A lesson i created as an end of term activity for year 7 would be good for science clubs too, i used lemonade, cheap sweets you can buy 5 bags for £1 in Asda, food colouring and paper cups so they can taste their potion would be a fun english crossover lesson too as they design their own potion at the end. All resources needed are included in the powerpoint including an evaluation sheet and potion recipes

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

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.

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 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 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 sheet with a self assessment component asking them to draw the breakers yard a simple character grid for pupils to describe the character of alex rider and a sequencing sheet of the main events of chapter 3 and 4

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 short extract from the Golden key one of the Grimms fairy tales is given to the children and they continue the story from where they left off. on the second page is the complete fairy tale which the Grimms often left unfinished at the end of the their tales to give an indication of more treasures to come

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 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