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/ activities / worksheets 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.

Rime Of the Ancient Mariner full PP lesson This is one of nine lessons that form the analysis of the Rime Of The Ancient Mariner. The lessons are aimed at Key Stage 3 and have a variety of tasks in them to help support pupils in accessing the poem. They culminate in a reading assessment that is uploaded as lesson 9 and can be App'd.

Writing To Explain / Reading Texts Lesson This is one of 3 lessons that all follow on from each other about writing to explain.. The lessons go through explanation texts and you can use them for analysis and teaching the required techniques. i use it for transition for year 7 into 8.

AQA legacy spec old paper stimulus - However, the skills are still the same, so the PP can be chopped and changed and adapted to ensure that it is relevant and up to date for any language skill teaching.

This is another of my fun form time quiz' - This time on Mexico.

This is a lesson that I put together to help my year 9 pupils with their preparations for the mock exam.

Another little literacy starter that can be copied and pasted into any lesson to add a literacy element to it.

This is a PP that I used to present to OFQUAL and other manchester schools about using the functioanl skills qualifications in English - may have some good ideas for other school leaders. / Heads of English or deliverers of FS 1 and 2

General news quiz designed for form time fun... using Mike Dean's format again. If you like it / use it, please do rate it so that more have access to it. It has a very short shelf life!

This is one of my NQT training powerpoints that I have uploaded to help pupils to understand how to get pupils to be more indpendent in class. If you like it / use it or adapt it, please leave me a review. Thank you.

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 short and compuond sentences

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 using adjectives.

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.

This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded to support the reading of Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - this one has Lesson objectives of: To identify the features of a letter to a friend or relative. To work in groups to plan writing a letter.

A lesson that i have used with my bottom set year 7 to help them to work cooperatively before I started with the content. Classbuilding lesson.

LOs: To explore themes and characters in relation to Curley’s wife. To be able to explain how characters treat Curley’s wife.

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 use of colour in media and non fiction texts and denotation / connottation.

A really simple quiz that has been adapted from a worksheet that I downloaded from here that pupils can show T or F cards with.

This is a full lesson plan that I've used for teaching connectoves with cooperative learning strategies. Aimed at level 3-4 pupils.