A nice simple lesson to help students practice their creative writing skills. Based on a bright, colourful image of the jungle filled with animals, nature and water. Focusing on describing the sensory imagery they may encounter, upgrading ‘boring’ vocabulary and creating their own linguistic devices. Good for a range of abilities with clear scaffolding - which can also be edited on the Word document. Good for a self-explanatory cover lesson.

Macbeth Powerpoint with two worksheets. PowerPoint has key information on each character and their role. This links with the character map that shows the relationships between all the main characters. The PowerPoint also has a scene by scene analysis - giving an overview of what happens in each Act and Scene. This goes nicely with the plot overview sheet. Great for revision or creating a solid base of plot and characters before reading the play.

A worksheet and PowerPoint to assist understanding and knowledge of the characters in Animal Farm. Really useful for at the beginning of the novella to assist students in understanding each of the characters, what they represent and the allegory that Orwell wanted to present.

A creative writing activity to help develop sensory descriptions and higher level vocabulary. Looking at how the sherbet lemons: look, taste, feel, sound and smell. Sweet can be substituted for another sweet (or healthier) option! Really fun lesson to do with students!

A poem for KS3 from Tupac - The Rose That Grew From Concrete. PPT to go through poetry analysis and editable worsksheet to focus on analysis.

KS3 poem looking at Bill Bryson’s poem - Refugees. Includes worksheet to accompany lesson.

15 Sheets of the poems asking students to fill in the important details from each poem.

A poem and worksheet looking at England in 1819 by Percy Shelley

A poem based on Black History Month (although can be used at other times!) based on Benjamin Zephaniah’s poem No Problem Comes as a full lesson explaining dialect and colloquialism, gives information of Zephaniah and his life and a worksheet with prompting questions. (the questions can be edited, removed or adapted to suit specific class needs.

A family tree of the characters in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. A good introduction to the characters to see how they fit in in the play or a good revision sheet to fill with key points and quotes! PowerPoint describing each character and worksheet.

71 page booklet revising AQA English Language Paper 1 Contains: Break downs of each question. Q1-5 How to answer them. Space to answer. Several questions to practise skills with varying extracts. Guided exam paper. Exam Paper.

Simple yet effective revision. Includes! -Plot -Characters -Themes -Context -Tier 3 relevant vocabulary Key quotations

Simple yet effective revision. Includes! -Plot -Characters -Themes -Context -Tier 3 relevant vocabulary Key quotations

Simple yet effective revision. Includes! -Plot -Characters -Themes -Context -Tier 3 relevant vocabulary Key quotations

Cards to give student the various roles when using the reciprocal reading strategy.

A sheet to aid students to upgrade their sentences. Put the sentence you want to upgrade in the centre and use the boxes around to guide them into creating interesting sentences that avoid repetition of ‘the’, ‘a’, ‘then’ etc…

Simple sheet describing word classes with examples.