An introductory lesson looking at language choices within poetry. Exploring the questions: How might this poem have been different if it was entitled Curse? and How does the poet choose language for effect.
Looking for better value for money? This resource is just one of the poems featured in the poetry about poverty pack priced at just £6
A KS3 unit of work focussing on poems about poverty. Each poem has its own full lesson with poetic starters and analysis of the poem focussing on either language or structure (or both). The unit mixes traditional KS3 poem with more challenging former GCSE texts.
A fully complete scheme to help prepare students for studying anthologies further up the school.
Poems included:
Blessing, Down and Out- Paddington Station, Give, The Gresford Disaster, The sad story of Lefty and Ned, Living Space, Mother to Son, Poverty, Timothy Winters, Two Scavengers on a truck...,Your Dad did what?
A worksheet full of pupil led homework activities with a tick sheet for them to show their progress. This sheet is set up for pupils studying the AQA combination of Macbeth, Blood Brothers, A Christmas Carol and Conflict poetry but can be adapted to suit other combinations.
Designed to guide high flying (self-motivated) students with their revision/ study leave timetables. This resource encourages pupils to revise key themes and quotes using mind-maps and essay plans.
A collection of quick literacy starters that can easily be dropped into the start of lessons.
Averaging five minutes each, the pack includes: sentence structures, word classes, homophones, adverbs, silent letters and apostrophes.
A full scheme of work for travel writing. Ideal for Years 6-8, this resource includes 10 hour long lessons, many of which can be developed into two full lessons, and covers all of the main areas of travel writing. The unit includes analysis of travel brochures, rhetorical devices, drama activities, formal letters of complaint and exemplar travel writing from Bill Bryson.
An assessment (plus planning grid) is also included.
An introductory resource to use at the start of a poetry unit of work.
Pupils will research the definitions of poetic techniques before showing their understanding with quick quiz questions. An ideal way to introduce the key vocabulary that pupils will need to use to discuss poetry.
A comprehensive resource with everything you need to prepare your students for this GCSE poem. Carol Ann Duffy's poem, about a war photographer developing his images, explores how the British public react to the horrors of war. Featured on AQA's 'War and Conflict' cluster, this poem shows how the photographer, editor and readers respond to foreign tragedies.
Beginning with background reading about the life of a war photographer, this resource includes iconic war photographs for class discussion and a full annotation of the poem.
Four creative writing resources to help prepare KS3/4 students for the AQA Language writing section.
Four incredible pictures introduced with literacy correction starter exercises that provide the background to each inspirational and thought provoking image.
Everything your GCSE students need to know on handy sheets.
Full details of key events and quotes for the following characters:
Scrooge
Ghosts
Bob
Fred
Tiny Tim
Plus notes on the Fezziwigs, Belle and the charity collectors.
An excellent revision resource for pupils to prepare with.
A creative writing planning mat that helps both KS3 and KS4 pupils prepare for the AQA exam question: Write a story or a description based on this picture.
This resource has three versions of the same template and can be adapted in seconds by simply changing the picture and tweaking the first box.
The worksheet is a planning grid to focus pupils on their structure, vocabulary, punctuation and sentence variety prior to producing their piece of extended writing.
A fully resourced scheme of learning to support Private Peaceful as a class reader.
15 hour long lessons are included tracking the action of Michael Morpurgo’s WWI novel. The lessons explore the themes and characters with a variety of reading, writing and discussion tasks. The scheme builds up to a reading question: Did Charlie deserve to be killed for cowardice?
Three different quiz challenges for use in form times or across school. A Geography theme quiz tests pupils on all 32 qualifying flags whilst a 32 team word search gets your class familiar with the competing teams. For real football enthusiasts, a World Cup History Quiz has 30 questions which test the knowledge of previous tournaments with questions on incredible matches, legendary players and bizarre facts from 1930 to 2018. Three great resources in one bundle!