This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the play, understanding the writer’s ideas within the play, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Shakespeare’s language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: Engaging Defining/ Understanding Identifying/Remembering Analysing/ Creating Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

Contains all of the Travel Writing Lessons Travel Brochure Writing! These engaging and detailed resources have been designed to make the teaching and learning of Travel Writing exciting, interesting, and easily accessible for all children. Throughout each lesson, students consider a different element of their writing (content, language, and structure) in order to produce imaginative and appropriate travel writing texts. Each lesson contains a comprehensive whole lesson PowerPoint, all the resources that you will need, and a lesson plan. Included are the following lessons: 1. Travel Writing: Crafting Imaginative Content 2. Travel Writing: Constructing Imaginative Language; 3. Travel Writing: Creating Imaginative Structures 4. Travel Brochure Writing All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint/ the bottom of worksheets.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE SKELLIG LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of David Almond’s ‘Skellig.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These colourful, comprehensive, and well-structured revision cards have been creatively designed for students securing their understanding of: -Animal Farm; -Macbeth; -Romeo and Juliet; -A View from the Bridge. Each card is visually-appealing and highly-detailed, covering aspects of each feature including a full summary, cited quotations from the play, definitions/ examples, and a consideration of audience reactions. They are tried and tested, with teachers incorporating them in revision games, using them as essay writing aids, or utilising them as home revision aids. They are provided as both PDFs (to prevent formatting issues between computers) and as Word documents (for easy editing). The packs contain revision cards on each of the main: Characters, Features of Context, Events, Themes, and Devices. I have also included the revision cards templates so that you can create your own! For any questions or comments, please contact TandLGuru@yahoo.co.uk - Many thanks!

This bundle contains each of the comprehensive and engaging lessons on poems from the AQA ‘Power and Conflict’ anthology. It contains the lessons and resources for: Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Exposure - Wilfred Owen Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy Poppies - Jane Weir In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Students will vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of poems, and analysing features of content, language, and structure. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: Engaging Defining/ Understanding Identifying/Remembering Analysing/ Creating Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities to aid the teaching of 9 different poems from other cultures. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout practicing for unseen poems, for teaching as part of a poetry unit, or to support guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives - suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate. Each booklet is provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers). Activities across the booklets are as consistent, to provide an equal understanding of each poem, and include (amongst many others): ‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’ ‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’ ‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’ ‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’

These highly engaging and purposeful lessons aim to develop a number of important creative writing skills, whilst towards an extended descriptive piece based on the ‘Seven Natural Wonders of the World.’ The lessons are sequenced thoughtfully, progressing children from their initial word level ideas, through sentence level construction, to whole-text composition. The lessons included are: Building Base Vocabulary Using the Senses Descriptive Devices Fronted Adverbials Whole Text Cohesion and Connectives Editing and Redrafting. The lessons also build children’s understanding of each of the seven natural wonders, which links well to geography/ environmental cross-curricular study. Included are each of the clear, eye-catching, comprehensive PowerPoint presentations (these will guide you through the step-by-step journey for each lesson), the worksheets/templates needed for the main activities, and the structure strip for the extended writing piece (all provided in both Word and PDF). In the past, I have used these lessons with children in lower KS2 (years 3 and 4) - the key learning is aligned with curriculum expectations for writing. All images are licensed for commercial use.

These whole class reading sessions aim to develop children’s fluency and comprehension skills, through reading a range of informative and age-appropriate non-fiction texts. The texts include an appropriate mix of topical/ current affairs-type news stories and more uplifting, light-hearted articles: -The Russia-Ukraine War; -Climate Change; -The World’s Oldest Land Animal; -Alyssa’s Revolutionary Cancer Treatment; -Sebbie Hall’s Random Acts of Kindness; -The Increasing World Population. The reading is followed by a series of activities aiming to develop children’s retrieval, explanation, inference, prediction and summarising skills. It also contains a vocabulary check immediately after the text is read to clarify any unfamiliar/ difficult language. The PowerPoint presentations guide teachers and students through each of the thought-provoking activities. The tasks are comprised of quick-check questions, solo thinking, pair/ group discussions and deeper thinking activities. The texts have been downloaded and reformatted as PDF and Word documents for ease of use, but the link for each original source is also provided on the first slide of the respective PowerPoint presentation. The sessions are best suited for children across key stage 2 (particularly years 4-6) although with minor adaptations they could feasibly be used with slightly younger and older year groups.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE KENSUKE’S KINGDOM LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET AND THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding structural and language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: Engaging Defining/ Understanding Identifying/Remembering Analysing/ Creating Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing resources offer a complete reference point for KS1 children when writing for a range of different poetry forms. The organisers are also perfect for teachers, parents and English subject leaders - aiding their planning and supporting of children’s knowledge development for the following poetry forms: -Acrostic Poems -Shape Poems -Diamantes -Haikus -Free Verse Poems Each organiser has a particular focus on the content, language and structural features required to write effective free verse poems. They generally contain the following distinct sections: -Overview of the poetry form; -Content: What to include, the five senses, communicating a message; -Language: Word choices, word types, alliteration and onomatopoeia, punctuation checklist and word mat; -Structure: Poem length, syllables, rhyme, line lengths, line breaks; -Key Vocabulary. The resources were designed to be printed onto A3 (however can also be printed in A4) and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to).

