Three fully planned lessons that center on creative writing. A lovely introduction to ‘A Monster Calls’ scheme of work or as a fun creative writing project for your students. The first lesson looks at Monsters in Literature, the second lesson looks at creating a monster and the final lesson brings everything together when students compare their own creations to those in literature.

This quick and fun activity will be sure to have your students engaged! Using the worksheet students will select a word from categories A through to C in order to create a Shakespearian insult. This could be used as an icebreaker activity or as a fun way to start or end your lesson…who can come up with the best insult?

This lesson focuses on chapter nine and ten in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The resource contains multiple comprehension activities. Learners will look at Simon’s character, how leadership changes on the island and respond to an essay style question, explore metaphors in the novel and complete a dual coding/symbolism activity. With seventeen slides worth of activities, there is something for everyone to enjoy.

This resource contains seven weeks worth of home learning tasks aimed at KS3 students. The theme follows Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rodes with each week of home learning containing three unique tasks that include dual coding, essay style questions or language terminology focus. This is sure to save you time planning and this resource could also be used as a stretch and challenge or extension activity for learners.

This resource contains seven weeks worth of homework tasks! These activities are aimed at KS3 and KS4 learners and center around the theme of Romeo and Juliet. Each week contains three fun activities to stretch learners and get them thinking outside the box. Activities include dual coding, essay style questions and language technique recaps as an example. This will save you so much time with your planning and will hopefully encourage your learners to get their homework in on time!

A full lesson focusing on Romeo and Juliet Act 1 and Act 2 Romeo’s soliloquy. This is the next lesson following on from ‘Act 1’ and looks more closely at how Shakespeare presents different kinds of love. The lesson provides a dual coding activity, summaries of key parts of the play and a chance to explore Romeos soliloquy and comparing this to Juliet’s speech.

A full lesson exploring Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet. Explores the downfalls of both Romeo and Juliet, Includes a quick fire test and a chance to explode a quote that has been preselected to give learners the opportunity to explore and analyze Shakespeare’s language.

A complete lesson covering the plot and context of Romeo and Juliet. The lesson explores symbolism, the main plot and has a range of activities for students to complete. A great lesson for KS3 and KS4 and can be adapted to fit students needs.

Comprehension questions on the Graveyard book alongside a character profile activity. A concise PowerPoint that could be used as a filler lesson, starter activity or reading intervention.

This is a straight forward creative writing task based around the BLM movement. This is a great activity for KS3 and KS4 classes and can also be a brilliant cover or filler lesson.

A lesson focused on improving students debating skills. Students look at images to improve inference skills, explore arguing both sides of an argument and what a good argument looks like.

This lesson focuses on improving narrative writing. Students are asked to create a realistic character that they can drop into a scenario. Brilliant lesson for focusing on skills for language paper one question five on the AQA exam. Only PowerPoint included.

This is a fully completed lesson focusing on improving creative writing through the art of re-drafting. Students are encouraged to focus on different aspects of their writing in the re-drafting process and look at what makes their writing more fine tuned. This is perfect for KS3 and KS4 students. Perfect lesson for exploring language paper one question five skills.

Seven weeks worth of comprehensive home learning tasks to use alongside the ‘Ghost Boys’ book. These tasks focus on features of writing, language techniques and debate questions.

This is a bundle of PowerPoints that introduces students to cultural poetry. It includes the poems: Blessing, Island Man and Night of the Scorpion. The Powerpoints are designed to help students to gain skills such as: inference, thinking about the writers intentions, picking out key themes etc. All of the PowerPoints are designed as full lessons.

This PowerPoint is designed to go through the poem Night of the Scorpion. The PowerPoint follows through the method of VIPERS and teaches students key skills such as: inference, explaining effect and the writers intentions.

This PowerPoint goes through the poem discussing context and language techniques. This can be used as a full lesson. The PowerPoint uses the VIPERS method of analysing poetry and teaches students skills such as: Inference, explaining effects of language and thinking about writers intentions.

This PowerPoint is designed to introduce students to cultural poetry units. It goes through what culture is and what culture means to your students. It then gives a detailed unit overview as well as providing activities and homework tasks.

This worksheet is designed to recap over language techniques. Students are prompted to give an example and a definition of a range of language techniques.

A comprehensive PowerPoint going through the poem Island Man. This includes information about the poet, activities for students to complete and an analysis of the poem.