This is a Full Lesson PP on Formal / informal writing - designed to encourage pupils to know the differnce.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed to help pupils to rewrite a fairy tale in the gothic style.

Full lesson Courtly Love Tradition This is a full lesson PP on the Courtly Love Tradition. It’s only a starting point as I used it when I was unqualified some years ago but gives some basic information and can be adapted.

Full lesson PP Life of Shakespeare This is a full lesson PP on the life of Shakespeare. It’s only a starting point as I used it when I was unqualified some years ago but gives some basic information and can be adapted.

These are a series of tasks set up for pupils to complete and then present back to the rest of the class.

Taken from AQA GCSE exam previous teaching, this is one of a series of lessons that I have uploaded on all of the poems from the anthology. The anthology may no longer exist in it's current form, but the poem is still valid for study and the lesson is self contained for leading analysis of the poem.

This is a lesson that introduces the drafting process for pupils to write a crime story.

Although aimed at the outgoing spec, this lesson can easily be tweeked to your own specification and it covers the demands and the expectations of the GCSE course for year 10 pupils about to start it.

There are two extracts for pupils to read here and they have to create questions to show understanding.

Pupils use this sheet to plan how to write a dual narritive

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 use of vocabulary that describes places and people in the text.

Autobiography KS3 – Using AFs In Writing This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded that are about autobiographical writing. The lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to deliver – but you may wish to update them for your own context and they can be taught together or as standalone lessons. This lesson has lesson objectives of: To be able to structure, organise and present a text; To be able to highlight a focus for my writing and assess it accurately.

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 gets the pupils to have a go at an essay quetsion under timed conditions - as practise for the exam.

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 introduces the text and focuses on vocabulary use.

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 chapter 3 and is entitled clues and predictions.

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 extending vocabulary.

GCSE Old Spec. Exam Practise scheme lesson This is one lesson from a set of 9 that have all been uploaded separately. Although, the Old specification is no longer used for GCSE, I am aware of colleagues that still use past papers for teaching the skills for the new spec. Therefore, althout these lessons may not be relevant in the mainstream, they can be adapted and still used for revision purposes.

Intro To Shakespeare Full Scheme Of Work This is a full scheme of work aimed at Year 7 for introducing Shakespeare's plays and Macbeth in particular. I have also uploaded all of the resources in one upload as well as the pps separately.

Taken from AQA GCSE exam previous teaching, this is one of a series of lessons that I have uploaded on all of the poems from the anthology. The anthology may no longer exist in it's current form, but the poem is still valid for study and the lesson is self contained for leading analysis of the poem.

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: To understand how to use a wide range of punctuation accurately.