A fully resourced PowerPoint that guides students through the exploration of ‘Medusa’ by Carol Ann Duffy - activities also include a comparison task with the poem ‘Mrs. Midas’, also by Carol Ann Duffy. Tried and tested in the classroom with lots of success.

I designed this for my Year 11 class taking the new AQA exam to boost their writing skills for the descriptive/narrative writing task. A range of activities, including some examples from fiction to assess, and a student friendly mark scheme they can use to rate their own confidence against the skills required to succeed.

A lesson focussing on an extract from Stave Two, whilst introducing students to metacognition (thinking about thinking) includes a student review to see which strategies they liked best and to evaluate whether or not it improved their written responses. I did this lesson with Year 10 and the reviews were extremely positive.

I designed this fully resourced lesson to help improve extended written responses to the two Literature papers. It includes a PPT with top tips, a check list, and a scaffolded essay plan to help students develop an extended response (focussing on Romeo and Juliet, but could be easily adapted) . Perfect for mixed ability classes.

A fully resourced mini project covering the novel, play, and film of 'The Woman in Black'. Includes a detailed PowerPoint and accompanying student work booklet, with additional display materials. Students have always found this very engaging. Designed to be used alongside copies of the book and the film.

A series of 6 fully resourced lessons exploring the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Uses images from the Patrick Stewart version and links to YouTube clips. Lots of guidance and scaffolding/sentence starters to help students analyse and explore the difference in language used between the two characters. Extracts provided on worksheets with original Shakespeare next to a modern translation to help students access the language. Some more challenging activities too, including reading an extract from a literary article. Students have always enjoyed and engaged well with this sequence of lessons at both KS3 and KS4.

A complete and fully resourced series of lessons for teaching ‘Skellig’ by David Almond. Created with low ability KS3 in mind but could easily be used for KS2. Includes: a visually engaging PPT for every lesson with success criteria scaffolding to support lower and higher ability documents with scanned key extracts documents with colour images of front covers for discussion All you will need are copies of the book! I taught this last year and the students really enjoyed the term studying this book.