Three resources here - a list of 8 possible View from the Bridge questions and two sample, colour coded responses.

This begins with a drawing activity, to emphasise the importance of conveying detail. Students are given two different versions of the same description to decide which is best, followed by a number of statements to improve upon themselves. IAMSOAP is introduced, as a method for remembering the techniques of descriptive writing. Finally, students are asked to describe three images to create atmosphere, using the techniques from IASOAP. Peer Assessment to finish.

Aimed at KS3 but could be used at KS4, these four lessons introduce the idea of researching and presenting a job / career that students would like to do in the future, after looking at some celebrity jobs. Includes an interactive whiteboard game to emphasise key speaking and listening skills. Peer and self assessment are part of the lessons.

These worksheets provide a handy outline of things to keep in mind when writing a narrative or a description. Could be given out to students as revision aids.

This resource contains 4 x complete lessons using a variety of recent High Street Store Christmas adverts as stimulus. It also contains 3 x home learning tasks with corresponding 10 minute DIRT / follow-up class activities for peer marking. Merry Christmas!

This resource is made up of 3 extracts which all describe three famous detectives - Sherlock Holmes, Mma Ramotswe from the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency and Poirot. These extracts are perfect for students to use their inference skills to work out the characters of these detectives. They could use this as a springboard for creating their own fictional detectives.

This lesson works through Q1 and Q3 of one of AQA's KS3 practice papers for GCSE English Language. Answers are provided for Q1 to enable self assessment. Pupils are then asked to identify a set of given structural features before considering 4 different levels of example responses and deciding which is the 'best' one. Cloze exercise as a creative writing extension task.

This is an assessment comprising of one question on A Christmas Carol and one question on Jekyll and Hyde. Includes extracts for both and written in the style of AQA English Literature Paper 1. Also contains a Section B for English Language Paper 1. In this case two descriptive writing options, one with a stimulus.

USEFUL FOR BROADENING KNOWLEDGE AT A LEVEL. CAN BE PRINTED OFF FOR STUDENTS TO HAVE AS A REFERENCE GUIDE.

Three articles, article-based questions and tasks on the topic of gun crime. Suitable for KS3 or 4. Might engage boys.

Seven lessons (the first three of which look at the context for the story) covering up to the end of Stave 1. Aimed at MA but contains tasks for all abilities. Easily differentiated.

Four lessons focusing on Stave 4.

3 lessons covering Stave 2 - Ghost of Christmas Past.

Six lessons focussing on Stave 3, The Ghost of Christmas Present. Includes a step by step approach to analysing an exam question - How does Dickens present the importance of family? Relevant extract included.

Two lessons focusing on Q2 and Q4 of AQA English Language Paper 2 (one lesson each) using Rory Stewart’s Afghanistan travel extract and an extract from Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journals.

This is intended for KS3 English lessons looking at Victorian context in preparation for English Literature at GCSE. This resource is a minimum of 2 lessons. Includes extracts from Lowood school (Jane Eyre) followed by a kahoot quiz, an extract from Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby with a cloze exercise to describe the dilapidated school room, followed by an inference exercise on the boys of Dotheboys Hall. Drama task to finish capturing Mr Brocklehurts’s reaction to a curly haired, red-headed pupil at his school.

This resource contains lessons on The Storm, Piroska, Pitch, The Boy in the Boat, Nature, Mud and Monkey from Chris Priestley’s Tales of Terror from the Black Ship. Some focus on identifying and writing skills such as simile, onomatopoeia, alliteration, metaphor and inference. Aimed at Y7 & 8.

This is a step by step (1 - 2 lessons) guide to Remains by Simon Armitage. Contains 2 quizzes on content and techniques, a guided task on considering how the poem relates to the themes of power and conflict, and a step by step process of writing a response on the theme of power. Worked very well with middle ability Y9 but would also be suitable for higher sets.