4 questions that gradually become more difficult to use as a stimulus for group work discussion Students should explore possibilities, which is a skill they need for the Literature syllabus Questions can be stuck on A3 paper, so that students are able to write their answers around the questions All questions are based on Stave 1

A series of lessons based around formal and informal letter writing You will need to model a response from your own stock The PowerPoint goes through the layout of each, with short and engaging activities mainly aimed at teenage boys Past exam tasks on there too

A series of PowerPoint slides that revise a range of sentence types A good print out for books or can be used as mini tasks in class Plain and simple

A nice resource for students with upcoming exams There is space for name, exam date, reading targets and writing targets

You will also need a past student response to aid this PowerPoint Students will 1st work identifying elements that are successful in the student response and filling out the grid Then, move onto thinking about the task title - in this PP it is to describe the scene at a park There are some images to get students thinking creatively and imaginatively Students should then aim to write at least one descriptive paragraph by the end of the lesson

Introduce your students to descriptive writing with this visual aid There are a range of images to be printed out I stuck the images on A3 paper - one image per sheet The students, in groups, then had to have a go at adding adjectives, verbs, similes etc to describe the image ****No book marking involved!!!

A really simple to follow SOW that has a PowerPoint for every lesson. Each PowerPoint has a settler starter image linked to the play. The scheme was developed for low ability year 10 students, however it would be ok to use with year 8/9 The scheme leads to a discursive essay on the treatment of women by men, however it can be adapted to suit

A full lesson dedicated to focusing on Scrooge's past and Christmas at Fezziwig's when Scrooge was an apprentice The first section deals with the challenging language There's a link to a short video link to use as a visual aid Then the main activity is for students to find key quotes and discuss what they reveal about Scrooge's character - worksheet is on the last page of the PowerPoint

Starter image with thinking questions on for students Group work activity follows Students will focus on different members of the Cratchit family and the opinions that they form of them At the end of the PowerPoint there is an image, whereby the language term 'juxtaposition' can be taught Students could then spend time noting down where juxtaposition occurs elsewhere in the novel and how this links to the moral ideology of Dickens

This is an introduction to writing to advise All of the statements will be relevant to students They could work in groups and write their advice on large sheets of paper When sharing ideas, students could then look to see if they've used modal verbs etc

4 different coloured poker chips e.g. red, blue, orange and green You hand out the blank chips to students and you keep the chips with the varied questioning starts on them The question starts have been taken from a question matrix It is up to you, you can use them as a differentiation tool, but the idea is that you take a red one for example, from your own pile and then look for an answer from a student who has a blank red poker chip. And so on. It's as simple as that!

Low ability resource to get students thinking about the difference between thoughts and feelings - visual aid

8 different table mats that follow the Kagan structure These are bright and colourful and they can be laminated and stuck down on desks Each one has a character in the middle from a novel or play

Key character revision sheet I printed this on A3 and then asked students to add their own key quotations

Here are 2 practice assessment questions that have been pieced together based on the new AQA specification for 2017 onwards entry

Starts with a short video clip from YouTube Resource on the demonstrate phase allows students to demonstrate their understanding of Stave 1 though key characters, quotes and symbolism

Narrative writing assessment planning sheet - can be changed and adapted to suit own theme Thus was for a gothic theme

A full lesson that looks at the description of the first spirit and its significance

Descriptive writing WAGOLL with lots of ambitious vocabulary

A colourful resource with 17 different starter activities