A Christmas Carol - Year 7/8 Unit of Work is made up of an 83-slide PowerPoint and 14 worksheets. It contains 8 lessons, each created using the 4-part lesson structure all of which can be edited and differentiated to fit your teaching needs. ‘A Christmas Carol - Year 7/8 Unit of Work’ contains a range of tasks and activities including: A Victorian Christmas Time and structure in A Christmas Carol Developing reading skills such as deduction Speaking and Listening - Scrooge on a TV talk show Exploring characters How Dickens uses language How to write about A Christmas Carol using evidence from the text Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see resources for other popular KS2/3 novels: The Silver Sword War Horse The Demon Headmaster Skellig Holes - KS3 Holes - KS2 Charlotte’s Web Billionaire Boy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section B AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section B is an 11 lesson, 163-slide PowerPoint-based teaching resource with 22 accompanying worksheets designed to help students prepare for Section B of the AQA GCSE English Language Exam Paper 1. Contents include: An introduction to the exam paper and the requirements of Section B A step-by-step guide to achieving a good grade on the exam paper How to write a powerful piece of descriptive writing How to write an effective story opening Understanding how the mark scheme is used to assess your work To preview a selection of pages from ‘AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section B’ in detail, please click on the images. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar AQA GCSE Exam Prep resources: AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section A AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section A (Additional Prep 1) AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1, Section A (Additional Prep 2) AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1 AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 2, Section A AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 2, Section B AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 2 AQA GCSE English Language Exam Preparation - Paper 1 and Paper 2 AQA GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry

FOLKTALES AND FABLES This unit of work is designed to cover reading and writing using folktales and fables at Grade 2/3 level. ‘Folktales and Fables’ is a complete unit of work including a teacher overview, detailed activities, a 58 slide PowerPoint and 13 accompanying worksheets. The resource includes a range of lessons and activities for Grade 2 and Grade 3 students of all abilities. The PowerPoint uses bright color, large and attractive fonts, vibrant imagery, sound, video and easy to follow, child-friendly language. Activities include: Exploring and discussing folktales and fables Discovering multi-modal texts - books, videos, cartoons and online storybooks Individual, pair and group work How to analyze characters - goodies, baddies and magical characters Hotseating and role play tasks to develop understanding of character Sequencing and storyboarding How to plan a story using the story mountain How to begin a narrative Writing task - how to write a folktale Teaching notes for lessons and assessment 58 slide PowerPoint presentation 13 pages of worksheets/planning documents to accompany the PowerPoint

Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl contains a variety of activities designed to help children understand the book's plot, characters, language, and themes. Includes: - A unit of work with 11 lessons - A Roald Dahl biography, a video by Michael Rosen, a comprehension task and a class game - Reading, writing and speaking and listening activities - Developing making predictions skills using book covers (images, title, author, blurb) about plot, characters, themes and genre - Exploring how Roald Dahl creates characters - Writing-frames to help children write about characters - Examining Roald Dahl's use of language - Creating a comic strip version to asses understanding of the plot - Tips for tackling new words - Cross-curricular content - Endangered species (Geography, Citizenship, nature and the environment)

The Twits by Roald Dahl Teaching Unit - 72 slide PowerPoint, 13 worksheets and unit overview The Twits is a brilliant scheme of work for low ability learners featuring a series of detailed lessons designed to develop pupils’ reading and understanding skills. The resource covers key areas required by the national curriculum and includes a range of activities: A brief biography of Roald Dahl with a short film by Michael Rosen A nine lesson scheme of work overview using the 4 part lesson structure Exploring - making predictions using the title, blurb and front cover Descriptive writing study - character portraits using description from the text Analysis of Mr Twit and Mrs Twit How Roald Dahl creates sympathy Storyboarding, comprehension and cloze exercises Writing empathetically as Muggle Wump Studying Dahl’s use of language - effective adjectives and verbs Understanding unfamiliar words - using a dictionary Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more resources for Roald Dahl books: Boy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Fantastic Mr Fox The Magic Finger

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (97-slide PowerPoint and 15 worksheets) is a brilliant Year 4/5 English scheme of work featuring a series of 11 lessons designed to enhance and develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl) includes a fully editable PowerPoint presentation with a wide range of activities and lessons for pupils of all abilities such as: A brief biography of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory author Roald Dahl with a short film about his life narrated by Michael Rosen An eleven lesson scheme of work overview/plan using the four-part lesson structure Exploring the text - making predictions using the title, blurb and front cover Descriptive writing - creating characters and settings Analysis of key characters in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory including Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka How Roald Dahl creates suspense and sympathy in the novel And much more! Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more resources for Roald Dahl books: Boy Fantastic Mr Fox The Magic Finger The Twits

