Based on the WJEC Legacy Spec. for the exams, this lesson is aimed at pupils entering for the Foundation Paper and details techniques used for writing to describe.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for Section A Coursework on The Music Industry. The lesson is 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 history of the pop video.

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 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 introduces it to pupils - ideal for year 7.

Titanic History lesson – Completing the assessment This lesson has a brief recap before setting pupils up on the assessment of Why Was The Titanic Such A Disaster?

... of Stanley's esacpe.... Pupils storyboard how Stanley escpaes from the book beofre writing about it - it becomes their essay plan. Aimed at low ability writers (3-4)

This is a full lesson powerpoint that is ready to teach on the novel Stone Cold. I have uploaded several other lessons that you could use in conjunction with it, but all are good to teach by themselves. This particular lesson can be used to structure any reading of the novel that you need to do in big chunks.

Yr 7 English Holiday Writing Lesson This is one of 5 lessons with PP and resources uploaded with the lesson on Holiday writing.

Interactive powerpoint quiz with Shakespeare quotes from the male characters in Much Ado About Nothing. Students identify the character from each slide, prior to unpicking their attitudes to women.

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 reading of chapters 5-7

This is a full lesson PP that is ready to teach as it is - although you may wish to adpat it for your own class and context. I've uploaded the others in the series with resources under the same title of 'AQA Writing Controlled Assessment'. I'm using this for teaching the AQA controlled assessment writing element of a day in the life / my story where a pupils writes from the eprspective pf being a child soldier. In theis lesson, they analyse and write their openings to the stories

This is a PP that can be added to any lesson. The slides show how to play it and then there is a link to a game that I have made online that can be played interactively.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for KS4 pupils studying GCSE Media Studies at grade U - D. The lesson is ready to teach, although you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. The lesons that i have uploaded can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome, but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This lesson covers the types of vocabulary that producers use.

This is a lesson that links to an internet tour of Shakespeare's theatre - designed to support my uploaded Inrtoduction To Shakespeare scheme of work.

This is a full lesson plan on the Media Studies Course key concepts.

A full lesson PP on writing to persuade about the cost of Christmas.

This is a full lesson powerpoint as part of all of my theory lessons on crime drama - there are more now uploaded for you to follow and use.

Reality TV – Design Your Own Show This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on the theme of Reality TV – These lessons build into a speaking and listening assessment when used together for pupils to argue for and against Reality TV, but each covers a topic so can also be picked up separately. For ease of locating, the title stem is the same: Reality TV - '. 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 gets pupils to think about the ethics of Reality TV

Selling Ice Cream – Persuasive Writing This is a full self contained lesson plan that can be used on it’s own or can be taught as a full scheme of work alongside the other 6 that I have uploaded. All lessons start with the name Selling Ice Cream for ease of finding. In this lesson, the L/Os are: To enhance your vocabulary by working with unfamiliar words in a piece of persuasive writing that is fit for purpose

Manchester – Victorian Children 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. This Lesson’s LO: To gain information about the lives of Victorian children in Manchester and teach others this information