I am working with an exceptional trainee at the moment & we are promoting the work of author Roger Hurn. He uploads his work to the TES é we have downloaded it for our level 2 é 3 Year 7s. This lesson is lesson 2, where pupils turn the events of his story into news writing. The audio for More… this lesson can be downloaded from Roger, here: http://www.tes.co.uk/ResourceDetail.aspx?storyCode=6206056

This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded to support the reading of Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - this one is a reading assessment based on the text for level 3/4 readers.

Every week, we have 1 reading lesson with year 7 in English. I now like to underpn them with an objective so that their reading for pleasure has a technical focus too. This is one of my reading lessons and the focus of this one is on connotations.

This is one of a series of lessons that I have created for my bottom set year 7 SEN class. Some of the pupils are also EAL, so there are French translations for instructions. This one is on homophones

This is one of serveral lessons that i have uploaded from this year 9 scheme. The premise of our year 9 curriculum is that we start to get pupils used to the GCSE controlled assessment model by teaching them the skills that they need to pass Lang and Lit. This scheme covers Media and Non Fiction and this lesson can be taught alone or with the others. In this lesson, pupils look at text types.

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 covers developing a narrative out of one of the poems.

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 covers comparing Hitcher and Stealing as poems.

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 di More…scursive 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 analysis of the effects of writer's choices.

This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded from this year 9 scheme. The premise of our year 9 curriculum is that we start to get pupils used to the GCSE controlled assessment model by teaching them the skills that they need to pass Lang and Lit. This scheme covers Media and Non Fiction and More… More… this lesson can be taught alone or with the others. This lesson covers the use of presentational devices.

This is one of serveral lessons that i have uploaded from this year 9 scheme. The premise of our year 9 curriculum is that we start to get pupils used to the GCSE controlled assessment model by teaching them the skills that they need to pass Lang and Lit. This scheme covers Media and Non Fiction this lesson can be taught alone or with the others. In this lesson, the pupils have a go at writing their APP assessment.

Writing To Argue / Reading Texts Lesson This is one of 5 lessons that all follow on from each other about writing to argue. The lessons go through arguments and counter arguments and you can use them for analysis and teaching the required techniques. i use it for transition for year 8 into 9.

This is one of a series of worksheets that is used over each lesson to help pupils to write a response to a question about the play 'Our Day Out'. Each lesson is split by each paragraph of the essay and their is a guide for each paragraph. All resources ahve been uplaoded with the same title for ease of finding if you want to combine them, rather than use as 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 in a list. This one is a lesson that covers writing analysis.

These are a series of tasks that I used to recreate a work scenario for pupils by giving them the memos and asking them to create a product. The other resources help them to market their product.

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.

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.

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.

I usually show these images with sombre music playing to introduce the topic - tied into BITSP novel.

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. I've uploaded lots of lessons and some that follow on from each other if you would like to use them all. Each has the same start to the title for ease of finding. This lesson covers the idea of home in relation to the novel.

This is a scheme of work that covers the above named book. I have also uploaded all of the Pps for the novel with the resources as separate uploads.