A full KS3 Scheme of Work (15 lessons - 53 PowerPoint slides) which covers various different writing skills, as well as differentiated comprehension questions, designed to guide students through the play script adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s ’Noughts and Crosses’. Initially created for a high ability Year 8 group, it could easily work with high ability Year 7 students or else be adapted for other levels. The Scheme of Work includes planning that builds towards a creative writing assessment, as well as preparation for a KS3 speaking and listening performance assessment.

A full KS3 PowerPoint Scheme of Work (15 lessons - 51 slides) which covers various different analytical skills, as well as differentiated comprehension questions, designed to guide students through Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ Initially created for a mixed ability Year 9 group, it could easily work with high ability Year 8 students or could even work as the basis for GCSE teaching of the play. The Scheme of Work includes planning that builds towards an analytical reading assessment. For information on contextual information on Puritanism, which is the basis of one lesson, please visit the website Sparknotes, by googling ‘Sparknotes, context, puritans’. The first result offers information which can be printed out for students to work with.

A full lesson to help students develop their comprehension and creative writing skills using the opening of Act 3, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (3 PowerPoint slides). Aimed at a high-ability Year 7 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a Year 8 class too.

A lesson to help students develop an understanding of the opening to Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ (3 powerpoint slides). Aimed at a mixed-ability Year 9 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a high-ability Year 8 class too.

A full lesson (3 slides of tasks plus one homework info slide) to help students begin to understand and analyse Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale. Aimed at a high-ability Year 8 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a Year 9 class too (or instead offer ideas for how to access the text with older students). Please note: a copy of the text is not included, there are lots of free modern translations of the original available online.

A KS3 English PowerPoint Scheme of Work - 15 fully planned lessons (40+ slides) - for the playscript version of Frakenstein (adapted by Philip Pullman). The lessons cover various different writing skills, as well as comprehension questions designed to guide students through the text. Suitable for a high-ability Year 7 group, it could also be easily adapted for weaker students as well.

A full and comprehensive PowerPoint Scheme of Work (20 planned lessons - 73 PowerPoint slides) for ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’, aimed at a high ability KS4 group, although it could easily be adapted for weaker groups as well. The SoW comes with additional handout resources as well as a mock question paper.

A full A-level/IB lesson on Jackie Kay’s ‘The Right Season’ designed to prepare students for KS5 essay writing (3 slides of tasks plus homework activities).

A full lesson (3 PowerPoint slides) designed to support students in understanding Conan Doyle’s use of structure in ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’, designed to be used once reading and initial analysis of the short story has been completed. Aimed at a high-ability Year 8 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a Year 9 class too.

A full lesson to introduce students to ideas and features of detective fiction. Aimed at a high-ability Year 8 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a Year 9 class too. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed to support students in analysing Conan Doyle’s characterisation of Dr Roylott in ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’, which focuses particularly on his meeting with Holmes and Watson. Aimed at a high-ability Year 8 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a Year 9 class too. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed to support students in analysing Conan Doyle’s use of settings and suspense in ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’. Aimed at a high-ability Year 8 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a Year 9 class too. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

Two full KS3 lessons on advertising and still adverts, designed to help students learn how to analyse their presentational features. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full KS3 lesson on advertising and creating a product, designed to help students learn how to analyse their presentational features.

A full KS3 lesson on Celebrity advertising, designed to help students learn how to analyse their presentational features. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full KS3 lesson on TV Advertising, designed to help students learn how to analyse their presentational features. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson aimed at a high ability Year 7 group which could easily be adapted to a Year 8 group as well. The lesson introduces students to poetic techniques as well as the PEEL paragraph writing structure. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed to support students in analysing Conan Doyle’s use of clues towards the start of the story. Aimed at a high-ability Year 8 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a Year 9 class too. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed to support students in analysing Conan Doyle’s presentation of Holmes and Watson at the start of the story. Aimed at a high-ability Year 8 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a Year 9 class too. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full KS3 Scheme of Work (15 lessons - 52 PowerPoint slides) which covers various different analytical skills, as well as differentiated comprehension questions, designed to guide students through Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Initially created for a high ability Year 8 group, it could be easily adapted to work with other KS3 year groups. The Scheme of Work includes planning that builds towards an analytical Reading assessment as well as a Speaking and Listening performance. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson aimed at a high ability Year 7 group which could be easily adapted to a Year 8 group as well. The lesson consolidates knowledge of poetic techniques such as similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia and personification. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!