I am a secondary school English teacher with a specialist interest in literature and poetry. I also teach GCSE Media Studies and spent many years as a journalist.
My resources include ranges designed for KS3 and GCSE. Full schemes of work all include detailed lesson plans, opportunities for assessment, a range of activities to suit all abilities and a selection of varied activities which can be fully adapted to match the needs of your class.
I am a secondary school English teacher with a specialist interest in literature and poetry. I also teach GCSE Media Studies and spent many years as a journalist.
My resources include ranges designed for KS3 and GCSE. Full schemes of work all include detailed lesson plans, opportunities for assessment, a range of activities to suit all abilities and a selection of varied activities which can be fully adapted to match the needs of your class.
A collection of 10 lessons covering chapters 6-15 of Patricia Forde’s ‘The Wordsmith’ (The List in the United States).
Each lesson comes with lesson plan, Powerpoint and any additional resources you might need.
Challenge activities and defferentiation tasks are provided.
These lessons are designed for Key Stage 3 (11-14) but would be suitable for older Key Stage 2 (9-11).
Powerpoint lesson covering chapter 15 of Patricia Forde’s ‘The Wordsmith’ (also known as ‘The List’ in the United States).
Resource includes:
Powerpoint lesson with lesson plan
The lesson is designed to take an hour but can definitely be extended depending on the challenge and depth that you want to pursue with the text.
This is an ideal text for Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14) but could also work for top end Key Stage 2 (ages 9-11).
Powerpoint lesson covering chapter 14 of Patricia Forde’s ‘The Wordsmith’ (also known as ‘The List’ in the United States).
Resource includes:
Powerpoint lesson with lesson plan
The lesson is designed to take an hour but can definitely be extended depending on the challenge and depth that you want to pursue with the text.
This is an ideal text for Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14) but could also work for top end Key Stage 2 (ages 9-11).
Powerpoint lesson covering chapter 13 of Patricia Forde’s ‘The Wordsmith’ (also known as ‘The List’ in the United States).
Resources include:
Powerpoint lesson with lesson plan
Additional extract resources (x2)
Fill-in-the-gaps exercise
The lesson is designed to take an hour but is more likely to need two lessons depending on the challenge and depth that you want to pursue with the text.
This is an ideal text for Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14) but could also work for top end Key Stage 2 (ages 9-11).
Powerpoint lesson covering chapter 12 of Patricia Forde’s ‘The Wordsmith’ (also known as ‘The List’ in the United States).
Resource includes:
Powerpoint lesson with lesson plan
The lesson is designed to take an hour but can definitely be extended depending on the challenge and depth that you want to pursue with the text.
This is an ideal text for Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14) but could also work for top end Key Stage 2 (ages 9-11).
Powerpoint lesson covering chapter 11 of Patricia Forde’s ‘The Wordsmith’ (also known as ‘The List’ in the United States).
Resource includes:
Powerpoint lesson with lesson plan
The lesson is designed to take an hour but can definitely be extended depending on the challenge and depth that you want to pursue with the text.
This is an ideal text for Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14) but could also work for top end Key Stage 2 (ages 9-11).
Powerpoint lesson covering chapter 10 of Patricia Forde’s ‘The Wordsmith’ (also known as ‘The List’ in the United States).
Resource includes:
Powerpoint lesson with lesson plan
The lesson is designed to take an hour but can definitely be extended depending on the challenge and depth that you want to pursue with the text.
This is an ideal text for Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14) but could also work for top end Key Stage 2 (ages 9-11).
Powerpoint lesson covering chapter 9 of Patricia Forde’s ‘The Wordsmith’ (also known as ‘The List’ in the United States).
Resource includes:
Powerpoint lesson with lesson plan
The lesson is designed to take an hour but can definitely be extended depending on the challenge and depth that you want to pursue with the text.
This is an ideal text for Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14) but could also work for top end Key Stage 2 (ages 9-11).
Powerpoint lesson covering chapter 8 of Patricia Forde’s ‘The Wordsmith’ (also known as ‘The List’ in the United States).
Resources include:
Powerpoint lesson with lesson plan
Additional gap-fill resource
The lesson is designed to take an hour but can definitely be extended depending on the challenge and depth that you want to pursue with the text.
This is an ideal text for Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14) but could also work for top end Key Stage 2 (ages 9-11).
One Powerpoint lesson covering chapter 7 of Patricia Forde’s ‘The Wordsmith’ (also known as ‘The List’ in the United States).
Resources include:
1 full Powerpoint lesson with lesson plan
Challenge activity for higher abilities
The lesson is designed to take an hour but can definitely be extended depending on the challenge and depth that you want to pursue with the text.
This is an ideal text for Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14) but could also work for top end Key Stage 2 (ages 9-11).
Two Powerpoint lessons covering chapter 6 of Patricia Forde’s ‘The Wordsmith’ (also known as ‘The List’ in the United States).
Resources include:
2 full Powerpoint lessons with lesson plans
Additional extract resource
Challenge activities for higher abilities
Each lesson is designed to take an hour but can definitely be extended depending on the challenge and depth that you want to pursue with the text.
This is an ideal text for Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14) but could also work for top end Key Stage 2 (ages 9-11).
Word document with over 100 key quotations from Coram Boy. The quotations are ordered by theme and character and include chapter numbers for ease of reference.
This is a resource to help with revision for the Pearson Edexcel modern novel - Coram Boy.
