These are the PowerPoints that I rolled out to my school as part of my role as whole school Literacy co-ordinator. The task on each PowerPoint should last about 25 minutes; the remainder of the lesson spent reading for enjoyment. Within each PowerPoint you have a differentiated task for year 7,8 &9. I have more week-by-week focuses; look in my shop :)

Students can use this colourful resource to look at the director's interpretation when watching a film version

An engaging scheme of work that was specifically designed to engage boys Lots of non-fiction texts in this SOW with the theme of extreme sports Videos, extracts, PowerPoints and Videos accompany this PP

A simple resource

Print, laminate and cut out An extremely useful and colourful display for the KS3/KS4 classroom

This is a nice little resource to use that will get students using their inference skills. The students have to match the small section of the text to the relevant illustration. This works well for students cutting them out and sticking them onto A3.

A structured worksheet to help with empathetic writing The resource contains a differentiated version too

A revision resource that shows students what they need to write about in each paragraph of their essays on poetry. The PETAL structure details how they need to structure each one of those paragraphs.

Structured revision sheet for Poppies. Best printed on A3.

This whole scheme of work includes PowerPoints, Images, SOW and much more The end piece is a descriptive narrative piece

As it says in the title :)

A range of themed images to prompt students to focus on specific detail

Great starter image to allow students to draw inferences from

Looking at a question b based around superstition

The 1st PowerPoint can be delivered in a number of ways and there are many questions based around the main characters that enable learners to empathise with them. The 2nd PowerPoint then focuses on the female characters and the planning and writing of an empathetic response. This could possibly be used over 3 lessons.

This lesson looks at a past exam question that focuses around the songs and music in the play Blood Brothers. You can access the CD for the songs for free on YouTube to accompany this lesson.

A colourful multi-paged revision task booklet. There are many tasks/revision questions on each page that can be used for students to complete as homework tasks, classroom tasks or simply for revision. All ideas are linked to what may come up in their exam.

Engaging PowerPoint

A fully resourced scheme of work with the theme of 'The Supernatural' The scheme is aimed at KS3 and teaches the skills of letter writing to argue The scheme is extremely engaging and there's lots of interesting materials It has been created to support the changes in the National Curriculum It's an eight week scheme with a PowerPoint for every lesson There's also a keen focus on progress and lots of AFL in there too

These odd bits are all what I have created to aid a descriptive/narrative scheme of work with the theme Gothic Horror. There's a planning sheet with titles Links and clips to interesting videos on YouTube Narrative writing conventions card sort Identifying conventions in actual examples