This is a Powerpoint Starter on Homophones - They're Their and There. Activity to engae pupils with the rules.

This PP structures a whole day of Speaking and Listening Activities for GCSE English - interactive and fun for pupils with all of the esources uploaded with it.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - on the skills of analysing media texts

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 another lesson that ofsted have judged as Outstanding. It contextualises the poem Havisham - offering a functional way into it by setting up pupils as social workers trying to work out what has happened to the woman and why this poem is her suicide note.

OfSted Outstanding Literacy All lessons Starter: With a new shift in focus for the 2012 framework that means that teaching and learning can only be judged outstanding if literacy and numeracy are encorporated across the curriculum, I am making a daily starter / settler activity that can be incorporated into all lessons. These mini activities are examples of a literacy activity & there is a tutorial before each. These are going to be made daily, so I'll upload them é I hope they will help other schools to boost literacy teaching. This one is about correct language use.

This is a sheet that gets pupils to think about the changes that they would make to a fairytale in order to rewrite it.

This is a simple starter activity that encourages pupils to recap the plot whilst putting the events in order.

This is a full lesson PP on Story Openings.

This is a lesson that can easily be set for cover for GCSE exam practise. The LO is:To revise how to plan for and how to write a non fiction text.

A few slides that can be copied and pasted into any full lesson powerpoint in order to build a language starter that deals with how a paragraph should be structured and when a new paragraph used. Ofsted's clear focus on literacy make these an important part your lesson.

This is a lesson that I created for an Outstanding showcase of lessons - very active and based on persuasive techniques. I usually put my resources at the end of the PP, so you are likely to find them after the last slide.

This is a full lesson Powerpoint with various interactive group activities that is designed to encourage pupils to build vocabulary for description. Tied into the writing AFs.

This is a full lesson Powerpoint that introduces the different triplets of writing and introduces a variety of different texts to pupils and culmilates in them completing some writing to describe.

This lesson is designed to help pupils think about their sentence structures. It is a full lesson PP with objective, starter, intro, development and plenary. Utilises reading image work and kinaesthetic activities to support sentence building. Based on the Titanic and part of a larger scheme of work. Pupils love it and it has proven results! Enjoy!

A series of questions and a cloze procedure gap fill exercise to consolidate learning on Shakespeare.

This is the first section of a whole scheme of work on Of Mice and Men, I created it this year, with attention to making sure that the Ofsted 2011 guidelines were being expemplified. The lessons structure reading the book from before reading to after and each of the early lessons covers different sectionhs of the book. They can all be taught togetether or you could choose to dip and pick as each can be adpated and can standalone. I can olny upload 20 bits to 1 resource feed, but the rest are on here.

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 lesson Powerpoint to aid teaching narritive writing. This lesson is ready to teach, but you will want to differentaite it for your own classes. It covers developing character.

his is an old one but there is still merit in it. From when SATs were still part of the year 9 tests, this lesson can be adapted into a written assignment when studying Macbeth. Its about how the Macbeth persuades the killers to murder Banquo.