GCSE English poetry unit of work PowerPoints with “unseen” poem practise exercises. Designed for the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Conflict poems from the exam board anthology.
Each poem from the Conflict section of the anthology has its own PowerPoint lesson with supporting materials and a comparison poem that pupils can practise with for the unseen element of the exam.
Powerpoints are structured as follows:
Introduction to the anthology poem
Context
Anthology poem
Discussion of key themes, language and structure
Unseen poem
Comparison exercise
Example exam questions
Challenge exercises are included for most poems
Lesson resources include:
Anthology poem comparison list
Vocabulary hand-outs
A Poison Tree
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Extract from The Prelude
The Man He Killed
Cousin Kate
Half-Caste
Exposure
The Charge Of The Light Brigade
Catrin
War Photographer
Belfast Confetti
The Class Game
Poppies
No Problem
What Were They Like
This bundle contains 19 lessons and a Scheme of Work specifically for the NEW modern novel “Coram Boy” on the Pearson Edexcel English Literature GCSE.
Resources include 19 lesson PowerPoints and accompanying worksheets, lesson plans and timings, vocabulary glossary, key quotations and bonus activities all desigined specifically for the Edexcel GCSE syllabus.
Lessons are structured chronologically in line with the chapters of the novel and include:
Introductory lesson
Chapter 1 - Gloucester, Otis and the concept of charity
Chapter 2 – Metaphors, sensory language and child abandonment
Chapters 3&4 – Angels for Meshak and meeting Thomas and Alexander
Chapter 5 – The Slave Trade
Chapter 6 – The Orphanage, hypocrisy and social care
Chapter 7 – Themes, poverty and writing practise
Chapter 9 – The Ball and the concept of jealousy
Chapters 9&10 – The class divide, the National Health Service
Chapters 12&13 – Music throughout the novel, friendships
Part Two - 1750
Parting from parents, a surprise return
Mementoes
Trauma
Exploitation Continues
18th Century London, a change at Ashbrook
Trust and comprehension practise
Suffering and sounds
Epilogue
The lessons contain a mix of differentiated activities, progress checks, extra challenge questions and exam questions plus at least one opportunity, per lesson, for self/peer red-pen assessment.
The pack also includes a Key Quotations document, ordered by character and theme.
9 worksheets in Word for SEN pupils covering the whole of Merchant of Venice at KS3 and KS4. Sheets include key word/theme analysis and cloze sentence exercises. Worksheets would help with revision or can be used as a teaching aid with lower ability or SEN students.
8 worksheets cover themes, key words and characters in Merchant of Venice including:
Christianity
Judaism
Patriarchy
The Bond
Usury
Shylock
Antonio
Portia
1 Dual Coding worksheet which can be leveled up or down by teacher or Learning Support Assistant depending on ability of pupil.
These resources have been designed for KS4 pupils as a learning support pack but would also work as a revision aid. They would work as learning aids for KS4 students who struggle either with information processing or the English language.
Documents are fully adaptable if you wish to add, remove or edit to suit your student.
PDF activities worksheets for dyslexic students needing extra support with phonics and spelling; designed to be used in inclusion or one-on-one environments.
Based on the principles of John Bald’s Slimmed Down Spelling, these phonics exercises have been designed to help higher-ability dyslexic students with their writing and spelling particularly at the start of KS3.
The worksheet provides a step-by-step guide for the teacher, parent or learning support assistant to work through 6 spelling and writing activities to help practise word and letter patterns.
The activities can be used in isolation from eachother in short bursts of around 15 minutes each or in 2 sessions of approximately 50 minutes each.
SPAG PDF booklet of KS2/KS3 basics aimed at transitioning to secondary teaching and can act as a Knowledge Organiser for year 7s.
Contents include:
Spelling:
- i before e except after c
- changing y to ies
- adding es to words ending in s, ss, z, ch, sh & x
- doubling up rule
- drop the e rule
- changing the y to i when adding suffix endings
- changing f to ves
- words ending in ful
- adding ly to the end of a word
- adding the prefix all
- their vs there
Sentence types:
- imperative
- declarative
- exclamatory
Punctuation:
- capital letters
- apostrophes
- question marks
- it’s vs its
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
This resource works well as an independent reference guide for students both in school and with home learning. This is also particularly helpful for inclusion work and as a learning and support aide for SEN teaching.
The booklet is in PDF and is formatted so that when it is printed on landscape A4, it can be stapled in the middle and made into a booklet. Totals 20 sides of A5. When printing from PDF, be sure to select paper size as A4 and print 2 pages per sheet. Always print a practice booklet first!
12 worksheets in Word for SEN pupils covering whole of Macbeth at KS3 and KS4. Sheets include key word/theme analysis and cloze sentence exercises.
9 worksheets cover themes and key words in Macbeth including:
Ambition
Dagger
Femininity
Fiend
Foul
Masculinity
Regicide
Serpent
Spirits
2 Cloze sentence worksheets answer the questions:
“How is Lady Macbeth portrayed throughout the play?” and;
“Macbeth became an evil king because of Lady Macbeth: How far do you agree with this statement?”
1 Dual coding worksheet which can be leveled up or down by teacher or Learning Support Assistant depending on ability of pupil.
These resources have been designed for KS3 SEN pupils but would work as learning aids for KS4 students who struggle either with information processing or English language.
Documents are fully adaptable if you wish to add, remove or edit to suit your student.