A series of lessons designed to highlight the use of language in journalism. This is a particularly useful resource for helping students to understand how writers use specific language for their audiences. It also benefits the students in writing their own texts as they come to understand the purpose, audience and form. The series of lessons are based around investigative journalism and give students the opportunity to discuss their own ideas and do research based on their ideas.

Designed to originally be part of an Enrichment Programme at a school, these 3 lessons contain basic Spanish elements like the difference between ser/estar and some general animal vocabulary. Intended age range is EAL Secondary, but with high level KS2 or high level 4th-5th grade would also be fine. Lesson 3 includes a print out of a crossword and picture activity that can be printed double sided.

This scheme of work is designed to help students understand and create NON-FICTION texts. The scheme of work is designed around travel brochures with the end goal of an assessment in which students create a travel brochure. The lessons include DAFORREST and SOAPSME techniques as well as a breakdown of how to create a front cover and the middle pages of a brochure. The scheme of work did originally include a back cover lesson, but it was far too simple and consisted solely of drawing, which did not add to the linguistic learning. This was replaced with an interactive lesson in which there are sheets about countries like Thailand, Spain, Italy etc printed off and students have to go around the room and fill in their worksheets about each country. This stimulates them to think about the countries that they want to visit and helps with the creation of a non-fiction text!

A lesson and examplar to show students how to write epistolary writing. This was first used for a GCSE class, but has been adapted to be used for KS3/EAL learners too. If you wanted to go further into the interactivity, you could put the districts into a hat or wheel and assign a random district to students (though this requires some knowledge of The Hunger Games).

A set of of 4 Literacy Based Poems and stories intended to be used during Tutor time / D.E.A.R time. There is one poem to kick start the discussion of inference and then a story begins about a cat named Silver Mane. These stories are intended to be episodic. The first THREE episodes are uploaded here along with questions to ask students after reading. This is designed to improve literacy among High School students, but could easily be used with KS2 (UK) and MYP (USA/CANADA).

This lesson is about character development, and was originally designed for the IGCSE First Language Coursework Narrative section. However, it could definitely be use for any age group with a capable level of English from Year 7 - Year 11. This would be extremely beneficial for any students doing any for of narrative writing or GCSE.

This lesson is an introduction to poetry for KS3 students, but can also be used to KS4, Literacy, iGCSE, GCSE, MYP, PYP or English Language Learning. Printing slide 5 on A3 paper is the most effective as students have something physical in front of them to write on, though sharing through Classroom, Drive or Teams is also effective.

This is a lesson on types of narration. Aimed at First Language Cambridge Students, this could easily be used for any students with good English to teach narrative types. The final slide is a worksheet to be printed and cut from which students create their own character.

A series of 21 lessons that cover the basics of the IELTS examination, from speaking, listening, reading and writing. It works better if you have the official IELTS book to go along with the lessons as some of the exercises are directly related, however, the book cannot be shared for obvious copyright reasons.

This lesson is designed to teach iGCSE First Language Cambridge students about Narrative Structures, but can also be used for MYP, KS3, KS4 students as well. The lesson is originally designed to give students direction in their coursework, but would be beneficial to teach children about story structures in general lessons too.