This resource is aimed at encouraging learners to consider how they start each sentence and to vary it for effect.

Analysing an extract from ‘The Lovely Bones’ with a focus on foreshadowing.

A fun selection of starter activities providing quotes for learners to guess whether they from a famous writer (ie: Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe etc) or song lyrics?

Alternative mix and match language features activity - via powerpoint rather than paper based!

Creative writing lesson working on skill building - sentence starters and showing character emotion.

Analysing an extract from Animal Farm - focusing on language features in the text leading to views on animal rights and speech writing plan.

Multiple choice 20 question English Quiz.

Complete online lesson on animal rights - pitched for an English lesson (I’m using it for my GCSE groups but could be useful for functional skills level two and lower with some scaffolding).

GCSE English Paper 1 lesson plan and powerpoint themed around the hunger games (aimed at AQA).

GCSE English lesson plan & resources (Paper 2 Question 1 &2)

GCSE English lesson plan & resources (Paper 1 Question 3 & 4)

GCSE English article writing powerpoint

Article writing task - pets

GCSE English article writing task around hidden homeless

Introduction lesson/ icebreakers - aimed around English but transferable.

GCSE English paper 1 (fiction) - Vampire resource

GCSE English Monster extract - paper 1

A GCSE English lesson analysising music and linking to literary devices

A short comprehensive guide on structure and how to form an answer around structure in text. Aimed at GCSE English students (AQA but could be transferable to other exam boards or helpful in general for looking at structure).