a simple writing frame for use with lower bility pupils to get them to write descriptions of camp green lake

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

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

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

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

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

A simple lesson i built to get the pupils to work up to writing their coursework piece on power and control. we started with 10 pictures of different people to put in order of most to least powerful , then we moved onto the riddle posed by varys to tyrion in game of thrones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq7f9G-Em0g we watched the video then the pupils had to write their answer to the riddle

a simmple blank wordsearch grid i made for children to hide their spellings in quite a useful little sheet to have

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

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 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 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 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 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