language analysis of Shakespeare and teaching pupils how to link themes and ideas. Each lesson is separate with resources embedded at the end.