A breakdown of the WJEC narrative writing mark scheme for teachers and pupils (KS3/KS4)

Reading and writing tasks for the poem. Starter: guess the title, Main: exploring images and ideas in the poem/writing a poem, Plenary: sharing creative writing (KS3/KS4)

A lesson exploring a poem whilst developing the skills of inference and empathy. Reading and writing tasks (KS3)

Several lessons that explore the theme of war in Heroes by Robert Cormier. Resources on the historical context and essay advice included (KS4)

A persuasive writing task based on the topic of social networks (KS3/KS4)

Analysis of the poet and comparison with other texts (KS3/KS4)

A worksheet that explores the motif of fire in A Christmas Carol (KS3/KS4)

An emotion wheel for improving the vocabulary of pupils and helping them to explore the feelings of characters in literature. Example of how I use it included.

A timeline of key events in the Hunger Games film. Useful for navigating to important scenes for study (KS3/KS4)

A collection of resources for teaching Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse (KS4)

A full scheme of work with resources on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. 15 lessons. Text included. KS3.

Create your own Shakespeare insult, study the context and the language in a scene from Romeo & Juliet ***You will also need Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo é Juliet*** (KS3/KS4)

Two lessons on a popular Simon Armitage poem. Explore the poem with creative writing (KS3) Lesson 1: Starter: play youtube clip of London Riots Development: read poem and explore language and Armitage comments Plenary: link poetry to imagery Lesson 2: Starter: play youtube clip of Prometheus Development: read poem and answer questions. Then complete creative writing task Plenary: two stars and a wish on creative writing

Writing a review of The Pogues classic Christmas song. Analysis of lyrics and background included. You'll need a YouTube clip of the song (KS3/KS4)

Pupils to complete the table focusing on themes and explaining quotations. Useful for exam revision (KS4)

30 fiction writing prompts for KS3/KS4.

PowerPoints of instructions to create Paper Planes (KS2/KS3)

A reading and writing lesson on the topic of zoos (KS3/KS4)

A PowerPoint that allows pupils to show their textual knowledge by writing creatively about some of the main characters (KS3/KS4)

Poem plus questions (KS3/KS4)