A shop dedicated to the teaching of English language and literature for all ages. All lessons have been tried and tested by me and my department.
Please do leave a review of any lessons that you purchase - I'm always looking to adapt and respond to feedback.
A shop dedicated to the teaching of English language and literature for all ages. All lessons have been tried and tested by me and my department.
Please do leave a review of any lessons that you purchase - I'm always looking to adapt and respond to feedback.
A full lesson on Dulce et Decorum est which focuses on the language used to show the horror of war.
The lesson begins with students being asked to come up with a question based on an image. They then work through the lesson, following one of three differentiated pathways (this could be individually or in ability groups). This leads to an analytical writing task and an eventual attempt to answer the question that they started the lesson devising.
As with all of my lessons, this has been used by me and my department - it was graded as a 1 in my recent PM observation. It has been tweaked following its usage and contains notes on the bottom of the slides to encourage teacher questioning.
Included:
Full PPT (attractively presented)
Three-way differentiated starter
Three-way differentiated writing task
Three-way differentiated peer-assessment checklists
Please leave me a review if you find this lesson as useful as I hope you will (or if you don't!) I always act upon my feedback to make my lessons the very best they can be!
An hour-long lesson introducing students to the context of this Arthur Miller play.
An active and engaging lesson that requires students to be independent learners. Fully differentiated and well-presented.
A three lesson bundle on The Crucible - I will add more lessons as I complete the scheme and bundle them. This is aimed at Year 9.
An introduction to the context of the play, its characters and themes.
Beautifully presented and fully differentiated.
A shortened AQA-style Paper One exam.
Students are given an extract and then a question 1, 2 and 5 so that their reading and writing skills can be assessed.
This is a lesson that I taught to a top set year 9 class and was rated outstanding. It could easily be used for Y11 as it is very challenging!
The lesson focuses on Romeo's soliloquy and introduces students to astrological theories in order to analyse language more fully. They are encouraged to make links to the rest of the play throughout.
The lesson is differentiated by splitting students into pathways for the main activity and providing a modern translation of the soliloquy. There are also notes for teachers to suggest routes of questioning to encourage students to extend their thinking.
If you like the look of this lesson, please see the 22 lesson scheme it is taken from - a bargain at £16.
An hour-long lesson that looks at the first meeting between Romeo and Juliet and the sonnet that they speak together.
Includes activities and whole-class discussions to lead students to an independent writing activity. Fully differentiated, learning objectives and outocmes with notes on the bottom of the slides to suggest what areas teachers might want to focus on.
A comprehensive work pack designed for high ability year 7 students to complete as homework/when placed in isolation.
Featuring poems, approaches to analysing unseen poetry and revision of poetic techniques.
Could be suitable for year 8.
A two lesson bundle on Anthem for Doomed Youth.
Beautifully presented and fully differentiated. These lessons focus on a thorough understanding of the poem before moving on to analysis. Opportunities for AfL and peer assessment are embedded throughout.
A lesson that takes students through the comparative question, what it expects, what difficulties they might face and then guides them through how to answer the question.
Planning grid included along with a model paragraph and extended writing opportunity.
This lesson could easily be adapted to compare two different poems - please see this lesson as part of my power and conflict bundle if you would like the lessons leading up to this one rather than using it as a stand-alone.
A 6 week, fully resourced scheme of work on Animal Farm. Would be suitable for Year 7 or Year 8 pupils - easily differentitated up for Year 9.
The scheme starts by building key skills such as inference and writer’s intention, before moving on to some context and the novella itself.
Detailed PPTs begin with a ‘do now’ activity (all questions based on core knowledge and vocabulary rather than plot) as well as introducing a tier-2 key word which is relevant to the lesson. There are a range of activities, differentiated (structure strips and differentiated resources included) and every lesson ends with an exit ticket.
A booklet that focuses on building reading fluency. Extracts, vocabulary work, comprehension tasks and deep reading activities all included.
Would be ideal for use across the whole school as a reading improvement strategy or in smaller intervention groups.
This booklet is designed to cover four 30 minute sessions per extract and there are six extracts in total.
A descriptive writing lesson taught to a very bright year 7 class but could be easily adapted for all year groups.
The lesson includes a three-way differentiated reading activity as a springboard for students to write their own descriptive piece to create tension. Success criteria, redrafting opportunities and musical chair peer assessment all feature in this lesson which was graded outstanding in a recent observation.
Three reading extracts have been included.
A fully differentiated lesson on Robert Browning's The Laboratory with lesson objectives and new GCSE assessment criteria.
Students are encouraged to make inferences or engage with the story of the poem at the start of the lesson and then work through it in order to answer a question based on gender representation.
All resources are included: images, LA starter, writing frame, differentiated copies of the poem.
A lesson designed to revise and strengthen knowledge of persuasive features through letter writing.
This lesson is designed around Twelfth Night but is very easily adaptable to suit any scheme.
Full lesson objectives and success criteria included.
A second bundle of Power and Conflict Poetry lessons.
All lessons fully differentiated with stretch and extended activities and ready to teach - comparison skills woven throughout.
Poems:
Bayonet Charge
Poppies
Remains
The Emigree
A simple to use literacy learning walk card (that can be fully edited to suit) that can be used to look at the effectiveness of whole-school literacy.
An accompanying spreadsheet is also provided (formula included) to collect and quantify data to see, very easily, whole-school areas for improvement.
A checklist with images designed to help LA students, or those with behavioural issues, to get it right at the start of lessons and support the building of routines. It is very helpful with ADHD students.
The checklist includes images to help remind students of the expectations and support them to make the right decisions. It also gives them ownership of their own behaviour.
It is fully editable to fit with your routines and I usually laminate them so that they can be reused.