Full lesson PP structuring Speaking and Listening\nThis is a full lesson PP with hyperlinks to a BBC Bitesize clip that structures a speaking and listening activity for GCSE pupils on what 5 items should go into a time capsule.

Descriptive Writing – Achievements\nThis is a full lesson Pp that supports pupils in writing about themselves and their aspirations for the future by showing rather than telling.

These few slides can be added to the start of any lesson to use as a settler for when the students come into the room and to incorporate literacy skills into your lesson. This particular exercise is a reading comprehension style – there is a text and; if

Literacy Starter – Holocaust textThis particular exercise is a reading comprehension style – This text is an extract about the holocaust

Using a picture and text of the Antarctica students will analyze and answer questions as they develop an understanding.

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 the differences between British and American English.

Having taught instructions, this PP sits alongside pupils as they create their own to act as a guide.

A really simple guide / tutorial that reminds pupils of what to put in posters.

This is part of a full scheme of work - all uploaded as separate powerpoints, as they are separate resources under the title 'Ballads Full Scheme of Work; Lesson Number' There are up 14 lessons, but the last three are covered by a writing frame as lessons 11 - 14. It's aimed at Key Stage 3 and was written in my PGCE year, so may need some updating and tying into APP criteria to upgrade it, but it's certainly a good starting place.

A PP given to students to remind them of the basics of punctuation - can also be taken apart and added to your own lessons.

This is a full powerpoint lessons, ready to teach but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context. This lesson covers the sci fi genre and gets pupils to understand what it is - aimed at year 7.

The Monkey's Paw - Full lesson PP Lesson This is one lesson of 8 separate Powerpoints that compile a Key Stage 3 scheme of work that leads to an assessment that can be leveled on The Monkey's Paw. All of the lessons have been uploaded separately under the same title as above.

Writing To Describe Techniques & Stimulus PP This is a full lesson PP on the topic of writing to describe - I've uploaded 13 in total from this series and all have avrious different stimuli but use the same techniques of appealing to the senses and covering writing techniques. Alll can be used together or as standalone - just may need some adapting to your own topic.

Pullman's Frankenstein - SOW - Full lesson PP This is lesson 1 of a full scheme of work with 12 lessons - all created on pp and uplaoded separately - The scheme results in pupils writing their own gothic play and performing it to the class. ideal for Level 4/5 readers and writers and great for a Speaking and listening activity. 12 lessons plus resources all uploaded.

This is an English Full lesson PP on Conventions - that uses Christmas as it's context for teaching the meaning fo the word. Based on 'Santa Claws&' by Paul Jennings.

Reading Challenge Lesson 12 These are a series of lessons and pps that were designed to support the delivery of the Dfes unit of work on Reading Skills. There are 12 lessons altogether and i have uploaded them all as separate entities as each can be used as a standalone lesson or you can use all 12. The lessons explore different reading skills and they are aimed at year 7 readers - level 4.

This is one of a series of lessons/ activities / worksheets that I am uploading on the old AQA anthology poems. The lessons obviously have a comparative strand running through them and there are lessons for all of the poems from Cluster 1 and 2 uploaded as well as lessons that compare two poems or teach how to analyse them / compare them. Obviously no use for the old spec, but entirwely useful for the poetry comparison piece of controlled assesment in the new AQA spec.

AQA New Spec Comparing Poetry Scheme Essay Plan. This is the plan used with 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.

A worksheet for pupils to help them to look at the context of the text.

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.