A mini scheme of work focussing on some creative writing and EDUQAS fiction reading style questions of gothic texts. These lessons helped my low ability year 9 class access the texts and make informed inferences about them.

Perfect for revision of key characters and some of their most important quotations along with pertinent symbols and their significance.

Lots of different ways into the poetry set in the anthology. Also opportunities to weave in writing skills provided. This scheme helped my top set 10s gain independence when exploring the poetry and the examples provided allowed them to understand how to structure and complete high level responses. I've also included some of their class notes which are quite illuminating!

A handy revision guide to help pupil track the main characters and their individual development through the narrative. Has worked really well with a range of year 10 and 11 classes I teach as they can contain all their notes on the main characters in one place an easily track their progression.

A wide rage of activities included which have helped my middle ability year 8 class access and engage with The Tempest. The resources included cover acts 1 and 2.

This lesson was used to consolidate my middle ability year 11 students' knowledge of the WJEC Poetry Anthology as they prepared for their GCSEs. Having studied the entire poetry selection over years 10 and 11, the pupils wanted to revise the entire selection whilst also tackling planning and preparing for the essay style question. A quick visual starter using imagery associated with the poetry provoked pupils to consider the key symbols prevalent in the poems before they worked in groups to create exam style questions and plan together. The challenge was then increased when the pupils were tasked with choosing two of the poems at random and creating an individual response linking the two poems together.

This lesson was delivered to my middle ability year 11 class as they were preparing for their GCSEs and it focused on consolidating their knowledge of the WJEC Poetry Anthology having studied the entire collection in years 10 and 11. This lesson proved successful as it suited the desires of the class, who in the final few weeks, sought ways to revise the literature course whilst also having the opportunity to challenge themselves through conversing with others. As the end of the lesson, all pupils had a completed jigsaw linking the 18 poems together under one of the headings of content, context, language and structure. The three other members of their team completed the other headings and pupils could photograph one another's work for a handy revision tool. The same lesson could easily be adapted to other poetry collections or be used for characters or themes/symbols in other texts.

This lesson worked really well with my high ability year 7 group and gained some excellent feedback following an observation. The lesson explores the real life tragedy that struck Jean-Dominique Bauby and uses this to challenge pupils to consider their communication skills. The lesson is carefully chunked with short amounts of time allocated to each activity to extend the challenge further. It also provided some great opportunities for SMSC links to be made in class too.

This quiz was used in the final days of term before we broke up for the summer and proved really popular with students. It can be easily adapted to make it more up to date or could be a fun form time activity in the mornings.

This lesson challenged my middle ability year 9 pupils to consider connotations, select and retrieve information in a set amount of time and identify key moments from across a text. This worked well to consolidate some of those important reading skills we had been working on as we familiarised ourselves with the WJEC Fiction Reading paper format while also allowing them so additional creativity as the term drew to a close.

This lesson allowed my middle ability year 9 students to begin to display their own personal responses towards a text whilst also tracking through an extract. The lesson encourages students to deal with the entirety of the extract and provides examples for those who find this activity particularly challenging.

This lesson helped my middle ability year 9 class to gain confidence in deciphering the significance of symbols, familiarising themselves with unseen texts and understanding how to go about tracking the narrator's shifts in attitude throughout the text. The work with the emojis proved extremely helpful for pupils and saw them explore a wider range of attitudes than I have ever previously noted - it also provoked quite a unique opportunity for dialogue to arise between the pupils too.

This lesson helped my middle ability year 9 students to consolidate their knowledge of the importance of observation skills, select and retrieve skills and embedding quotations. In addition to this, it also developed their confidence with higher level vocabulary and allowed them the opportunity to consider what key vocabulary means within its specific context.

This lesson helped my middle ability year 9 class to consider their observation skills in exploring a 5 mark mood and atmosphere style question from the WJEC fiction reading paper. The lesson developed to build pupils' confidence with a text we had previously explored for select and retrieve questions by building the layers of their response through discussion, embedding quotations and 'walking through' the extract. The brief sample response at the end of the PowerPoint provided further reassurance to pupils who felt the task was more difficult than they could manage by highlighting strengths of the response and illustrating how the embedded quotations they had previously selected could be used as a starting point to a more developed response.

A lesson that explores the select and retrieve skills essential for WJEC Fiction Reading paper. The lesson was delivered successfully to a middle ability year 9 class who enjoyed the exploration of a different culture, consideration of African proverbs and development of key exam skills needed to gain confidence before tackling the more challenging questions later in the paper.

A selection of ten lessons for the opening chapters of Lord of the Flies. This has been designed with my low ability year 10s in mind and as a result is quite structured, providing lots of opportunities to discuss and see example/scaffolded material. The lessons provide higher level vocabulary to develop pupils confidence, a mix of individual, paired and group work along with some artistic opportunities to explore the first four chapters of the novel. All resources are numbered.

A challenging lesson used for my high ability year 11s to consolidate their knowledge of Simon throughout the text. Pupils were encouraged to rapidly recap on their knowledge of this pivotal character in an interactive starter, this was further strengthened through the use of the board game (need some dice for this section!) which also acted as a great visual aid for their revision before settling into analysis based upon a sample paper. All resources are included - the board game is the final slide on the PowerPoint and could be used in a multitude of ways - paired or group work for example.

A powerful lesson that simultaneously helped me to develop my middle ability year 10 class' knowledge of the plot whilst also allowing them the opportunity to engage with exam skills as they were preparing for assessments. A cloze procedure task is included to speed up the group's knowledge of the text but could also act as a handy recap tool before the real hard work began! Lots of support materials are included along with an example introduction, example analytical paragraph and selection of Piggy related quotations. These are all of quite a sophisticated manner in order to promote challenge within this middle ability set but could very easily be adapted for differing class groups. All resources are included at the end of the PowerPoint.

A lesson that provoked a lot of thought in my middle ability pupils as to the struggle for power and significance of the symbol of the sacrificed pig's head in chapter 8 of the text. A focus is placed upon higher level vocabulary (as Eduqas award 5 marks for that skill on this question!) along with a thorough exploration through discussion of the metaphorical nature of the pig's head. My pupils particularly enjoyed annotating the image of the pig's head with information from our whole class discussion before using a different colour to add quotations and analysis of language. All resources are include at the end of the PowerPoint.