a simple writing frame to get pupils thinking about the role of the character kissing kate barlow in holes. good for lower ability pupils

questions to support coursework skills when reading benjamin button. this supports pages 5 -12 of the story

A simple Shakespeare lesson plan powerpoint good for planning Romeo & Juliet coursework with pupils for GCSE (KS4) The Powerpoint introduces the themes of tragedy across the play.

A lesson based on kurt vonneguts story graphs - pupils sequence a simple fairy tale then produce their own stoy graph of the key events like the ones shown in the infographic and on the powerpoint - they then learn a little about kurt vonnegut the author before comparing their story graphs with the persons next to them and looking for similarities and differences in the stories as a plenary. they can also identify the main story type

a reading scheme or a possible series of cover lessons and homeworks that i made for my work, . Included in this section is the overview with the authors of the books used for each excerpt, each seperate worksheet links to the bingo sheet in part 1, i then developed worksheets with extracts from all different novels and Genre's each sheet has 6-7 comprehension questions and one longer answer question. some books link to the curriculum e.g the recruit (still to come) some are classics and some link to current movies such as the wolf on wall street

a collection of worksheets based on the recruit the CHERUB series by robert muchamore.

Some english resources mostly based around Shakespeare, there are some sheets about persuasive writing and the texts of dr jekyll and mr hyde and skellig. there is also a sequencing sheet about romeo and juliet and a useful writing frame that can be used with lower ability pupils to develop better answers

a powerpoint on romeo and juliet and the need for a prologue in the play

a nice powerpoint for lower ability students about the raven - getting them to interpret themes of the poem

a medium term plan i wrote to develop literacy and numeracy skills, through pupils interest in computer games, i have a booklet of resources to go with this also uploaded onto the TES

a nice lesson plan for a lesson on jane eyre encourages pupils to keep a diary as jane eyre

a cyclical planning frame to help pupils construct a piece of writing on Holes

a simple but useful writing frame to help lower ability pupils with explanatory writing

a simple powerpoint on camp green lake including suggested lesson activities for pupils

a reading scheme or a possible series of cover lessons and homeworks that i made for my work, part 2 coming up. The bingo sheet is the assessment overview, each seperate worksheet links to the sheet, i then developed worksheets with extracts from all different novels and Genre's each sheet has 6-7 comprehension questions and one longer answer question. some books link to the curriculum e.g hunger games and the recruit (still to come) some are classics and some link to current movies such as 12 years a slave the bingo sheet links to the reading assessment foci as well

A module i designed on travel writing, which has the pupils studying travel writing from different eras and different styles, cross curricular in that it looks at writing in runes, historical events, geography, science in that it allows you to design and test a kon-tiki raft an d some maths involved where you cost the different journeys, finishes with the pupils writing a travellog of a journey or a school trip, also included are some viking pictures which we used as a launch point to design a viking character and write a short paragraph introducing them

this is a selection of the New DC 52's blank comic covers that they published as part of their cover variants. I had a great art lesson with my pupils where they designed their own cover art, which is now on display in the local comic shop. This makes a great stand alone cover lesson or part of a ongoing topic on multimodal literature or comic art There is also an example of a completed cover attached to provide inspiration

Based on the game consequences which you may remember from when you were younger, I made these sheets when we had been working on lord of the flies so they have a bit of a lost theme. Each pupil fills in one part of the sheet folds it over and passes it to the person next to them they do a part fold it over and pass it on. when all parts have been completed you unfold it and get some really random and funny stories

A levelled activity for the tempest made a while ago so levels may need changing in line with APP

another simple worksheet on camp green lake from holes good for use with lower ability pupils