The first lesson looks at identifying key quotes and working on large paper in groups The second lesson actually focuses on writing a response Can be amended to suit exam board

This is a nice little resource to use that will get students using their inference skills. The students have to match the small section of the text to the relevant illustration. This works well for students cutting them out and sticking them onto A3.

A colour coded resource with a checklist on to help students with approaching poetry. There is also a colour coded essay framework, which helps students to construct a response to 2 poems read, at the same time as comparing them. This resource has worked great with my middle ability and lower ability classes. An excellent revision resource too.

A fully resourced scheme of work with the theme of 'The Supernatural' The scheme is aimed at KS3 and teaches the skills of letter writing to argue The scheme is extremely engaging and there's lots of interesting materials It has been created to support the changes in the National Curriculum It's an eight week scheme with a PowerPoint for every lesson There's also a keen focus on progress and lots of AFL in there too

This full SOW can be completed alongside any novel at all. It is an 8 week scheme that eventually leads to an empathy style task, which can then be marked for reading and writing It begins with a Summer Transition Project - The transition sheets will need printing on A3 and then taken out to the pyramid/feeder primaries It comes with a full mark scheme too

These odd bits are all what I have created to aid a descriptive/narrative scheme of work with the theme Gothic Horror. There's a planning sheet with titles Links and clips to interesting videos on YouTube Narrative writing conventions card sort Identifying conventions in actual examples

Works really well printed onto A3

A great resource for printing on A3 Includes a space for students to write their own quotations in.

This resource is a list of how Literacy could be developed in a secondary school. Along with this, each idea include the impact that the initiative would have. There is also an additional column to put staff names in, for who may want to take responsibility in that lead.

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4 worksheets on the 4 ghosts in A Christmas Carol This will work well in the classroom or as a revision source for your students to complete as homework

Modelled teacher response at a very basic level. Improvement it written below, showing pupils how ideas can be developed and how sentence variety can impact

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

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

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

As the title says A tick list that will assist with identifying strengths and weaknesses in own work

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

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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