This fully differentiated lesson, with support and challenge sheets, teaches students how to identify and employ onomatopoeia.

This fully differentiated lesson teaches students to identify, explore the effect of and employ sibilance.

This lesson asks students to create their own spinner to use in future creative writing lessons. The spinner would be best printed on card.

This lesson explores narrative hooks and how to use them in creative writing. It has a set of lower and higher ability cards for sorting.

This lesson teaches students about anaphora through identification in examples and exploration of the effect. The tasks are fully differentiated to bronze, silver and gold levels, with support and challenge sheets included.

Inspire your students by having them compete against each other in teams for house points or prizes. This Powerpoint requires students to work in teams and work together to answer each question. They should have one whiteboard and pen per team - the team captain should present their answer when asked. This is easily enough for a one hour lesson, but most probably enough for two hours.

A range of lessons that cover simple, compound and complex sentences and lists in order to help under-attaining students grasp sentence control. The unit takes students through the different types of sentences, explaining how they are constructed and securing knowledge through a range of application tasks. Suitable for 7 - 16 years, but especially useful for students working below their levels due to poor sentence control. I used these with Years 7-9 to good effect. The lessons are suitable for whole class or small group work with a TA (laptop or screen must be available to view the slides.)

Game instructions: Use counters as Tiddlywinks. When you land on a space, you must say explain: Which poem it is from, a meaning or idea that is inferred by the quote, a device used in the quote and its effect. For a bonus point, compare it to another quote on the game board (poetry) or explain the context (Macbeth). Bronze – 1 point Silver – 2 points Gold – 3 points If you pass, the person on your left or your opponent may attempt your turn an d claim the points. Anyone in the team may attempt the bonus comparison point after the turn has been played. This resource needs to be printed on A3 paper.

With the ever-increasing need for personalised learning, the scheme of work that is written by the Head of Department and shared across the department in a dying breed. Instead, teachers must plan their own medium-term and short-term plans to meet the needs of the students in their classes, which, considering extensive national changes over the past year or so, can be a daunting task for teachers of all levels of experience. This medium-term tracking grid supports teachers in their planning by: •listing all the Assessment Objectives for Language and Literature on the first page to prompt coverage and also to provide a list for teachers to cut and paste from. •beginning the planning with the completion of a progression matrix, effectively highlighting areas of under-performance and opportunities for support and challenge •Space for bullet point ideas of each week’s lessons, with a corresponding column for assessment objectives covered •Space for teachers to identify milestone or assessment tasks. The planning grid also works well when combined with the tracking grids for reading and writing, allowing teachers to assess students’ abilities against each assessment objective or skill and plan accordingly.

This writing mat, which should be printed on A3 couble sided and laminated for future use, has all the methods listed in DAFOREST around the edge of the page with examples. These devices are coloured coded (bronze for easy, silver for more difficult and gold for higher ability.) Use them as a guide to encourage students to include persuasive devices in their own writing, or use to support the annotation of texts by other writers. There is a space in the middle of the mat for students to place paper or they could practice writing phrases on the mats with whiteboard pens if the sheets are laminated. A handy planning grid is also provided, along with a writing to persuade lesson, ready made for you to trial your new resources.

This PowerPoint contains 87 key quotes from Macbeth for display around the classroom or school, for sorting into order or simply for displaying and discussing. There are far more quotes than you need, allowing you to choose the quotes that are important for your class.

This is another lesson that helps students create an effective piece of writing using the DADWAVERS structure, but also incorporating different elements of sentence structures such as embedded clauses and fronted adverbials. The lesson includes a timer on the spinning wheel slides, encouraging students wo work quickly. Suitable for writing portfolio lessons at KS2 and all the way to exam preparation at GCSE level.

A Powerpoint that clearly explains the three tenses, with examples and activities, including a worksheet with answers.

This session explains what is required of students in the final section of AQA Literature Paper 2. It incorporates an activity advised at the AQA Hub Meeting, where students work in groups to produce a poster based on a poem displayed on the wall - however, only one student is allowed to visit the poem at a time. The student should then bring back key words, images, methods, etc., to add to the poster. The posters are then presented to the class, or if in a bigger group, to another group of students. This effectively conveys the message that all responses are appropriate and that everyone can access a poem in some way. This could be run in a Hall with multiple students, in a classroom or as small group intervention. Th second part of the lesson covers the comparison question, making sure that students understand to only write about methods. It includes a writing frame and modelled examples using the AQA endorsed structure of ‘both, both, however’. This lesson could easily be repeated again and again with different poems.

This lesson is the most efficient way I’ve ever found to teach students how to answer the structure question. It teaches students exactly how to explain the effects of structure, useful subject terminology and what the examiner is looking for. It is delivered through experiential learning, where the class write a class text following my prompts and then analyse this piece of work for structural choices. It is a very easy but effective way to deliver the key messages. You will need a big sheet of paper to display the class story, another whiteboard or you could use another Powerpoint or word slide and flip between the two (not the best option, but could be done). It naturally leads on to students writing their own stories that have conscious structural choices, which they can then analyse. I have also included two texts that could be analysed are free extracts of stories on lovereading.com Please leave me some feedback to let me know how you got on with it. Lindsey

This collection includes: five full Paper 2s in both PDF and Word format, allowing you to tailor questions or format to your taste (including two additional papers that are listed as free on this page - ‘Teaching’ and ‘Refuse Collectors’) a front sheet for use with the papers, featuring the relevant boundaries from summer 2017 and 2018 (allowing students to see how close they were to the next band). an easy examiner mark sheet for each question, based on my experience of the drag and drop screen when marking as an examiner. Simply use a highlighter to indicate where skills have been met and staple or glue to students’ papers. These are useful feedback sheets for day-to-day exam practice. If you have found these resources useful, please leave feedback.

Here are 15 AQA Paper 1 (narrate or describe) style writing assessments that are suitable for both KS3 and KS4.

A lesson that identifies and explores foreshadowing, followed by an opportunity to read a class text and look for examples of foreshadowing. The final task is differentiated and links closely to the demands of the new GCSE spec, so would be useful for both KS3 and KS4. The lesson is concluded with a reflection activity. This lesson is part of a 12 lesson bundle for sale on TES at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/class-reader-generic-lessons-x-12-bundle-set-1-analysing-the-author-s-craft-11347361 The current TES system won't allow thumbnails of the Powerpoints, but all of the lessons are of this standard.

A paper that looks at a Guardian report of a recent peaceful gathering of crowds to protest about pollution and a description of attending a hanging by Charles Dickens. Very topical in light of yesterday’s march the People’s Vote and news footage could be viewed to give students some context and to engage the in an initial debate.

This is a resource I developed which aims to guide students through the production of a piece of work that contains most elements required in the English Language GCSE exam (Paper 1 for AQA). Let me know if you give it a go and what the results are. If you find it successful, we could even produce a webpage showcasing the results.