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.

Power Point of stirring images of WWI soldiers in the field. Student objectives: To be able to discuss how soldiers may have felt during ww1. To understand the daily pressures of life as a soldier.

This is 1 of 8 similar exercises that i have uploaded. There is a job description and an application form. Pupils have to read the job description and then apply the necessary details required to the application form writing. It tests reading for meaning and writing skills at functional skills level 1. This role is for a Sales Director.

This article allows pupils an opportunity to structure their analysis and understanding of newspaper articles.

With Ofsted's clear focus on literacy, these are a few slides that can be copied and pasted into any full lesson powerpoint in order to build a language starter into your lesson.

This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded for key stage 3 - aimed at level 4 writers - that are skills based but use Alice In Wonderland as their inspiration. The LOs for this one are: To be able to identify facts and opinions. To begin to explore the setting created by Lewis Carol in Alice in Wonderland.

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 matching exercise starter.

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.

Full lesson PP Music Review This is a full lesson PP that gets pupils to write a music review using the acronym AFOREST.

A lesson that explores what antithisis is and how it is used in this poem.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint with assocaited resources - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed to complete a reading assessment for APP marking for level 4 readers.

This is a full lesson PP ready to teach, although you will want to adopt it for your own context. LOs: To understand how vocabulary choices create a particular effect. Writing AF7 – To select appropriate and effective vocabulary

This is one of several resources that I have uploaded to support the teaching of the spoken language analysis. This worksheet is aimed at A/A* pupils and gets them to track how someone speaks in a text that you watch / listen to.

Just a little quiz to start / consolidate learning of text types and forms.

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. All resources are included for ease of teaching the whole lesson.

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.

These are the first 18 lessons of a scheme of work that I created last year for DNA by Dennis Kelly. It is aimed at a year 9 class, as the idea is that I am starting to prepare them for GCSE Literature. Therefore, the scheme is a mix of analysis and playing with the text too. I've used a variety of ideas to teach it. All lessons are complete lessons in themselves but you may wish to adapt / cut apart and mix them up, especially if you want to use for GCSE. The remaining lessons will also be uploaded under the same heading

These are the second half of the lessons of a scheme of work that I created last year for DNA by Dennis Kelly. It is aimed at a year 9 class, as the idea is that I am starting to prepare them for GCSE Literature. Therefore, the scheme is a mix of analysis and playing with the text too. I've used a variety of ideas to teach it. All lessons are complete lessons in themselves with the resource at the end of the powerpoint, so they are all embedded. You may wish to adapt / cut apart and mix them up.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed to teach this story. Resources and the story also attached.

This scheme of work consists of 8 taught lessons that I have uploaded under the same title as lessons 1-8. All of the resources required for each lesson are uploaded alongside the lesson for ease of finding. These lessons are aimed at C grade writers and are ideal fo year 9 writers too (level 5 and above). Based on Urban Myth inspiration, the scheme goes through the planning stages into completion and writing.