A lesson starter designed to employ Ofsted's clear focus on literacy. The resource consists of slides that can be copied and pasted into any full lesson powerpoint in order to build a language starter into your lesson. This clarifies the use of apostrophes for both the omission of letter/s in words and to mark the possessive case.

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 introduces the genre to pupils.

Designed to tie into any scheme of work on Greek Mythology.

This is a full and detailed lesson that covers the psychology of colour, image use, denotation and connotation. Ideal for media Studies as well as English. For English specifically, it is designed to support pupils when writing about Presentational devices and features.

This is another example of work completed in year 9 to prepare pupils for assessment at GCSE - so it is more structured than controlled assessment allows for. However, this is based on the old specifications with an ora assessment for reading - so will need to be tweaked. Using a range of different activities, this assessment picks out key language fro the prologue and makes up a full morning of activities for English students.

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 about Slavery and I have uploaded them all with the same title stem. This lesson is covers the plantations and how to use sources.

This is a full lesson plan on how to write details where you show the reader without directly telling them. I usually embed my resources at the end of the PP, so if there are any to go with this lesson, you are likely to find them after the last slide.

This is one of many lessons and resources that I have uploaded on Russel's Blood Brothers for the AQA Lit specification. This is great as a whole class plenary and follows the format of Who wants To Be A Millionaire.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - on the different styles of writing that pupils are expected to learn at key stage 3.

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 reading and analysis of 'Listen and I'll Come To You'

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 2 and the use of contrast.

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 worksheet is an exercise to chart the emotions and changes in Lady Macbeth.

The Crucible – Elizabeth & John Proctor This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded on the Crucible. The lessons are PowerPoints that are ready to deliver – but you may wish to update them for your own context. This lesson has lesson objectives of: To be able to explore how tension and conflict are created through language, structure and form. To develop understanding of how the social and historical context impacts on Act 2.

English Functional Skills Lesson 1 Level 1 and 2 These are lessons that are aimed at NC level 5 /6 / GCSE D/C learners who are trying to get Level 1 / 2 in Functional Skills English. I will uploaded as many lessons as I can find. I certainly have the first 4 of this unti that encorporates a little Maths but predominantly English. These lessons look at the notion of family and marriage and whether or not marriage is still relevant.

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 many lessons that I have uploaded on The Slave Trade for Key Stage 3 pupils in year 8. All of the lessons can be taught together, but each covers a topic so can also be picked up separately. For ease of locating, the title stem is the same: ' Slave Trade'. This is a full powerpoint lesson, ready to teach, but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context and any resources are also uploaded with it. This lesson is an introduction to Slavery and it is aimed at level 3 /4 students.

This is a lesson that can easily be set for cover for GCSE exam practise. The LO is:To revise how to plan for and how to write a non fiction text.

This is a printable guide of ideas for the teaching of Shakeapeare - designed for English PGCE students and NQTs.

This resource has a series of questions that pupils are asked to answer using PEE

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 resource is a cloze exercise for the plot.