Students will: Define the term parody. Explore examples. Create a christmas themed parody of a song.

Worksheet to introduce the poem to low ability students. Annotation for key features followed by questioning on themes and use of techniques.

Students identify key information given in famous novel openings and then respond creatively to various stimuli images.

Students will recap simile, metaphor and personification before exploring two extracts. they will learn in a scaffolded way how to analyse and create their own paragraphs.

Double sided worksheet giving insight into effective opening, changing focus and zooming in with examples from popular fiction. Students are modeled on the approach to analyse this then led towards an exam style question.

PPT and resources to get students to work in teams to make the biggest words they can. Useful as a warm up, competiton or tutor time activity.

Lesson giving students the opportunity to examine writers ideas on love before creating their own.

A workbook including activities on: • Common spelling errors • Correcting Spelling Mistakes • Punctuation examples • Homophones • Synonyms • Making plurals • Tense Mistakes • Homophone correction • Punctuation Missing Could be broken up for starters or used as a longer homework project,

Double sided work sheet designed for students to identify poetic techniques and consider their effect. Scaffolded questions lead toward written paragraphs of analysis.

For use with the Animated Tales video. Lesson should take 2 hours giving students an understanding of plot, modeled and independent analysis of language and the opportunity for creative writing and peer assessment.

Sheet designed to introduce AR to KS3 and encourage competition between readers. to record Star reading and Quiz percentages to measure success.

Lesson introducing key terms for analyzing poetry. Card sort followed by the consolidation of the terms on a handy reference sheet. Students then identify where they can find the techniques in the given poems.

Lesson introducing the concept of Slam/Spoken word with links to useful examples culminating in students creating their own slam poems.

Short tasks and questions based upon Paper 1 of the AQA English paper 1. (6 pages) Extract from The Hunger Games.

A lesson introducing the use of Discourse Markers to aid in writing to persuade/argue.

Worksheet exploring the speech of Lou Gherig at his retirement from baseball. Students identify DAFOREST techniques before planning and writing an exam style response.

6 worksheets (2 per A4 sheet) used as an introduction to the topics: Plurals, Suffix, Prefix, Homophone, Antonym and Synonym. Includes Stretch activities for more able students.

Booklet includes: Code breaking Justifying survival bag choices Guided story writing Reasoning ideal ‘base’ locations from a provided map Writing descriptions based on an image Independent creative writing

A series of key quotes from throughout the play to allow students to consider Shakespeare's use of language technique and symbolism.

a collection of warm up activities for use in creative writing.