Dickens - Oliver - Plot Close Exercise

This is one of several lessons that I am uploading aimed at working with different types of Media and non fiction texts. This particular lesson looks at the different ingredients of texts.

This is a Who wants To be A Millionaire based on poetry techniques and pre 1914 poems.

Worksheet that introduces the different types of newspapers.

Amazing Places – Describe Julius Caesar’s Death 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 describe the murder of Julius Caesar

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.

Autobiography Full Lesson for Level 3 /4 writers This is a fully self contained lesson that is part of a scheme of 7 that have all been uploaded separately under the same title. The scheme is aimed at level 3 and 4 writers and goes through the Autobiography henre before teaching pupils how to write an extract for their own. Also uploaded is the same scheme for level 5 writers.

Functional English Speaking & Listening - lesson There re 4 lessons altogether - numbered 1 - 4 that have been uploaded. These lessons use the idea of the true meaning of Christmas to get pupils discussing it - then to prepare a grpuo presentation that the whole class completes and marks.

Amazing Places – Baseline Assessment This is a resource that is ready to use as a baseline assessment for humanities– 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 alongside this assessment.

This is a full lesson that sets up a speaking and listening task against the AQA speaking and listening criteria.

Cream Cracker Dramatic Monologues lesson extra This is part of a full series of 6 lessons and resources that have all been uploaded. Each lesson is uploaded as a resource and they are with resources where appropriate. Additional resources have also been uploaded as one upload.

Very simple activity - ideal as a starter / plenary on language use to design a slogan.

This is one of my staff training tools - I've uploaded lots of them all under the whole school / cpd in school / staff training banner - so, if, like me, you have to organise staff training, you can have a look at all of mine and use them as a springboard. This is one on what presence is and how it can help in the classroom

This is something that i use with new classes to enourage them to find links between their identities. Full lesson on who they are and what they are all about - creating their own identity poster.

This is a full 2 hour training session that I designed for a local college when the framework changed for English and post 16 education. It was designed to help those delivering English get some ideas on how to make their lessons outstanding. Lots of ideas are included and this can easily be cut apart to be used for other subjects or across the school. I have also uploaded a very similar powerpoint for 11-16 schools. This one refers to the ofsted criteria for post 16 education

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 one of a series of lessons 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.

This is one of several resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Pre1914 poetry. This is taught to develop pupils comparing skills and would be relevant to the AQA new specification for language and poetry. This particular resource is a lesson PP, that coversthe two poems named above.

This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on the theme of apartheid for completeing GCSE controlled assessment. 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: ' Apartheid Controlled Ass'. 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 introduces a variety of sources for pupils to work with.

This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on the theme of Crime and Punishment for the GCSE course. 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: ' Crime & Punishment - '. 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 covers how villages were policed in the 1500s / 1600 s