These criteria sheets can be given to students before a task so they know what they’re working towards and then glued in under their HW for the teacher to fill in and comment on. It’s a strategic yet quick and simple way of marking HW The bank includes criteris sheets for: Creative Writing Non Fiction Writing Poetry Analysis Novel Analysis Vocabulary definitions followed by sentence creation

These assessment sheets are ideal for in-class assessements in Year 10 (in preparation for the GCSE exam in Year 11) and for Year 11 examination preparation. The criteria sheets include: Poetry (unseen and seen) Writing to Inform Shakespeare Study 19th Century Novel Study Modern Drama: Blood Brothers

Just add your name and remove the blank line, print it onto coloured card, date and sign and it’s ready to go!

Just add your name and remove the blank line, print it onto coloured card, date and sign and it’s ready to go!

Just add your name and remove the blank line, print it onto coloured card, date and sign and it’s ready to go!

Just add your name and remove the blank line, print it onto coloured card, date and sign and it’s ready to go!

This post is for display and is a simple reminder about what the teacher expects from students during group work

This 6 Hats task is designed to be a whole-school resource for analysing vusual stimulus but it can be adapted to become a kinaesthetic task too (jsut change the wording). The resource uses sentence starters for differentiation too. It can be used to analyse newspaper images, historical images, art etc and is especially good as an information gathering task before writing creatively, doing artwork or discussing/responding to historical sources. Suitable for KS3 and KS4.

Really useful when extending students’ thoughts about a subject and equally good during observations when you need to show you’re extending students’ thinking by analysing more deeply. For the mobile: print it off in colour, cut up, attach the image of the brain at the top of the mobile, hole punch the question tags and attach them to their specific red banner. Or just use it for a display that is near your board so you can refer to it repeatedly in lessons. Suitable for all year groups and all curriculum areas.

This is a simple, visual method of exploring the differences between the different grade boundaries of the new assessment schedule in English. Benefits KS3 and KS4 progression.

This booklet accompanies the Detective Fiction SOW on my page. It contains extracts to be read in lessons and HW tasks for the SOW

This is inspired by the 6 Thinking Hats paradigm except it deploys numeracy (i.e. commonly misunderstood shapes and their names) to improve students numeracy in English. Enjoy!

This resource is for a KS4 or a KS3 class. The ppt contains: A starter A plenary All learning activities A HW task Please note you will need to google a copy of the poem.

You can use this former AQA poem ‘Brothers’ as an unseen poem. The ppt includes all the resources and tasks needed for the whole lesson. This lesson can be used with KS3 or KS4 as its premise requires students to dig deeper into a poem, identify and analyse the impact of poetic devices etc. The resource includes: starter plenary all lesson activities (i.e. poetry analysis and writing tasks that could lead to essay writing) Please note: you will need to download a copy of the poem off the internet for the lesson

This resource is for an advanced KS3 group or a KS4 class. The ppt includes: a starter all learning and writing tasks a plenary Please note, you’ll need to find a copy of the poem on Google.

This resource is for an advanced KS3 class or a KS4 class. This ppt includes: A starter A plenary All lesson tasks - including a writing task Please note, you’ll need to Google a copy of the poem.

This resource is for KS3 and KS4 and is designed to generate independent work, group work skills and in the end, essay writing skills. The shapes support the development of Numeracy Across the Curriculum

This is for KS4 and KS4 and can be used in conjunction with essay writing skills

This resource is for KS4 or an advanced KS3 class as this ppt contains some challenging ideas. The resource includes: starter plenary all lesson activities (i.e. poetry analysis and parapgraph writing tasks including a model PEE answer) HW task

This is a good poem to teach to a low set GCSE group or a KS3 class. The resource includes: A starter and a Plenary Lesson activities A HW task Please note, you will need to google a copy of the poem