This is the first section of a whole scheme of work on Of Mice and Men, I created it this year, with attention to making sure that the Ofsted 2011 guidelines were being expemplified. The lessons structure reading the book from before reading to after and each of the early lessons covers different sectionhs of the book. They can all be taught togetether or you could choose to dip and pick as each can be adpated and can standalone. I can olny upload 20 bits to 1 resource feed, but the rest are on here.

This is a full lesson PowerPoint that utilizes reading image work and is based on the description / images within a market place. Aimed at middle school but could be used for early High School students.

This is either a full lesson PP or an exam booklet that can be printed off for pupils. it consists of example answers for the new exam with mark schemes that encourage pupils to work out what the pupil scored. All our foundation C grade answers - showing pupils what to do to get the C. I get the pupils to sit the mock exam paper before looking at the examples.

This is a grid that maps the different APP strands / AFs against the differnt level descriptors in FS English - usefu; when creating assessments.

These are the first 18 lessons of a scheme of work that I created last year for DNA by Dennis Kelly. It is aimed at a year 9 class, as the idea is that I am starting to prepare them for GCSE Literature. Therefore, the scheme is a mix of analysis and playing with the text too. I've used a variety of ideas to teach it. All lessons are complete lessons in themselves but you may wish to adapt / cut apart and mix them up, especially if you want to use for GCSE. The remaining lessons will also be uploaded under the same heading

This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded for 6th Grade students with a generic theme of "Place Poetry" running through them. All are ready to teach as standalone lessons. This particular lesson covers the poem Island Man

Ideal for test preparation with visual stimulus and revision techniques.

These are a selection of lessons with their resources ready to teach on the IGCSE specifiation. It's my first time of teaching it this year and I&'ve taken a skills based approach. Hopefully, these will help others delivering the same qualification for the first time this year - should save hours for other teachers in my position, so please do rate them if you like them!

This is a full and detailed lesson that covers the psychology of colour, image use, denotation and connotation. Ideal for media Studies as well as English. For English specifically, it is designed to support pupils when writing about Presentational devices and features.

This is a full lesson on PP that explains how to compare poems - great for the unseen poem on the new AQA specification in Lit.

Luckily, we will never be in the position again where I have to teach 2 specifications at the same time to the same class. However, this is the scheme that I created last year when this was the approach adopted by the Head. Although these lessons are aimed at both specs, the full scheme is more IGCSE skills and texts than the AQA. My AQA scheme will be uploaded as a separate entity. 2 of these texts, I've uploaded before but the whole scheme makes sense when uploaded together. The first lessons are uploaded separately.

This is one of many 'Of Mice and Men' resources that I have collected over the years of teaching the novel. I've taught it for various exam boards and in schools in various parts of the country and all will be of some use. You may wish to adopt the Powerpoint lessosn to what your teaching 'slant' / topic is, but I hope they will be of use. For ease of finding, all are listed under the novel title.

Non Fiction Writing – Bill Bryson informational reading.

It contextualizes the poem "Havisham" - offering a functional way into it by setting up students as social workers trying to work out what has happened to the woman and why this poem is her suicide note.

This is a full lesson PP - ready to teach - although you may wish to change / differentiate to your own context on the above named topic. This lesson is one of serveral that create a scheme of lessons about Victorian Crime but all can operate as stand alone lessons and I have uploaded them all with the same title stem for ease of finding. This lesson covers what sensationalism is and how it is designed to effect the reader.

This is one of the homework booklets that we've created for pupils in school. The year and level is indicated in the title. It covers essential English skills.

Essay title is: Compare the characters of Mrs Kay and Mr Briggs from Willy Russell’s ‘Our Day Out’. Whose style of teaching do you think is best for the Progress Class? and the plan has sentence starters to support pupils in writing about the play.

I have uploaded 20 lessons in this series in total - each with it's own resources where relevant. Each lesson Powerpoint can be taught as a standalone lesson, or used within the series. These are brand new lessons and they structure the reading of the novel, whilst analyzing it. This lesson covers the chapter entitled, "The Journey North".

"Night of the Scorpions" Analysis

This is a full lesson PP with a L/O: To practice techniques that will improve creative writing