Complete 6-7 lesson SOL for Drama and/or practical based English. Explores Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play) through engaging Frantic Assembly techniques and drama skills, alongside physical theatre activities. Includes edited script extracts, clear powerpoints and SOL overview.

A booklet which explores with tasks transnational writing, this can be a self contained unit of work or a homework. Includes exam examples and support work.

Are you an EAL Teacher or Teaching Assistant? Are you worried of what to teach your new arrivals with very little English or no English language understanding? I have created Scheme of Work for Autumn Term 1 and 2 with Worksheets which has Ten-Tasks to complete, which includes from when to use Capital letters and singular/plurals. Thank you for purchasing this resource, if you find it easy to follow and would like SOW for the year, please leave a message.

AQA GCSE English Literature SOW for Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English’, fully resourced with: 28 PowerPoints, glossary of ‘pidgin’ terms guided reading questions, learning questions student examples assessment questions

Lessons on: Setting Description of a monster Tension Story arc Gothic elements Includes extracts from: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Brothers Grimm A Christmas Carol Dracula Frankenstein The Kraken by Tennyson Northanger Abbey The Red Room The Sandman The Tell Tale Heart The Woman in Black

14 lesson SOW with worksheets on Patrick Ness' 'A Monster Calls'. Aimed at mixed ability Year 8 students but appropriate for other years.

SOW for Romeo and Juliet. 21 lessons all containing the key skills for preparing classes for the AQA GCSE exam. Can be used for Y8. y9, y10 or y11 as has differentiated task for each lesson linked to assessment objectives and success criteria. The SOW is thematically planned instead of chronologically to prepare students to link different parts of the the play linked to love, conflict or family (it can be taught in scene order if you prefer). Students will develop their skills and confidence in responding to a Shakespeare text and develop skills towards the GCSE English Literature- AO1, AO2, AO3 Paper 1- Section A GCSE exam on Shakespeare. Week 1: INTRO AND PROLOGUE AO3 • LO1 What is the difference between FICTION AND NON FICTION? What is the difference between prose, poetry and plays? • LO2 How well can I understand the historical context of Shakespeare? • LO3 What is the purpose of the prologue? What key themes can I predict? Week 2-3 AO1 • LO4-6 What are the key events in the play? Week 3-4: Conflict AO1 • LO7 How is conflict introduced in ‘Romeo and Juliet’?- Act 1 Sc 1 • LO8 How is Tybalt presented in ‘Romeo and Juliet’? Act 1 Sc 1 and 5 • LO9 What is Mercutio’s role in the play?- Act 3 Sc 1 • LO10 How does Shakespeare present conflict- Act 5 Sc 3 Week 5-6: Family AO3 • LO11 How are women presented in the play? Act 1 Sc 2 and 3 • LO12 How well can I explore the issue of arranged marriages? Act 3 Sc 5 • LO13 How are leaders portrayed in the play? Act 1 Sc 1 and Act 5 Sc 3 Week 7-8: Love • LO14-15 How does Romeo use language to describe love?- Act 1 Sc 1 • LO15-16 How do Romeo use language to describe love when meeting Juliet?- Act 1 Sc 5 • LO17 How does Juliet use language to describe love? Act 2 Sc 2 • LO18 How does Juliet use language to describe love? Act 3 Sc 2 • LO19 What does Shakespeare say about love through his ending? Act 5 Sc 3 Week 9- AO1, AO2 and AO3 • LO20 How does Shakespeare create dramatic tension? • LO21 How does Shakespeare create dramatic irony? Week 10-11 • LO22-24 How well can I revise key extracts? Week 12: ASSESSMENT Assessment

Scheme of work based on Zana Fraillon’s The Bone Sparrow. Range of activities including comprehension, creative writing and language practice. Aimed at Year 7/8. No printing required - ideal for Covid-19 and remote learning.

Full scheme of work for the book ´I Am Malala´ with resources. This SOW is designed to build skills for the language paper GCSE and includes starter tasks that develop English language and grammar skills across the scheme. Suitable for Year 8 and 9 and year 7 with some adaption. This scheme is based around double lessons lasting around 100 minutes, but can be edited for shorter lessons easily.

21 Powerpoints and scheme of work overview Covers reading/teaching of whole novel Reading and writing assessment opportunities included Success Criteria/scaffolding throughout Range of activities and resources to choose from, providing excellent challenge and effective differentiation Originally designed for higher ability KS3 teaching, based on GCSE AO criteria, also well suited to GCSE level teaching Please do leave a review if you can - all feedback much appreciated!

