Is Curley's Wife really that bad? This lesson includes some outstanding resources that use differentiated questioning and focus to meet the needs of ALL learners. The activity worksheets are classified in target grades so that you can group students according to ability and includes a 'Magpie' activity for your very most able. This lesson draws on a range of pedagogical practices in order to achieve outstanding progress for ALL. If you like this resource and want more on OMAM follow me here and on Twitter @jomarsh1.

This bespoke resource on Blake’s The Tyger is designed for use with the Edexcel IGCSE curriculum but is equally useful in teaching Unseen Poetry skills required across all of the IGCSE and GCSE English specifications. These resources are designed for a low/middle ability group and as such are highly supported and differentiated. Challenge/extension tasks are included here and every step of the process is checked for understanding, reinforced and modelled to ensure all students make maximum progress. Tasks include individual work, paired work, whole group work and peer ‘teaching’ (at a low level, but is designed to encourage students to become independent learners). My students enjoyed the variety of tasks included here and I could really see progress in terms of being prepared to ‘try’ out plausible answers based on this poem. I hope your students take as much from this resource as mine did! If you like this resource then you might also like these: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/igcse-poetry-not-waving-but-drowning-by-stevie-smith-cie-syllabus-0475-or-unseen-poetry-12168763 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/la-belle-dame-sans-merci-by-john-keats-11546112 Do check out my shop to see the full range of resources on all things English! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/The_English_Tutor

An outstanding observation lesson based on David Didau's Slow Writing Technique. These resources include an exam style starter activity, exemplar writing and activity, strategies for improving writing, progress checker, peer assessment and a lesson plan. I have used this lesson several times and every time get excellent evidence of progress across a full range of age groups....

A complete 4 week Transition or Introductory Unit of work for KS3. This is engaging with lots of interesting activities to complete and ending with the creation of a 'Detective Game Board'. My students loved this scheme of work and it enabled us to set classroom rules for learning within a relaxed bubble of learning. The resource includes week by week powerpoints plus extracts, homework and an easy to follow scheme of work.

Teaching students through creative and engaging methods is at the forefront of my teaching approach. As a GCSE text this secondary teaching resource is a fun way of refreshing knowledge and revising quotations whilst promoting longer term recall. In keeping with the popular Escape Room format, this resource tests and revises student’s knowledge and incorporates use of basic maths and linguistic methods. This GCSE resource asks questions based on the first two chapters of this text and primarily focuses on knowledge of Silas himself before considering themes and contextual issues. This would work really well as both a mid course revision task or a ‘return to school’ hook to tempt any reluctant returners to refocus and engage. This is a wholly inclusive activity that encourages team work and celebrates successes The resources provided include the link to the Escape Room, a powerpoint version of the quiz and an answer guide for the teacher, this combination means that this would work with students who have individual/team laptops and those that rely on the teacher’s laptop for input of answers. This is a sure winner in the classroom. If you like this resource and would like further resouces like this on other texts I also take commissions for bespoke topics (contact details are outlined in the resource).

These resources are fully differntiated depending on the GCSE group you are teaching, it includes separate powerpoints and supporting resources for each and a lesson plan, should you use this for an observation. These lessons teach students how to access the GCSE anthology poems in a slightly different way and use an acronmyn to support Unseen Poetry analysis too. Across the resources there are two GCSE questions in line with the curriculum. This could be used for any specification for Unseen Poetry analysis, use of visual images and a quiz, group work and alphabetised poetry is used to engage students.

This KS3 Literacy Programme is 1 of 3 for use with year 7s across an entire term and forms part of a newly written programme that builds on the current demands of the KS2 literacy skills and makes them relevant for students as they head towards GCSE studies. The Study Guide is aptly designed to appeal to year 7 students and has one task per week focusing on a range of literacy skills: Spelling, Grammar and Reading. Each week the student is given a task assuming ‘no knowledge’, so is excellent for all abilities of students, a powerpoint takes students through the correct answers and offers scope for peer assessment and then a further ‘testing’ task is completed to check how securely the students have grasped that aspect of literacy. This cyclical learning style ensures that all students make progress and it encourages students to be accountable in part for their learning, and from the teacher’s perspective they can provide evidence of systematic address of literacy that builds on prior learning supported by comparable data on all students. Answers are included in this resource, so it works seamlessly from purchase to classroom with no additional work except for printing pages for the students. This resource is the first of 3 airmed at year 7 students and forms part of an entire KS3 resource comprising 9 units in total. The subsequent two year 7 booklets for use in this Programme can be found on the links below: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-7-12-literacy-programme-2-11477993 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-7-12-week-literacy-programme-3-11480580 If you would like to see a sample of how this programme works prior to purchase see my free resource here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/literacy-regular-and-irregular-verbs-ks2-3-11713633

This resource includes tasks on building and using different sentence structures, how to use more ambitious punctuation, vocabulary choices, writing devices: figurative language, opening sentences, show don't tell and the wwwww method of writing construction plus some highly engaging tasks based on the mysterious images left by Harris Burdick. My students loved this unit of work and have continued to produce high quality pieces of writing. My other resource on David Didau's slow writing would work really well as a follow up to this unit.

An extensive powerpoint that works through the entire play including contextual information, activities and assessment tasks that are aligned with the GCSE (9-1) specifications. This is a detailed unit of work that supports KS3 students through the study of a play text and has proved to be an excellent training ground for GCSE studies.

This is a complete scheme of work including a range of engaging tasks to captivate a KS3 group or lower ability KS4 group on Shakespeare’s less frequently taught Much Ado About Nothing.