an english assessment sheet aimed at level 3/level 4 borderline (writing and reading skills) based on xbox achievements pupil can unlock achievements by completing tasks dong this gets them the full colour version of the achievement allowing you to track their progress, my pupils really buy into assessments using this technique

a scheme of work i wrote on mulitmodal literature it relies on 2 texts tintin the crab with the golden claws and ultimate spiderman who is miles morales

a display i made for school with pictures of fitzgerald and the brontes and qoutes from their works

a simple worksheet to get pupils thinking about gods thumb and what happens to stanley and zero when they are on it. good for lower ability pupils

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 Booklet I designed for English coursework with my BESD pupils. It compares Emily brontes remembrance with Dylan Thomas's do not gently into that good night, included in the booklet are the poems, background information about the authors and guidance on producing a piece of poetry coursework

a simple introduction to the american dream starter mind maps - where pupils describe their dream life and then thnk about what its like in the 1930's then introduce the concept of the american dream an give pupils a character from the ones in the file and get them to write a short story about their characters dream - lenny is included

A worksheet to be used alongside story cubes which are a fantastic resource, basically the pupils roll the cubes and get a choice of pictures which they have to incorporate into a story, I made the sheet so they only picked 4 pictures and could put them in any order they wanted. The stories have to start with once upon a time, I found it a really good way to get the pupils to be creative

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

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

Simple code breaking activities using the computer game Assassin's Creed 2. Students are also invited to write about the features of a successful and entertaining video game.

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