A Virtual Reading Corner for students to come and access online Ebooks, get an update on what you are reading and have a safe space in which they feel inspired to pick up a book and read.

This is a roll & retrieve activity for A Christmas Carol. Instructions: Students roll the dice twice to find a topic on the grid, they then write this into box one. This process is then repeated for box two. Once both boxes have been filled in, students then have the challenge of drawing links between the two topics. This is a great retrieval practice resource or revision game.

This PowerPoint is designed to go through the poem Night of the Scorpion. The PowerPoint follows through the method of VIPERS and teaches students key skills such as: inference, explaining effect and the writers intentions.

This is a fully completed lesson focusing on improving creative writing through the art of re-drafting. Students are encouraged to focus on different aspects of their writing in the re-drafting process and look at what makes their writing more fine tuned. This is perfect for KS3 and KS4 students. Perfect lesson for exploring language paper one question five skills.

Seven weeks worth of comprehensive home learning tasks to use alongside the ‘Ghost Boys’ book. These tasks focus on features of writing, language techniques and debate questions.

A comprehensive PowerPoint going through the poem Island Man. This includes information about the poet, activities for students to complete and an analysis of the poem.

This is a roll & retrieve activity for Inspector Calls. Instructions: Students will roll and dice twice to select a topic on the grid and write this in box one. This process will then be repeated for box two. Students will then have the challenge of drawing links between the two topics that they have selected. This is great to use for retrieval practice within class or as a fun, competitive revision activity.

This PowerPoint is designed to introduce students to cultural poetry units. It goes through what culture is and what culture means to your students. It then gives a detailed unit overview as well as providing activities and homework tasks.

This is a straight forward creative writing task based around the BLM movement. This is a great activity for KS3 and KS4 classes and can also be a brilliant cover or filler lesson.

This PowerPoint goes through the poem discussing context and language techniques. This can be used as a full lesson. The PowerPoint uses the VIPERS method of analysing poetry and teaches students skills such as: Inference, explaining effects of language and thinking about writers intentions.

This is a bundle of PowerPoints that introduces students to cultural poetry. It includes the poems: Blessing, Island Man and Night of the Scorpion. The Powerpoints are designed to help students to gain skills such as: inference, thinking about the writers intentions, picking out key themes etc. All of the PowerPoints are designed as full lessons.

A lesson focused on improving students debating skills. Students look at images to improve inference skills, explore arguing both sides of an argument and what a good argument looks like.

A full lesson focusing on Romeo and Juliet Act 1 and Act 2 Romeo’s soliloquy. This is the next lesson following on from ‘Act 1’ and looks more closely at how Shakespeare presents different kinds of love. The lesson provides a dual coding activity, summaries of key parts of the play and a chance to explore Romeos soliloquy and comparing this to Juliet’s speech.

A full lesson exploring Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet. Explores the downfalls of both Romeo and Juliet, Includes a quick fire test and a chance to explode a quote that has been preselected to give learners the opportunity to explore and analyze Shakespeare’s language.

This resource contains seven weeks worth of home learning tasks aimed at KS3 students. The theme follows Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rodes with each week of home learning containing three unique tasks that include dual coding, essay style questions or language terminology focus. This is sure to save you time planning and this resource could also be used as a stretch and challenge or extension activity for learners.

This lesson focuses on chapter nine and ten in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The resource contains multiple comprehension activities. Learners will look at Simon’s character, how leadership changes on the island and respond to an essay style question, explore metaphors in the novel and complete a dual coding/symbolism activity. With seventeen slides worth of activities, there is something for everyone to enjoy.

Three fully planned lessons that center on creative writing. A lovely introduction to ‘A Monster Calls’ scheme of work or as a fun creative writing project for your students. The first lesson looks at Monsters in Literature, the second lesson looks at creating a monster and the final lesson brings everything together when students compare their own creations to those in literature.

This resource contains two worksheets. One that students can use to practice their spellings either at home or in school with their teacher and another to complete a ten word spelling test. This resource can be used by any teacher in any grade to help students with their spellings.

This file has been created to make sub planning easier. It is broken down into three key areas including a welcome page, the school day and lesson plan subheading to ensure that your sub teacher has everything that they need. This can be used to help set cover work in a clear and comprehensive way.

GET TO KNOW YOU BINGO! This is a great first lesson back, icebreaker or team building activity. Print out this colorful bingo PDF file for your students and allow them to walk around the room finding students who fit the descriptions on the sheet. Once a student has found a match they can check off that box…who will be the first to find a full house!!