This is a lesson starter to get pupils to read the front covers of books.

A powerpoint quiz lesson revising quotations from Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Help students review their knowledge of these quotations and the characters who say them, using this fun quiz activity.

This is one of many resources, full lesson powerpoints and quizes that I have uploaded on the short story 'Through The Tunnel'. The lessons aim to encouage pupils to read the story, evaluate the ending and then write an alternative ending. Great for practising narritive and imaginative writing skills. I use it with mixed abiility year 9 pupils and APP it for a level. All resources are uploaded with the same heading for ease of search if you'd like to use them together. Pupils really enjoy this unit.

This is an activity to introduce the use of a varity of sentences - can be used as a lesson starter or as a literacy across the curriculum initiative.

This is one of the many lessons and resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Macbeth to year 7s working at level 4/5 in English. It's based on an end result of old SATs style type question that can be APP'd. This is a worksheet that is used to help the pupils get used to writing Essays, with sentemce starters etc. Title: How and why does Macbeth persuade the murderers to murder Banquo?

This is one of the homework booklets that we've created for pupils in school. The year and level is indicated in the title. It covers essential English skills to help pupils to pass their GCSE in Language. This one covers the basic Follow The Argument question.

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 starter / plenary about Frankenstein - pupils use as AFL to answer true or false - ideal; with mini whiteboards.

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. This lesson is one of serveral that create a scheme of lessons about Victorian Crime but all can operate as standalone lessons and I have uploaded them all with the same title stem for ease of finding. This lesson covers The Web and characters.

This is one of the homework booklets that we've created for pupils in school. The year and level is indicated in the title. It covers essential English skills to help pupils to pass their GCSE in Language and reading skills

Oliver Twist Chapter 2 Full Lesson PP In this lesson, pupils read Chapter 2 and analyse the quotes in it. There are a selection of quotes on the PP but you can change them to your own topic. The topic for this one is how Oliver is treated by the State or for AQA GCSE, it works perfectly for 2012 submission of identity and 2013 submission; family. L/O: To read chapter 2 in order to gather and identify quotes that will explain how the State fail to treat Oliver as an individual.

Introduction to the genre of Revenge Tragedy, with emphasis on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Powerpoint plenary activity revising the 'ingredients' of Revenge Tragedy.

I have uploaded 20 lessons in this series in total - each with it's own resources where relevant. Each lesson Powerpoint can be taught as a standalone lesson, or used within the series. These are brand new lessons and they structure the reading of the novel, whilst analysing it. Designed for AQA Literacy specification. This lesson covers the title of the same.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for key Stage 3 pupils to study this text. The lesson is ready to teach, although you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. The other lessons can be used alongside it and they can be taught together, but all are suitable as standalone lessons. This lesson covers the character and the use up building up int the text.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded on the novel Holes by Louis Sacher, ready to teach with it's resources (if aplicable). Although, you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. They can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This lesson covers comparing the film to the novel.

This is a sheet - that can easily be adapted for any speaking and listening activity at Key Stage 3 - that gets pupils to analyse their own performance.

This is one of several revision lessons that I created for the novel, in readiness for the AQA lit exam last summer. This one covers the context and the concept of the American Dream.

A complete lesson powerpoint to introduce and analyse the prologue of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Downloadable and ready to use with your class. Adaptable for students' needs.

This is a Key Stage 3 lesson that utilises recipes as a poem and uses the poem 'London Recipe' as it's stimulus. Series of activites based on picking out the key images within the poem.

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