This lesson has been used to go over War Photographer and Storm on the Island - both poems have been pre-read and looked at, but not in lots of detail. The lesson is to a mid to low ability Year 10 group. The lesson takes students through vocabulary tacking and understanding, and also what’s happening in Storm on the Island through a storyboard activity, before then leading to planning how conflict is presented in War Photographer and Storm on the Island. I hope it’s helpful!

This is a word document including some of the events in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. The class need to decide whether the events from the chapters (Chapters 5-8) are either Christie’s clues or misdirections given to confuse the readers.

Adapted Kamikaze poem for my low ability sets. Quote sheets and questions in the PPT - those slides will need to be printed off.

Attached is a PowerPoint lesson that could stretch over 3 hours depending on the ability of your group. It goes over the first ideas of the poem, has an author study sheet, includes a terminology recap, questions for zoomed in parts of the poem and then a discussion about how it compares with other poems. It took one of my lower ability groups just shy of 3 lessons and that includes a live modelled annotated poem from me. They did enjoy it and said it helped them break it down.

This is the FOURTH booklet in my Literacy series! It has been designed for low ability KS4, KS3 (or maybe KS2) students to recap certain skills to cement their knowledge. This was designed for students struggling with skills for in class intervention and used for homework. It does mention Literacy Booklet 1, Literacy Booklet 2 AND Literacy Booklet 3 (available from my store). There are a range of activities in this booklets like: finding the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the sentences and describe the images, sorting these 4 techniques into boxes (like the noun task but on a bigger scale), finding verbs within a text and then saying the effect of them, the use of adverbs and considering the effect of them, recap of similes by finding them in a longer text and then further work on metaphors - two pages - and explaining which parts of the text are actual metaphors and then identifying what bits are being compared…and FINALLY (as before) a self assessment at the end.

This is the THIRD booklet in my Literacy series! It has been designed for KS3 (or maybe KS2) students to recap certain skills to cement their knowledge. This was designed for students struggling with skills for in class intervention and used for homework. It does mention Literacy Booklet 1 and Literacy Booklet 2 (available from my store). There are a range of activities in this booklets like: a quick quiz to do a knowledge check at the beginning, types of nouns recap going over them with a different list, finding noun types in sentences and extracts, making inferences again with a different extract, then a digging deeper making inferences page of tasks, recap on similes, recap on metaphors and then identifying similes and metaphors and creating their own and finally (as before) a self assessment at the end.

This is the SECOND booklet in my Literacy series! It has been designed for KS3 (or maybe KS2) students to recap certain skills to cement their knowledge. This was designed for students struggling with skills for in class intervention and used for homework. It does mention Literacy Booklet 1 (available from my store). There are a range of activities in this booklets like: types of nouns, finding the different types of nouns, making inferences, finding evidence (quotes), adverbs, improving vocabulary and self assessment at the end.

This booklet has been designed for KS3 (or maybe KS2) students to recap certain skills to cement their knowledge. This was designed for students struggling with skills for in class intervention and for homework. There are a range of activities in this booklets like recapping adjectives, verbs, vocabulary, nouns and self-assessment at the end.

This booklet was designed for my students to think about section B or C in Paper 2 and then consider section C and comparing When Will There Be Good News and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. The 12 page booklet contains information and tasks for the students to complete. The booklet contains: A brief summary of WWTBGN Chapter by Chapter task Key quotations from WWTBGN chapter by chapter Central theme in WWTBGN Comparison of WWTBGN and TMORA Links between crime elements in both WWTBGN and TMORA There are multiple tasks to consider as students work through the booklet and my students found this very helpful for their mock exams and exams as they found it focused their attention more.

Included in this booklet is: Tasks and information on introduction and plot with quotations Direct quotations that link to the crime elements Key information on setting, characters, plot and themes/crime elements Revision task ideas - specific to the novel Chapter by Chapter summary of the novel More quotations that could link to the investigation, revelations and the plot Responding to an interpretation for the novel Each section has tasks on them and these are for teaching or revision purposes. My Year 12 class found very useful before the mock exam and they will take this into Year 13. It has helped focus our attention on certain elements and chapters moving forward as well.

