Printable card sort activity, perfect as a starter or revision task for GCSE students studying Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare.

This is a full lesson Powerpoint to aid teaching narritive writing. This lesson is ready to teach, but you will want to differentaite it for your own classes. It covers the differences in genre.

This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded for Year 7 pupils with a generic theme of 'Place Poetry' running through them. All are ready to teach as standalone lessons. This particular lesson covers the vocab choices that poets make

WJEC Legacy Spec Analyse Review Comment Although this was originally created for the legacy spec., the skills in this PP lesson are still relevant as it covers how to tackle writing to analyse review and comment

Simpsons Audience Demographic This is a full lesson PP – and it ties into others that I have also uploaded – can be used as a standalone lesson and asks pupils to consider who watches the programme and why it appeals to so many people.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed for teaching descriptive skills for year 7 pupils trying to hit level 4 criteria.

Every week, we have 1 reading lesson with year 7 in English. I now like to underpn them with an objective so that their reading for pleasure has a technical focus too. This is one of my reading lessons and the focus of this one is on

This task gets pupils to look at a boring way of saying somehting and then how to make it better by using writing techniques.

This is an overview of a scheme of work on place poetry.

This is one of several resources that I have uploaded that relate to Haig and whether or not he was incompetent. For ease of locating, the title stem is the same: ' Was Haig Incompetent?, should you wish to use them together - These are from my PGCE year, so will need to be adapted and updated but I am confiedent that they're a starting point for some. This resource is a lesson that gets pupils to look at the mark scheme before having a go at the question

This is a handy little quiz where the pupils pick a colour to reveal and try to guess what's behind the image - This one is Jungle animals.

Interactive class game for teams on the above named topic.

Manchester Music SOW overview This is scheme of work overview for an English scheme of work on Manchester Music. I have uploaded all of the lessons and the resources if you would like to find them. However, this is also good for you to use as a starting point for long term planning.

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 with lessons that are contextualised around Manchester. 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 practice narrative writing to communicate information effectively

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.

Full powerpoint lesson and resources to teach KS3 exam skills, study skills and revision skills for Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare.

Writing To Describe Techniques & Stimulus PP 8 This is a full lesson PP on the topic of writing to describe - I've uploaded 13 in total from this series and all have avrious different stimuli but use the same techniques of appealing to the senses and covering writing techniques. Alll can be used together or as standalone - just may need some adapting to your own topic.

Titanic SOW for Level 2/3 pupils(in KS3) lesson This is one full lesson plan with the pp and resources (if I made them) that is part of a full scheme of work that I have uploaded. There are 18 lessons altoghter and they have all been uploaded separately. In some cases, there is only a lesson plan as I've planned it but not made all the PPs. I will add PPs as I create them. Aimed at year 7 who are below level 4 and utilises lots of Kagan practice.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for KS4 pupils studying GCSE Media Studies. 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 but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This lesson covers introduction to BB and gets pupils to analyse it.

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 gets pupils to investigate different genres in order to create fact sheets for their class