A 23 slide PowerPoint on ‘show not tell’ description to engage the reader as well as exploration of a variety of engaging sentence types and openers. Includes: Defining ‘show not tell’. Activity exploring its use and effectiveness in a piece of writing. Activity for students to compare the use of different ‘show not tell’ description in exemplar texts. Engaging sentence opener examples. Activity for students to improve their sentence openers in order to engage a reader. A plenary that consolidates learning surrounding ‘show not tell’ and engaging sentence structures and types.

A 22 slide PowerPoint on thesis statements and topic sentences, understanding them, their importance and how to use them in preparation for extended writing. Includes: Strong and weak exemplar thesis statements. Strong and weak exemplar topic sentences. The ingredients of a thesis statement and its location within an essay. The ingredients of a topic sentences and its location within an essay. How to use both. The differences between topic sentences and thesis statements. An activity on how to spot a strong and weak thesis statement and topic sentence. An activity allowing students to provide their own revision resource for topic sentences and thesis statements.

An analysis lesson for Wilfred Owen’s famous poem ‘Disabled’. Includes differentiated tasks and full annotations. Also includes a poetry analysis checklist and revision material for how to analyse a poem. Easily adaptable, challenging and engaging for pupils of KS3 and KS4!

A 10 slide PowerPoint exploring the ingredients of a solid and engaging film review. Includes an activity for students to analyse a model film review on Bond movie ‘SkyFall’ and a template/plan to begin creating their own! Suitable for primary and secondary age students of both English and Media Studies

A 12 slide lesson on Louis Macneice’s poem ‘Prayer before Birth’ with line by line annotation, and analysis of linguistic and structural features employed by the poet. Also includes a poetry analysis checklist for students to complete, questions to promote student response and a how-to on analysing an unseen poem. Easily adaptable and suitable for KS3/KS4!

A 33 slide lesson on Persuasive writing using DAFOREST TECHNIQUES, asking students to identify persuasive techniques within a model paragraphs and create their own persuasive text before assessing. Easily editable and adaptable but ideally suited to KS3-KS4. Also included, all related resources.

A 16 slide PowerPoint exploring Frost’s poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ in preparation for an Unseen response. Explores the poem itself and how to annotate and includes a checklist for analysing an Unseen Poem.

A 30 slide PowerPoint on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet summarising the plot and central characters with the intention that they will create a storyboard for the play. Engaging images to aid students’ memory and for revision purposes!

A 23 slide PowerPoint on poetic devices and their effect on the reader. Includes: Examples of simile, metaphor, personification, repetition, imagery, onomatopoeia, rhyme and alliteration. Exploration of their effect on the reader. Exploration of why the writer may choose to employ that device in their poem specifically. Activity for students to analyse an unseen poem for poetic techniques - Merrill Glass - 'But you didn't'.

A 21 slide PowerPoint lesson analysing Zephaniah’s poem ‘The British’ - includes thought-provoking questions, engaging video clips and tasks for students to complete in response to the poem. Easily adaptable and suitable for KS2/KS3!

30 engaging tasks for students to complete in the library. I created these little library challenge cards for my boys group who really engaged with them! The idea is that ninjas are silent and focused and a class in the library should be too. These vary in ability and challenge and be easily adapted! Suitable for KS2 or KS3!

A detailed 19 slide PowerPoint lesson on dramatic devices employed by J.B. Priestley within 'An Inspector Calls. Includes a list of dramatic devices within the play as well as tasks for students to identify and analyse devices independently. Lesson ends in questions for students to respond to using a P.E.A. structure (colour coded for difficulty).

A 24 slide PowerPoint exploring and analysing Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’. With contextual detail surrounding the lives of Kipling and those who influenced him, including his son John. Includes a break down of the stanzas and message behind the poem. Suitable for all ages!

Includes a 15 slide PowerPoint on Duffy’s poem ‘Havisham’. Includes detailed annotation of the poem as well as key themes and questions for students to complete as independent study. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem. Engaging and thought-provoking lessons for KS3 and KS4. Easily adaptable for ability!

An 11 slide PowerPoint on Moniza Alvi’s poem ‘An Unknown Girl’, it explores the poet’s background, includes full annotation and differentiated questions for students to respond to the poem. Easily adaptable and suitable for KS3 and KS4!

A 14 slide PowerPoint identifying the DAFOREST persuasive techniques and their effectiveness in persuasive and argument writing. There is a print-off of Emma Watson's HeforShe UN speech for students to identify the techniques in a sample text as well as statements for students to create their own piece of persuasive writing in response. This also includes a DAFOREST techniques checklist that can be printed out and stuck into students' books as a revision resources or for classroom display.

A free resource detailing the criteria for writing a successful newspaper article. Also includes an activity for students to analyse a sample article and identify the WHO WHAT WHERE WHY WHEN and HOW key information.

An 18 slide PowerPoint exploring William Wordsworth’s ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’, better known as ‘The Daffodils’. Suitable for KS3-KS5!

A free resource allowing students to both design their own book cover and blurb or also help to create a poster on a favourite book of their choice - Perfect for World Book Day or a Reading Week display!

An alphabetical list of interesting and alternative adjectives for students to use to develop their vocabulary. Suitable for all ages. Can be easily differentiated