This 20-page booklet is to be used for your revision. Throughout there are tasks to complete alongside the contents. Contents of the booklet: Knowledge recall questions split into events and characters Specific knowledge recall quiz split into language features and themes Plot recall Character list – who are they? Key themes Key vocabulary Five quotation clocks to analyse quotes from Act 1 to Act 5 in the play List of more quotations to analyse from the plan Literature exam overview Exam question practices Extra quotation clocks to use

This 18-page booklet takes Key Stage 4 pupils through revision. It contains the below and there are activities on each page to complete. This can be used under a visualiser, for Easter revision at home or alongside lessons before the exam. Contents: Knowledge quiz recall Specific knowledge recall quiz Reminder of the plot Character list – who are they? Key themes to run through Six quotation clocks to analyse from Act 1 to Act 3 List of quotations to analyse AQA Literature exam overview Spare revision quotation clocks to complete

A Christmas Carol Revision Easter School Booklet Can be used for all year round. This 18-page booklet is designed to help with your revision and prepare you for the exams. Contents: Knowledge recall quiz on the novella Plot recall Character list – who are they? Key themes and some tasks to complete Five quotations clocks to complete to analyse key quotes from Stave 1 to Stave 5 List of quotations for your to analyse AQA Literature exam overview Exam questions for practicing Spare quote revision clocks to analyse quotations of your choice

Some of these resources are for paper 2 question 4, English Language A Level directed writing task. Lots of articles included for analysing with the students, for independent work or under a visualiser. Included is also a mark scheme from AQA or a created one for the class to mark their work.

This booklet has been created to be used alongside a PowerPoint (which can be made from this booklet) or on its own. It contains a lot of information for Key Stage 5 or college students on what to do and expect when preparing to live independently. Sections include: Before you leave When looking at halls of residence or renting Cleaning and Hygiene matters Saving on Utilities Medical Matters Duvet Togs Explained Finances: basic information about which ID to need, a student account, ISA and savings account Planning Meals Laundry Labels Top student accounts 2023/2024 ready for research The sections include personal help and experiences alongside hints and tips of what to do to prepare and begin living away from home. It was made to be used for a Key Stage 5 Enrichment programme once a fortnight and the feedback has been that it has proved very useful alongside a lesson and research with students being able to ask questions.

These two PPTs go through how to teach top set students (to be delivered in a hall of set 1s and set 2s) how to adapt their writing ensuring they are focusing on expanding their ideas. Not only does this allow students to explore ideas linking them together, but it also gives them an introduction and first paragraph. It should be noted that these will not be able to be replicated perfectly in the exam, but they should aim high to be able to recreate what they need to in order to gain the top marks.

This scheme of work has been designed to recap the different sentence types and begin to think about how students describe to ensure they are adding description, but looking at the meaning behind the lessons. There are 13 lessons included in this scheme of learning, but some of them are slow writes which mean they can take more than one lesson so there could be roughly 17 out of them. This scheme of work was put in place to ensure students were given time to describe and have a go at writing, but also to look at how they introduce characters and how they can change them. Hope this helps!

This lesson is designed to assist A Level English Language students on preparing to write their commentary element for their coursework. The PPT should be introduced over two lessons and have examples of a commentary attached to it (I have included two examples from my students from previous years). The lesson should be printed (certain slides should be) for the students to follow and assist their own levels of analysis. To plan, get the students to have a look at the language levels that link together then create paragraphs analysing them referencing the style model as they go. My biggest tip would be to get students to write paragraphs based on the language levels first, and then see if they can piece together the essay with those paragraphs. My students seem to discuss the style model too much to begin with, rather than analysing their own work referencing the style models. Hope this helps!

Attached is approximately a 9 lesson scheme for the teaching of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. There is also an 11 page revision booklet that takes students through key quotes linking to the crime genre, key character quotes, general quotes and all have tasks underneath them. The booklet also includes specific revision tasks linking to the crime genre, the investigation and Christie’s authorial intent and it also has activities on the back that link to the overview of the text. Some lessons were substituted by reading and annotating the novel, and some lessons were PowerPoint based and some were worksheet based. After the first few chapters, the worksheets assist the analysis of chapters with clue or misdirections and there are some articles to read to analyse Christie’s writing and her lifestyle, considering how these affected the planning and writing of TMORA.

Here are 8 lessons on Peter Grimes for A Level (annotating will have taken place within these lessons as well). There are a range of PowerPoint slides and worksheets to be completed (either in class, independent study or homework). The lessons focus on lines 1 - 153 with having looked at and annotated lines 1 - 200 in terms of annotating. When teaching this poem for the first time, I found that if I concentrated and took it slowly up to line 153, the class could then feel confident about continuing their own annotations in small groups/pairs and then feeding back to one another.