How can I check that my pupils are continuing to develop their knowledge from my lessons? This quick, one page, dual coded list provides you with 12 strategies you can use with all pupils. From Do Now retrieval practice tasks to engaging self assessment ideas, this is a useful document to pop into your planner and use in your planning adapting of lessons.

Great for any English lesson KS2 - KS4 Includes: board game, instructions, sentence cards and word cards all included. This board game is played in pairs or individually and helps students create descriptive writing pieces whilst consciously crafting. Great for first drafts and to allow students to think one sentence at a time. All you need is counters and a dice!

A handy one page, dual coded strategy list to support new and developing teachers in classroom management. Quick and easy to refer to. You can leave it in your planner as a reminder for yourself or in lesson if you want to adapt and respond in the moment. From nuances of tone of voice to responding to those pupils who need that extra reminder, these strategies cover several areas to test out and implement in your classroom.

This growth mindset unit is 9 x 20 minute sessions long. Some could be extended to two sessions. It helps the students understand their mindset in the view of learning. The activities aim to challenge students' views of learning and know what it feels like to work on tasks whilst staying in a growth mindset.

This PDF can help student identify their mindset at school and the the potential of their thinking and the impact it can have on their learning.

This 99 page booklet is created with the Language GCSE exam in mind. Focusing on the aspects of narratives needed for paper 1, it takes the student through conventions, themes and novel type in the 19th Century. The formula follows - opening chapter of a piece of 19th century literature followed by 2 page of A01, A02 and A04 analysis questions. This is a great resource for homework, revision, flipped learning or to structure a scheme of learning.

These posters will help students understand and identify a variety of language features from the most simple: nouns and verbs, to the more complex: portmanteau, paralipsis and hypophora. Each poster has a definition along with an example.

This is a collection of Do Now or starter activities (all examples from my own teaching in English) They are connected to The Learning Scientists theory with the reference link in the first slide. Each idea is not new but draws on the science and has an example from something i’ve adapted or made myself. Lots are adaptable and NOT JUST FOR USE IN ENGLISH

Ever get to the latter end of a scheme or work and want the pupils to be more independent and spend more time demonstrating their learning? Want to find more creative ways than just ‘write a paragraph’? This one page, dual coded strategy list gives you ideas for how to engage pupils in using their learning so far in a variety of contexts and ways. These can work in a variety of subject and phrase areas too!

This resource can be used as training for small department meetings to introduce or recap Growth Mindset.

22 Macbeth posters to help students revise some key quotations of the play.

My version of the amazing resources being shared on Twitter. My version is also free and hopefully when put together with others people have shared - there will be an unlimited supply of writing challenges for your to use. Word of caution with my resource, the first 40 or so are completed, however the latter examples are for you to add your own criteria and sophisticated language.