A skeleton resource to assist with the introduction of teaching CLA to Year 12 students. It goes through a combination of phonemes and graphemes to ensure that they understand how a child is introduced to both. The first lesson also enables the students to reflect on their own personal experiences of learning which they found very useful and understood how their learning impacted them on later life.

I started Reading for Meaning worksheets with my Year 10 students (high ability) to get them analysing what other writers do and why. The questions should be scaffolded and they take the students through some ideas about the writer.

This was created for a Year 9 set with a range of tasks to assist their approach to the unseen poetry scheme of work we were doing. Questions have been scaffolded to aid their learning and understanding. Also used for a Year 10 and Year 11 set when studying unseen poetry.

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

Here are a couple of articles with questions to make Year 12 think about Meanings and Representations. This was sent as independent learning and then discussed in lesson before having a go at answering Q1/Q2 on Paper 1 of the A Level Language paper.

This is 6 lessons worth of a cover booklet focusing on Key Stage 4 AQA English Language Paper 2 and Poetry Tasks. This was set for a low ability group so there may be more than 5 lessons attached.

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 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.

Used as revision and for a mini in lesson test for Paper 1 in Year 10 - used for a mid to low ability set to ease them in with confidence.

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 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!

One lesson that I use to introduce structure to students studying it for the first time. It really helps and film or short movie clips are a great way of tracking structure and thinking about the ideas surrounding it.

These worksheets were used as independent study sessions/homework to ensure that the students were learning outside of the curriculum. Feel free to download and hope they are useful!

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 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.

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 is a creative writing booklet for Paper 1 Question 5 that takes students through how to practice their writing. It has been used as a homework booklet and has spaces to write as well as a self relection on the back. There is text to analyse and pictures to help with their planning or writing.

This lesson goes through the poem for a low ability group. It has activities about the soldier’s feelings, an overview of the poem and then some focused quotation analysis linking to technique finding and why Owen will have written it. Students enjoyed this lesson before going into more detail later on in the year.

Made for a set 3 target grades 4-6 English Literature group. These 5 lessons were designed for a first reading of A Christmas Carol - the lessons took longer than 5 hours as I also used the Disney version to play sections of the film to clarify what was happening, but there was a lot of modelling when we annotated the novella under visualisers and completed an assessment as well. There are close reading sections with an abundance of analysis questions, quotation focus tasks and theme and plot questions too.