An introduction aimed at Year 9 students (high ability) to Shakespeare. I was asked to write a scheme of work to avoid the gap we had between students studying Shakespeare in Year 8 and then never again until Year 11. This unit encompasses extracts from: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing and the Merchant of Venice. The final assessment is based on an extract from Titus and Andronicus. The question is also based on Question Four of Paper One of the English Language GCSE (AQA). There is a mix of questions aimed also at Question Five of Paper Two AQA GCSE and the Literature exam. I haven’t put the introductory lesson on here as I actually adapted it from someone else’s resource on the TES. Please contact if you would like a link to that resource. Have fun!

This is a bank of 26 lessons (or more depending on the time provided for the two writing tasks) that explore detective fiction using extracts from Agatha Christie and Arthur Conon Doyle. There is also one extract from Wilkie Collins’ “Woman in White” as this is a useful SOW to proceed the teaching of novel, “The Woman in White”. Each lesson contains: a thinking starter a thinking plenary a writing or reading task (including poetry) group work, paired work or individual work open ended tasks where more able students can be extended while those in need of differentiation can also be supported using the numerous resources provided The writing tasks in the unit are based on writing a detective story and a film review of the Sherlock Holmes film. The students are also given the chance to compare and contract TV detectives from the UK and America and extracts from Perry Mason and Murder She Wrote are hyperlinked for easy use. There is a workbook to accompany the SOW - sold as a bundle with this SOW and separately Enjoy!

This SoW takes students from the Romans' departure from Britain to the BBC newsreader, via Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Renaissance drama, & Victorian novelists. One powerpoint covers Old & Middle English, the other covers Early Modern and Late Modern English. Please rate & comment! Lessons: Beowulf - monsters, mates & kennings Manuscripts - celebrating awesomeness Vicious Viking, posh Noble & poor Peasant Conversations Canterbury Tales - acting & updating Printing Press posters King Arthur & Bestiaries Renaissance Drama (Jonson, Lyly & Shakespeare) - independent work & reading assessment Dickens research project & literary caricatures Scandalous Victorian Newspaper Stories Penny Dreadful creative writing Time Travel Novels - The Lost World & The Time Machine: reading, writing & comparing Ingenious Inventions & etymology Words of the World Stream of Consciousness BBC RP

A full scheme of work teaching the content and comprehension of ‘Blood Brothers’ by Willy Russell for GCSE exam board AQA. Designed to teach to a middle ability - top set Year 10 class but can easily be adapted. The scheme includes a 222 slide PowerPoint presentation with detailed lessons on every section of the text, along with all resources, worksheets and homework sheets. There is also continuous assessments throughout the study - both reading, writing and speaking assessments and lessons working towards these. The study focuses on understanding and enjoying the content of the text, analysing key language using the more complex paragraphs and writing in response to key parts of the text. It also has a slide dedicated to higher level extensive vocabulary to use. It is heavily influenced with context, character studies and also analysis of key quotations. At the end of the study, I have included approaches to the exam, strategies to develop a detailed response and also included some templates for creating plans for multiple questions linked to characters and themes. I have also included a wide variety of exam questions to use with groups and reference to the mark scheme. The SOW has been designed completely from scratch with some influence taken from other resources seen and used previously

Full SOW for Miller’s The Crucible, aimed at KS3 but can also be used for early KS4. PowerPoint is about 120 slides long, and covers the play + revision. Includes: Range of tasks Comprehension questions Context notes Analysis structures and sentence starters.

Mini unit based on designing a new sweet for Halloween. Includes persuasive features, poetry and looking at imagery. about 10 lessons worth of tasks.

A fun exploration of Shakespeare’s theatrical world through a series of Drama, English and History based tasks. Work as the basis for lessons or extra curricular activities. For further guidance, resources and merchandise to allow you to set up a Young Shakespeare Society in your own school, please email youngshakespearesocietyuk@gmail.com

This is a half term SoW for year 8 to be used in a booster class - we run ours once a week for bottom sets. It focuses on a variety of skills: apostrohes, colons & semi-colons, sentence structure é varied vocabulary. I have similar schemes for the whole year for years 7, 8 é 9. NB: a specific text book is used for a resource, but it's easy to substitute.

This is a half term's SoW for Y9 English Booster - we do one lesson extra English a week for our bottom sets. It's skills based, focussing on: punctuation; pargraphing; use of literary devices; analysing written texts; writing to argue. I do have a full year's SoW for English Booster classes for years 7, 8 & 9 and will be putting them up over the coming weeks.