A single lesson exploring characterisation in ‘Dracula’ with a focus on developing understanding of the Gothic genre.

A collection of over 20 ‘Knowledge Recall Starters’ for KS4 studies.

A weekly KS3 intervention reading booklet exploring 6 key scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Each week, teachers plan bespoke tasks for the class and individuals using the data established and collated from the Accelerated Reader STAR tests.

A lesson building, exploring, crafting, and evaluating speeches on the theme of ‘injustice’.

An introductory lesson exploring the power of the opening line and the final line, as well as identifying other structural devices. Students will explore using Lovely Bones. All resources provided.

A lesson exploring archetypal characters in Fantasy fiction (with links to Harry Potter).

An engaging, fully-resourced lesson consolidating understanding of a range of Fantasy fiction characters, such as: Harry Potter, Queen of Hearts, and Gollum.

A lesson exploring the use of dialogue in Fantasy fiction through exploration of an extract from Harry Potter. Students will then be explored to a new form through an extract study of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Lesson Four: Evaluating Fairy Tales Students will develop an understanding and appreciation of how writers successfully use description in their writing by exploring crafting of writing in ‘The Ickabog’. To begin with, the lesson recaps and identifies important subject terminology. Teachers should set a quiz on any misconceptions. Lesson Five: Famous Fairy Tale Subversions As students have developed an understanding of fairy tales in week one, supported with their homework tasks, this week explores fairy tales and how famous writers have subverted them in the past. This lesson explores The Brothers Grimm and Charles Perault. Lesson Six: Crafting Fairy Tale Descriptions To identify early progress, students will describe a typical fairy tale setting using the knowledge developed from the previous lessons studying The Brothers Grimm and Charles Perault. Weekly Overview: By the end of the week, students should be able to plan a description based on fairy tale conventions and begin to subvert expectations in the style of The Brothers Grimm and Charles Perault.

Lesson Seven: Freytag’s Narrative Structure This lesson, students will develop their understanding of Freytag’s narrative structure by exploring ‘Aschenputtel’ by The Brothers Grimm. Developing on from last week’s study of famous subversions of fairy tales, students will now move onto the structure of these texts and how this will be utilised in their end of term assessment. Lesson Eight: Fairy Tale Settings Using Shrek as a stimulus and pastiche of the genre, students will explore typical settings in fairy tales. To assess progress, students will complete a short baseline writing task of a setting description, which can be used in their end of term writing during the exposition. Lesson Nine: Archetypal Characters Building on from settings, students will explore archetypal characters in fairy tales and how writers and pop-culture challenge these stereotypes. Students will debate why it is important that we have visible challenges to stereotypes in wider society. Following on from this, students will once again develop their writing by crafting a brief paragraph on a character. Weekly Overview: This week, students will begin to craft settings and character descriptions which can be incorporated into their own assessment response at the end of term. Furthermore, we continue to explore how and why writers subvert character, setting, and plot.

Lesson Ten: Allegories Students will explore allegories in fairy tales. For LA students, this can be supported with Aesop’s fables. Students will explore an article exploring why fairy tales are used to challenge issues in society. Lesson Eleven: Personification and Symbolism Continuing to unlock deeper meanings in fairy tales, students will explore the use of challenging devices. This lesson will explore ‘The Snow Queen’, where students will identify, analyse, and evaluate (HA) the use of personification and symbolism. Lesson Twelve: Subverting Fairy Tales For this lesson, students should compare an original fairy tale with The Brothers Grimm version (e.g., Cinderella and Aschenputtel). After comparing the two and identifying differences, students will practise how they can subvert a traditional fairy tale (Three Little Pigs) with class modelling. Weekly Overview: To develop their ability to craft allegorical and sophisticated subverted fairy tales, students will explore HA techniques to develop their understanding of deeper meaning in literature.

Lesson Thirteen: Vladimir Propp and Crafting Characters (Exposition) Students will be introduced to Propp characters and identifying these in fairy tales. Students will differentiate between heroes and villains. Lesson Fourteen: Linear/Circular Narratives and Crafting Settings (Exposition) This lesson, students will explore linear and circular narratives, including a close reading of ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. Students will then begin to plan how they can subvert narrative structures in their assessment next week. Lesson Fifteen: Advanced Features Continuing to explore crafting of narrative, students will explore how they can build better sentences, utilise a range of punctuation, craft their vocabulary choices for effect, and incorporate high-level features in their writing.

A classroom poster to celebrate all the ‘non-negotiables’ we complete in our classroom - exploring the WHAT, HOW and WHY.

A CPD session exploring the concept of disciplinary literacy and how to support reading in English lessons and across the curriculum. All research is in the notes section.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem, ‘Poppies’, by Jane Weir through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.

A two-part lesson exploring Chapters 4/5 of ‘The Giver’ with students crafting their own letters from the perspective of The Giver to Jonas.

An engaging lesson exploring Charles Dickens’ early life, attitudes towards society and other contextual factors.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem ‘Extract from the Prelude’ by William Wordsworth through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem ‘Tissue’ by Imitiaz Dharker through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.