Non Fiction Writing – Literary Journalism This is one lesson of 15 that I have uploaded (with resources if applicable) on non fiction texts and analysis for year 7 pupils. All of the lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to teach, although you may wish to adopt them for your own context. This full lesson covers how writers choose language for effect

This is a Full lesson Powerpoint based on the Gothic Genre and detailing Scene Setting. Through a series of activities, pupils are encouraged to write about the images that they see, using their senses.

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 reading comprehension style – there is a text and, if you print off the questions, pupils can answer them whilst you get the lesson set up. This text is accidents can happen.

This is one of many lessons and resources that I have uploaded on Russel's Blood Brothers for the AQA Lit specification. These are 2 lessons that can be amalgamated and adapted to show the links between Mrs Johnston and the character of Marilyn Monroe.

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 speaking and listening spin off activity for the 20% language - a sheet to help pupils to prepare

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.

LO: To deliberately use writing techniques to improve the effect of my writing. Success Criteria: By the end of the lesson, I will be able to provide examples of different types of words or techniques and use them in accurate sentences to write about an image.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed for teaching descriptive skills for the scene from a film task. In this lesson, pupils recap the skills of descriptive writing and are introduced to the task.

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 how to transcribe.

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 transcribing in more detail.

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 structures the pupils' reading assessment.

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 is set up for the writing assessment - I get the pupils to keep moving a post it note with their name on it that shows they are moving up the success criteria.

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 supports pupils with their planning so that they can prepare for 'controlled assessment' type conditions. By the end of the year, they will be prepared entirely.

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 planning.

with LOs: To investigate the themes in Of Mice and Men. To analyse the vulnerability of characters in Of Mice and Men.

This is one activity that I have uploaded that is also part 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 is a worksheet about language use in schools - an activity for the pupils to complete standalone.

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 More…in a list. This one is a lesson that is a front slide with a reminder of how the planning sheet can be used. Obviously must be turned off before pupils start!

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 More…in a list. This one is a lesson that I set up to teach my own class and another class so that they could record the lesson. The pupils had a 20 minute lesson with me and then went off to another English teacher so that they could analyse a variety of contexts and had two transcripts to work with.

This is one of a series of lessons that I am stilll creating for my current year 11. It is for the Shakespeare and Poetry Literature assessment. Puils will work entirely in their books during the teaching of the unit, to then plan their essay on the planning sheet. This lesson is about the courtly love tradition at the time of Romeo and Juliet. I usually put my resources at the end of the PP, so you are likely to find them after the last slide.

This is one resource from a full unit of lessons / resources that I have uploaded. 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 quiz on features of speach - nice little recap starter that you can use at any time.