What is this resource? It is a powerpoint which shows students how to achieve higher marks in creative writing tasks by using more advanced stylistic features such as: using a connective to start your paragraph, using dialogue/ speech to initiate a paragraph, starting a paragraph with an adverbial clause , beginning your paragraph with an adverb, starting your paragraph with a statement etc Using a question at the start of a paragraph (e.g. Who is the least important person in your life?) Who is it for? KS3 KS4 Literacy Lessons What’s included? Starter All activities (enough for 2- 4 lessons depending on the class’ ability) and guidance notes on each slide Opportunities to write independently and work in groups and self assess to improve Plenary Curriculum links? English Language Whole School Literacy Programmes Literacy Support Sessions Practical Tips? Notes are provided on each slide

What is this resource? This is a ppt that includes 5 literacy competitions (with examples/models) Who is it for? KS2 - KS4 What’s included? Competition details and models ready to be enlarged to A3 and displayed Curriculum links? English Department, Drama Department, Whole School Literacy Programmes and Literacy Support Sessions Practical Tips? The ppt contains 5 competitions with details and models ready to be enlarged to A3 and displayed

This powerpoint provide is a detailed lesson designed to teach paragraphing skills in Non-Fiction. It can be used in isolation or with the other powerpoints on my “Author Dashboard”. It includes all of the resources such as: Thinking task Starter Learning activities with all of the resources needed to make progress (including differentiation and challenge) Plenary Notes on the slides explaining how to use the resource This powerpoint is ready to go!

This powerpoint provide is a detailed lesson desgined to teach paragraphing skills in Fiction. It can be used in conjunction with the other two powerpoints (with a similar name) on my dashboard or in isolation as an isolated lesson. It includes all of the resources such as: Thinking task Starter Learning activities with all of the resources needed to make progress (including differentiation and challenge) Plenary Notes on the slides explaining how to use the resource

This powerpoint provide is a detailed lesson desgined to teach paragraphing skills in Fiction. It includes all of the resources such as: Thinking task Starter Learning activities with all of the resources needed to make progress (including differentiation and challenge) Plenary Notes on the slides explaining how to use the resource It is a bundle that is ready to go!

This essay compares ‘Quickdraw’ and ‘In Paris With You’. At the bottom there are 5 teacher comments and space for students to decide with their teacher what the overall grade should be. There is also a box for the ‘quality of written communication’ to be assessed.

These classroom posters are designed to improve the quality of student -teacher dialogue in a learning environment. They’re based on the RESPECT acronym which describes 7 behaviours of highly successful people: R - resilience E - expectations S - scanning P - pace E - entrepreneurial C - collaboration T - three mistakes or you’re not trying They can be printed of at any size (including A4 or A5 for diaries or exercise books).

This ppt contains 16 plenaries. Each slide develops the students’ ability to reflect and draw on different thinking skills. Inspired by HOM and the Learning to Learn paradigm.

This resource is 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.

This year long Programme of Study is based on a study of : Gothic Fiction Creative Writing Poetry Romeo & Juliet Non-Fiction Revision & End of Year Exam It also includes: activity suggestions lesson content suggestions Exam structures a map of the assessment objectives for the whole year lnks to AQA’s GCSE exam frames and criteria It is ideal for new HoD, departments without a HoD, or HoDs who are seeking a fresh perspective or Programme of Study. Enjoy!

This year long Programme of Study is based on a study of : Poetry Novel Study Hamlet Non-Fiction Study Revision & End of Year Exam It also includes: activity suggestions lesson content suggestions exam structures a map of the assessment objectives for the whole year links to AQA’s GCSE exam frames and criteria It is ideal for a new HoD, departments without a HoD, or HoDs who are seeking a fresh perspective or Programme of Study. Enjoy!

This year long Programme of Study is based on a study of the new linear GCSE English Course. This long term plan reflects the new GCSE Linear Exam Assessment Objectives. Students will be assessed on: Responding to GCSE fiction and non-fiction text extracts exploring creative writing based upon GCSE literary non-fiction text extracts Exploring Shakespearean tragedy: the study ofeither Macbeth or Merchant of Venice Exploring contemporary poetry: contemporary poetry (AQA Anthology) The study of the 19th century novel - the teacher’s choice Exploring and developing a viewpoint A mock GCSE summer exams It also includes: activity suggestions lesson content suggestions exam structures a map of the assessment objectives for the whole year links to AQA’s GCSE exam frame and criteria It is ideal for new HoD, departments without a HoD, or HoDs who are seeking a fresh perspective or Programme of Study. Enjoy!

This is 1-2 lessons (depending on the pace and the depth of learning required at each step) for KS3 or a low KS4 class. The lesson includes: a starter a plenary several models for comparison HW task

This sheet is useful for making the teaching of persuasive language more realistic for students. Suitable for KS3 but it is also useful for bottom set KS4 groups

This evaluation is designed to be used during the creation process or after the task is completed. It can be used with any writing to inform task and can be adapted. Suitable for KS3 or KS4.

This ppt is 1 1/2 to 2 lessons. 2 full lesson if you’re teaching a lower set because it includes a writing in practice task. It introduces the genre ‘writing to inform’ by engaging students in tasks that see them deconstruct and evaluate language, presentational layout and presentational features. This lesson leaves plenty of room to build upon this genre and is purely meant as an introduction only. The lesson includes group work, paired work and individual tasks. Also included is a: starter plenary HW task Model PEE

This worksheet includes 2 HW tasks. One is a reseacrh task and one in an editing SPaG task that requires students to also add more informative detail. Good for either KS3 and KS4.

What is this resource? It is a differentiated worksheet that teaches reluctant readers and students with low literacy skills how to break into written and visual sources so they learn to decode independently Who is it for? KS3 - KS4 What’s included? A set of analytic questions that teach students how to decode texts and images Curriculum links? Whole School Literacy Programmes and any curriculum area that draws on sources in its content

This is a ppt offering sentence starters of each thinking hat. Teachers can select hats they want the class to work from, or ask the class to select a hat before they start working etc It makes a good mini plenary task to break up a lesson into learning segments.

This resource enables pupils to self assess their PEE writing skills