These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for KS2 students learning or revising knowledge relating to each of the following topics: World War II; Ancient Egypt; The Solar System; Tudors and Stuarts; The Rainforest; The Romans; Ancient Greece. Each organiser contains a number of comprehensive sections explaining the key elements of the topic, timelines detailing key times and events, diagrams and images to visually aid understanding, and key facts to extend the learning of higher attaining students. The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).

This ‘The Iron Man’ lesson bundle contains all of ‘The Iron Man’ lessons, which aid students in developing a secure understanding of each of the chapters: -Chapter 1: The Coming of the Iron Man -Chapter 2: The Return of the Iron Man -Chapter 3: What’s to be Done with the Iron Man? -Chapter 4: The Space-Being and the Iron Man -Chapter 5: The Iron Man’s Challenge. In each lesson, children are guided through the lesson via a colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation, which includes a range of thought-provoking activities and model examples/ answers. The tasks are comprised of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, summarising, explaining and deeper thinking activities. Templates are also provided for a number of the creative activities. There’s a lot in the each lesson and so you may wish to either select the content that is pertinent to you/ your class or spread each lesson resource over two sessions. The resources are ideally pitched for children in lower KS2, but could feasibly be used with slightly older or younger children, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ‘UNSEEN POETRY’ LESSONS, INCLUDING ANALYSING LANGUAGE, ANALYSING STRUCTURE, ESTABLISHING CONTENT AND COMPARING POEMS, IN ADDITION TO THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER/ REVISION MAT. These engaging and varied, resources have been designed to aid students in gaining the skills and knowledge required to succeed in the ‘Unseen Poems’ element of English Literature examinations. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons and revision resources, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poems from making key inferences, understanding poets’ ideas through their use of language and structure, and structuring comparative writing effectively to offer clear, considered, qualified responses. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Engaging, comprehensive, presentations, activity resources, worksheets, copies of practice poems and lesson plans are all provided.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ANNE FRANK LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Anne Frank’s ‘Diary of a Young Girl.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key people and relationships, settings, and themes,understanding language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE WAR HORSE LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Michael Morpurgo’s’ ‘War Horse.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: Engaging Defining/ Understanding Identifying/Remembering Analysing/ Creating Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These varied and engaging resources have been designed to enhance the learning of John Boyne’s ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.’ They are perfect for aiding and developing comprehension, and also gaining a secure understanding of the social and historical context of the novel. Included in this resources bundle are: - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Comprehension Activities Booklet - 21 pages of comprehension activities aligned with the text; - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Holocaust Lesson - Enabling students to link the text to its social and historical context; - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Pointless Game - A fun and interactive way of securing understanding of the text. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat - An hugely detailed resource aiding revision of all aspects of the novel! All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited at the end of presentations and in separate documents.

These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of a range of Love and Relationships poems from the new AQA poetry anthology: - Simon Armitage - Mother, Any Distance - Lord Byron - When We Two Parted - Carol Ann Duffy - Before You Were Mine - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Love's Philosophy - Thomas Hardy - Neutral Tones In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique! Students will vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer's ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of poems, and analysing features of content, language, and structure. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE CIRQUE DU FREAK LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET AND THE POINTLESS GAME! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Darren Shan’s ‘Cirque Du Freak.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

These resource booklets based on David Walliams’ stories contain a wide range of purposeful, age-appropriate and engaging comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS2 comprehension expectations within the National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. Included are activity booklets to accompany the following texts: Bad Dad; Gangsta Granny Demon Dentist The Boy in the Red Dress Awful Auntie Ratburger Billionaire Boy Mr Stink Please note that each comprehension booklet contains the same tasks, but tailored to the characters, events and ideas in each book. Each booklet is around 20 pages in length!

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Stevenson’s language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.