An assessment task for the beginning of Private Peaceful about Tommo’s father’s death. Can be used as a formative assessment to baseline students. Suitable for KS3 students. Includes two extension tasks which focus on writing skills, particularly using different sentence types.

A powerpoint which shows the rules for the classroom with an example of an activity which invites students to think about what they want to get out of the year. Used with KS3 and KS4 students to encourage them to focus on positive behaviour and attitude.

A short scheme of work to study short stories with KS3. Includes example short stories as well as activities and examples of how to write using the senses.

A plan and a template for a formal letter. Used with KS3 students studying Private Peaceful to write a letter to the author about an incident in the book, however can be adapted to any novel or non fiction activity. Template includes sentence starters and the plan includes questions to get students thinking.

Introducing Jane Eyre to year 9 students to prepare for AQA GCSE English Literature. A lesson prompting students to research key areas of the social context of the novel. Includes challenge task as well as information to begin their search.

A lesson preparing students to answer a question about sympathy for Jane. It includes a student friendly mark scheme for AQA English Literature.

An introduction to literacy particularly focusing on punctuation marks. Lessons included to cover sentence types and basic punctuation. Suitable for KS3.

A powerpoint with a guide to sentence types and two activities to complete: one as a class and one individual. Also includes a homework task. Can be used with KS3 and KS4.

Full lesson covering paper 1 questions 3 and 4 with model answers and writing frames for November 2017 AQA exam paper.

A storyboard template and character profile sheets, all with an example of what to do included, for all the main characters. Easily adaptable.

Storyboard template and character profile sheets, all with first example completed for each main character. Easily adaptable.

Weeks three and four lessons and resources

Further lessons to work towards controlled assessment.

Second week of lessons with resources

First 3 lessons to introduce students to the idea of iconoclasts with examples and worksheets.

Further lessons

First week’s lessons for this unit with worksheets and example opinion pieces.

I used this powerpoint with year 8's to make sure they were aware of rhyming couplets, semantic field and onomatopoeia.

The rules for crime fiction from 1930 adapted for a low ability year 7 class (levels 2-4) with worksheet. Slides to discuss who and what should be in a crime story. Slides with crime fiction book covers to show features of crime stories.