This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Susan Hill’s ghost story ‘The Woman in Black.’ 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 Hill’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.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE 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 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.

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. 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 Dickens’ 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.

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet.' 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. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS 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 Philip Pullman’s ‘Northern Lights.’ 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.

This bundle contains 7 fantastic comprehension activity booklets - each is over 20 pages in length, and focuses upon a different popular classic text. This includes a text by Shakespeare, a play, fiction and non-fiction texts, as prescribed by the National Curriculum. The resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful activities - perfect for use throughout class reading of texts or equally in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS3 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. There are booklets included for the following texts: - The Woman in Black - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Private Peaceful - Anne Frank - Diary of a Young Girl - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Stone Cold - Much Ado About Nothing There are a huge range of activities! A PDF of each booklet is also provided, to prevent formatting issues.

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of Mary Shelley's horror classic 'Frankenstein.' The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of plot, character, context, and language, in addition to considering the key themes and ideas running throughout the text. All of the resources that you need are included in the bundle: informative and engaging whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, activities, and lesson plans. The bundle is made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, including: - The Context of Frankenstein; - Victor Frankenstein - The Tragic Hero; - Shifting Narrative Viewpoints: - Shelley's Description of the Monster; - The Monster's Murders - Justified? 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.

This engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of Roald Dahl’s ‘The Twits.’ Each of the lessons include a wide range of activities, questions and resources for each chapter. The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities. Additional worksheets and templates are also provided where needed for the creative tasks. All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are most suitable for children in lower KS2, although with minor adjustments they could be used for slightly younger and older year groups.

These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of all 15 of the ‘Power and Conflict’ poems in the newest exam board anthologies. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout teaching, or for exam revision or 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.’

This engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of Roald Dahl’s ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine.’ Double and triple lessons include questions and resources for each chapter. Chapters 1 and 2 - ‘Grandma’ and ‘The Marvellous Plan’ Chapters 3 and 4 - ‘George Begins to Make the Medicine’ and ‘Animal Pills’ Chapters 5, 6 and 7 - ‘The Cook-up’, ‘Brown Paint’ and Grandma Gets the Medicine Chapters 8 and 9 - ‘The Brown Hen’ and ‘The Pig, The Bullocks, the Sheep, the Pony and the Nanny-goat.’ Chapters 10 and 11 - ‘A Crane for Grandma’ and ‘Mr Kranky’s Great Idea.’ Chapters 12 and 13 - ‘Marvellous Medicine Number Two’ and ‘Marvellous Medicine Number Three.’ Chapters 14 and 15 - ‘Marvellous Medicine Number Four’ and ‘Goodbye Grandma.’ The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities. Additional worksheets and templates are also provided where needed for the creative tasks. All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students in upper KS1 and lower KS2 (I originally used them with year 2 and year 3 classes).

This ‘The Iron Man’ big bundle contains all of The Iron Man lessons, plus the detailed knowledge organiser and the 20-page comprehension activities booklet! The engaging and thought-provoking lessons 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.

Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students’ fundamental writing skills. Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, these lessons aim to improve students’ skills at using varied and appropriate vocabulary, connectives, sentence openings, and punctuation. Each lesson follows a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Defining; - Identifying; - 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 for use throughout the reading of all 15 of the Edexcel ‘Time and Place’ poems from the newest anthology. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout teaching, or for exam revision or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives. 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.’

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ 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 Austen’s use of language. 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. Whole-lesson PowerPoints, activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE PRIVATE PEACEFUL LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME! This engaging, varied, and informative collection of lessons is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Michael Morpurgo’s’ ‘Private Peaceful.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete the lessons 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.

This bundle contains all of the resources needed for a complete Anglo-Saxon learning sequence, including the comprehensive lesson resources and informative knowledge organiser. The series of interesting and engaging lessons aims to equip children with a solid understanding of the changes in Britain throughout the Anglo-Saxon Period. In addition to the detailed knowledge that they obtain, children also learn vital skills in constructing timelines, interpreting sources and texts and developing their understanding of chronology. Each of the resource packs are designed to cover two teaching sessions (so 10 lessons in total) and they focus on: 1.Introduction to the Anglo-Saxons; 2.Rulers and Social Structure; 3.Daily Life 4.Battles and Conflicts 5.Religions and Beliefs In each lesson, the learning is guided by a clear and colourful PowerPoint presentation, which guides students through logical, step-by-step activities. There are also clear hyperlinks for the video resources, and engaging, well-structured worksheets for the activities. The knowledge organiser includes details of well-known Anglo-Saxon leaders and people, details of Kingdoms, a map showing how the Anglo-Saxons settled, information about battles and daily life, food, clothes and an Anglo-Saxons timeline. In the past, I have used these lessons with children from across upper KS2 (years 5 and 6) however, with some adaptations they may be suitable for other year groups. All images are licensed for commercial use.

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS’ LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER, THE 30-PAGE 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 Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations.’ 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 Dickens’ 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 contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the Year 1 through to Year 6 comprehension expectations within the new 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. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts. The Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, and Year 6 Booklets (normally 2 pounds each) are all included. I’ve also thrown in a literacy writing mat for free! Examples of activities within the booklets include: - Word Tennis - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Discuss their understanding of new words, and explore the meaning of words in context’ - Conventions Bingo - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Identify and discuss themes and conventions in writing.’ - Rap Battle - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Read aloud poems, and perform playscripts.’ -Court Case: Defending a Text - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Provide reasoned justifications for your views, Explain and discuss and understanding of what has been read, including through presentations and debates, maintaining a focus on topic.’’ Plus many, many more activities (each booklet is around 20 pages in length!) All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on a separate document (included.)

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of George Orwell’s allegorical novella ‘Animal Farm.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of plot, character, context, and language, in addition to considering the key messages being offered by Orwell. All of the resources that you need are included in the bundle: informative and engaging whole lesson PowerPoints, worksheets, activities, and lesson plans. The bundle is made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, including: - The Russian Revolution; - Old Major’s Dream; - The Rise of the Pigs; - Dictatorship; - Squealer; - The Ending (Orwell’s Message) 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.

This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Arthur Miller’s play ‘A View from the Bridge.’ 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. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.