War Horse War Horse is a unit of work containing a 142-slide PowerPoint, 14 PDF worksheets and 13 lessons. This scheme of work explores the novel chapter by chapter, analysing the book’s plot, characters, themes and language through a range of engaging activities. These teaching resources can be used with Year 5 or Year 6 (Upper KS2) or with a lower ability Year 7 group either as a whole class text or as part of a guided reading programme. Below are examples of the activities contained in the lessons. Comprehension questions Chapter by chapter activities to consolidate understanding Research task – World War One Making predictions about War Horse using the cover, title, author and blurb Exploring and discussing themes Character analysis of Joey, Albert, Father and Captain Nicholls Understanding the features of a novel – how does Michael Morpurgo use language and narrative structure in War Horse? Close analysis of language in key scenes Role play and hot seating activities Understanding War Horse’s characters through empathetic writing – diary writing Developing inference and deduction skills Writing a newspaper story about key events in the story Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see resources for other popular upper KS2 / lower KS3 novels: Holes The Silver Sword The Demon Headmaster Skellig Charlotte’s Web Billionaire Boy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory A Christmas Carol

The Merchant of Venice is a 143-slide PowerPoint-based unit of work with 9 accompanying worksheets. It contains a progressive series of lessons that develop pupil knowledge and understanding of plot, characters, themes, context and language. This KS3 unit contains 12 lessons which cover a range of activities, including: Understanding the play’s plot Analysing the characters Exploring Shakespeare’s language and use of imagery Discussing the key themes and ideas of The Merchant of Venice Studying stagecraft - how Shakespeare creates and resolves conflict Context - women’s rights, Christianity and antisemitism in Elizabethan England Comprehension questions (with model answers provided) for each act. And a lot more. Click the images to preview this unit of work for The Merchant of Venice. Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for more GCSE English Literature drama resources: An Inspector Calls Blood Brothers Macbeth Romeo and Juliet The History Boys The Tempest

Functional Skills: Reading This teaching resource is a detailed unit of work made up of an 88 slide PowerPoint presentation, 32 worksheets and a unit overview with 9 step by step lessons. All lessons are structured using the four part lesson plan (starter, introduction, development and plenary) and all can be tweaked and edited to suit your specific teaching needs. It includes: Full unit of work overview An introduction to Functional Skills Reading An examination of the features of written texts How to adapt writing to a particular audience and purpose How to find information quickly - skimming, scanning and highlighting texts Retrieving information from a text The use of presentational devices and the layout of a text Locating and responding to information in charts and tables An exemplar functional skills reading task Functional Skills reading assessment criteria

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - KS3 Unit of Work (14 lesson unit of work, 133-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 24 worksheets) This unit is perfect for either a high ability Year 7 group or a Year 8/9 class. It contains a series of engaging lessons that explore the plot, characters, themes and language of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream in detail. Lessons cover: Elizabethan theatre and Shakespeare Analysing the characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream Examining structure Analysing language Key themes Shakespeare use of comedy Extension activities, questions, and video links And much more!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Year 5/6 Unit of Work (131-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 20 worksheets) This 14-lesson Year 5/6 unit of work is made up of a series of progressive lessons that explore the plot, characters, themes and language of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare for Year 5/6 pupils. The 14 lessons contain a variety of activities for learners of all abilities and cover: The Elizabethan theatre and Shakespeare Exploring the characters from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare’s use of structure The play’s language and imagery Diary writing The play’s main themes The comedy of Shakespeare - creating and resolving conflict Video and audio to help UKS2 learners understand key parts of the play Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for more KS2 Shakespeare resources: Macbeth - Year 5/6 Romeo and Juliet - Year 5/6

Functional Skills: Speaking and Listening This Functional Skills (Speaking and Listening) teaching resource is made up of a fully editable 78 page PowerPoint presentation, 16 accompanying worksheets and a detailed unit of work with step by step lessons. The resource contains 7 lessons, all of which are structured using the four part lesson plan format. Functional Skills: Speaking and Listening includes a variety of engaging tasks and activities and covers: Verbal and Non verbal communication Rhetorical devices and target markets Analysing TV shows Dragons' Den and The Apprentice Creating and delivering a sales pitch Using Functional Skills criteria to self and peer assess