Teaching a 20 minute descriptive writing lesson? This resource will be very useful for you. Outline: Students have the challenge of using features of descriptive writing to improve a piece of writing they have produced within the first five minutes of the lesson. There's even an opportunity for peer assessment. This resource has been set up for use with a year 7 class but can be adapted to suit alternative year groups.

Lesson graded as outstanding during a recent interview. Outline: Students are responding to the poem 'Funeral Blues' in an imaginative way. Please see footnotes for instructions as to how to use each PPT slide.

This resource includes: - Venn Diagram - Copies of both poems - Ideas linked to both poems Instructions: Print the resource onto A3 paper (one set of copies per student) Students can work in groups or pairs to annotate the poems using the prompts provided for lower ability or without prompts for higher ability. Students then arrange green statements in the correct places on the Venn diagram and complete add quotes from the poems where needed.

Full lesson PPT allowing students to focus on AO1, AO2 and AO3 in relation to English Literature Paper 2 Section B: Studied Poetry from the Power and Conflict selection. By the end of the lesson students will have completed a comparative written response.

Language and structural analysis skills are developed in this lesson. This lesson will target AO1 and AO2: students will develop an informed personal response (AO1) and analyse the form and structure of Storm on the Island. My Year 10 class enjoyed this! Resource links will be on the notes sections at the bottom of each relevant slide.

Language and structural analysis skills are developed in this resource . This lesson will target AO1 and AO2: students will develop an informed personal response (AO1) and analyse the form and structure of Storm on the Island. My Year 10 class enjoyed this! Resource links will be on the notes sections at the bottom of each relevant slide.

End of Unit Assessment: Compare the ways poets present ideas about power in ‘The Prelude’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’

This resource acts as a group or independent activity to prepare students to compare two poems Give by Simon Armitage and The Hunchback in the Park by Dylan Thomas . This resource includes - ready to print and use Word documents - venn diagram - statements which students can cut and sort to match the correct sides of the venn diagram Please note: This resource is best used when the venn diagram is photocopied on A3 and the statements photocopied to A4.

AQA Literature poems for the Literature Paper 2 Exam: Modern Texts and Poetry This resources includes: 3x PPT lessons

A full PPT lesson exploring how John Agard uses regular and irregular rhyme scheme to present the significance of social and historical context of the poem. All images have been referenced in note section of each relevant slide Poems: John Agard: AQA website all rights reserved to AQA Paul Laurence Dunbar: Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. 1640. Harriet Beecher Stowe

This resource includes: 1x PPT 3x reading extracts

A short series of lessons to introduce the new style of AQA questioning to a new GCSE English class. Q1: True or False statements, Q2: Summarising an article, Q3: Writer's use of language and Q4: Comparing Writers ideas and perspectives. The texts are non fiction and are based around the theme of crime and punishment.

Hatchet lessons taught to year 7's. Also includes a mini author study!

Second part of Wonder resource collection which has been set and used with my low ability year 9 class. The mini reading task is easily adaptable. The independent learning map was set to encourage students independent study for the rest of the text.

Scheme of work taken from Colins Readers as found from TES. PPT's are tailored and adpated to some areas of the scheme. Learning focus on language analysis, writing triplets, character development, writers intention and such like. Please do leave comments.

Selection of lessons for year 9 mixed ability class on the topic of gothic horror. Lessons are based on Edgar Allan Poe's &'The Black Cat&';. Students use PEE to analyse and explore the use of gothic language, create storyboards, and design their own gothic book cover. Please leave constructive comments. Enjoy!

Resources based on Bram Stoker's Dracula .

Really useful non fiction skill building worksheets sutiable for homework or classwork. Persuasive, descriptive, and Argumentative, writing. These resources can be easily adapted to suit any lesson that you have in preparation for the exams. Grades need to be adapted to suit the new GCSE specification.

A complete set of Powerpoint resources to enage year 7 students with a selection of scenes from The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Assessment task was based on students analysing the language used by Ariel during the opening of the play where Ariel expresses excitement towards Prespero after creating the storm.

President Barac Obama's Speech to youth on responsibilty. PPT Lessons have been created by myself and have been adapted from a scheme of work found on TES. I felt that Barac Obama's speech on responsibility was more suitable to the students in my class so I did not do the 'Yes We Can' speech as directed in the scheme of work. SOW AND WORKSHEETS attached are from another helpful candidate from the TES