This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded on Media and Non Fiction Texts, ready to teach with it's resources. The lessons are contextualised in the remit of 'making a band'. 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 one covers the band writing to get a gig.

Great as a recap starter.

English Lessons Selling Houses Lesson This is one of 9 lessons that have all been uploaded with their resources that use the business of selling houses to analyse writing and create writing. Reading AFs and FS indicators are used. Aimed at level English FS level 1 and 2

Amazing Places – Knowing The Levels This is a full lesson PowerPoint that is ready to teach (with resources if applicable) – although you will wish to adapt it for your own context – it’s part of a Humanities curriculum that is taught to Year 7 pupils, so covers Geography, History and Literacy skills. There are a series of lessons that I have uploaded. They can be taught as a group, or as a standalone as each is an entire complete lesson. The L/Os for this lesson are: To be able to level work accurately using my AF sheet and create a revision sheet

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.

A nice lesson that uses a pop vodeo as inspriation for other tasks. Looks at how context changes language.

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.

This is a full Lesson PP structuring research into sport's writing - it offers some examples before setting pupils off onto self research with the internet.

Do We Need ICT Writing To Argue Lesson This is one of a series of 8 lessons that have all been uplaoded on the debate of whether or not we really need ICT - The scheme goes through a series of persuasive techniques - using AFOREST - amd culilates in pupils creating their own argumenet for or against the motion. Aimed at Key stage 3 - year 8.

Harry Potter - Mad-Eye Moody: Deceased This is one lesson of several lessons that I have uploaded (with resources if applicable) on the novel harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. All of the lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to teach, although you may wish to adopt them for your own context. This full lesson covers analysing central characters.

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.

Simple lesson starter - match the image to the quote.

These are drama / tone cards that pupils use when reading to get others toguess what emotion / feeling they are trying to elicit.

Writing to persuade - Selling The School lesson. This is one lesson with resources from a scheme of work that I've delivered about informative and persuasive writing. The theme was advterising and selling the school. The lessons obviously have context specific images and detail and you will want to change these for your own delivery but there are a variety of tasks involved that hit all different types of writing and the pupils really like the real life context. This is 1 lesson of 10 that i've uploaded - each as a separate upload with resources attached as all can be taught standalone too.

This is a map designed to give pupils ideas to form writing about school - usually writing to inform or describe.

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 one of a series of lessons that I have created for my bottom set year 7 SEN class. Some of the pupils are also EAL, so there are French translations for instructions. This one is on the short story named above and gets pupils to shopw their undestanding with a storyboard - leads to changing the story.

Team based plenary that tests pupils knowledge after learning about this topic.

L/O: To be able to use skills of inference and deduction. To decipher and sort information that is relevant to you A really good lesson that needs pupils to work out what a family needs so that they can search local estate agents for a home for them.

Full lesson Philip Spencer This is a full lesson PP on Spencer. 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