This is a series of 4 lessons put together to help students to understand how to perform at level 4 in the reading section of AQA GCSE Language Paper 1. Taught to students with Grade 6 targets, these lessons are pitched with the minimum expectation of achieving Grade 5 but they are differentiated upwards to ensure that the top level criteria (level 4 for 8/9) is introduced and deconstructed. There are stretch and challenge tasks in each lesson as well as specific differentiation strategies to secure scaffolding for students that need in-class intervention. All of the resources for each lesson are on the last slides of the ppt.

This is one of a series of lessons that I have created on the character of Havisham. We use the character for an AQA Speaking and Listening Activity and create a Jeremy Kyle style adaptation. This one gets the p[upils to analyse the poem so that they can inform their character judgements - also uses PEA chain practise.

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

Inform Explain Describe Travel Writing Lesson PP. This is a full lesson PP on travel writing that uses the Capelo acrynym to teach pupils how to write their own article - tied into KS3 APP framework with AFs but can easily be adapted to KS4 for exam.

This is a full powerpoint lessons, ready to teach with any resources that are applicable attached for ease of finding. This lesson covers the langauge features used in a text.

A full lesson plan on PP on writing persuasively about anti smoking campaign,

Poetry Scheme of Work AQA Cluster 2 poems Lesson This is a series of 10 lessons that, although using all of the poems from Cluster 2, can be used with any year group to teach analysis of poems - and could even be used as prep for the unseen poem in the new Lit spec. This is a series of 10 lessons uploaded separately.

AQA New Spec Comparing Poetry Scheme lesson This is one fuly self contained lesson (with resources enclosed) of a scheme of work of 15 lessons that compare the poems Presents From My Aunts with Hurricane Hits England. It's for teaching on the new English specification question on comparing poems from other cultures.

This is a pp that teaches pupils how to write about an unseen poem - really really useful and easy for pupils to follow. L/O:To learn a structure that will help me to analyse poems

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed to draw attention to National Poetry Day but can be taught in it's own right anyway.

This is one of many lessons and resources that I have uploaded on Russel's Blood Brothers for the AQA Lit specification. This is alesson to revise the key themses and ideas of the play.

Each lesson Powerpoint is a complete lesson and it has been uploaded with all of its resources for that lesson beside it. All lessons have been saved with the same title to make it easier to search for them.

This is a full lesson Pp on differnt types of texts. You'll need some texts for the lesson, but the card sort activity is uploaded too. L/Os: To be able to identify the purpose, audience and format of a text. To be able to work in groups to analyse a text.

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

I was asked to teach discursive writing to a bunch of boys that needed to have it finished in a day. Thios is the amalgamation of a full scheme of work that i used to inspire and enthuse them. It's a bit gory - but it engaged them and got them writing!

suitable for level 3 and 4 English pupils - full lesson, plan and resources for creative poetry.

This is a full lesson on ppt. that has been put together to help students to understand how to achieve the 8 or 9 grade in English Lit. Using the ‘Lady Macbeth as a powerful woman’ question from AQA, this lesson deconstructs specifically how students can use the extract to go ‘in and out’ of the text, referencing everything that would be critical to a grade 8/9 response. Success criteria: To know the criteria for level 6 responses. To understand what ‘going in and out’ of the extract means. To know how to analyse key words / phrases to Grade 8 / 9 standard. To understand the difference between quotes and references. To understand what subject terminology is. To better understand what a critical writing style is. All of the resources are at the end of the ppt.

Analysis Worksheet for Analysing Book Covers This is a worksheet that can be used by pupils for book cover analysis and writing about the messages on covers.

A little start to pop into any lesson with a remidner / exercise on how to use apostrophes.

This is a full lesson that covers revising the text prior to the lit exam.