A full lesson that asks students to identify the mood of sentences and then edit the words themselves to change the mood, including, starter, main task, peer assessment and plenary.

A whole lesson designed to support and model active reading skills ( for students who find it difficult to draw clues together across the text). Includes a short extract from This Tale is Forbidden by Polly Crosby as a handout (great book!) Includes starter task which is returned to in the plenary, and a KS3 friendly (GCSE style) question, asking students to draw links between clues.

Full lesson focused on improving detail in creative writing to create mystery, fear, suspense. Includes starter matching task (no printing needed), short discussion based tasks with examples, leading to a paired planning task, independent writing and plenary.

PPTs for higher and lower ability

PPTs for higher and lower ability.

PPT - complete lesson plan plus handout

Suitable for low ability students.

by Mark Haddon : SOW

Full SOW, lesson by lesson, including peer/self assessment and reading and writing assessments.

Full lesson plans, including starter, guided annotation, questions, peer assessment and plenary. Differentiated questions are provided for each poem for lower and higher ability. Each poem has a model response. Suitable for key stage 3 and low end key stage 4.

Full SOW focusing on key extracts from the novel, aimed originally at year 9.

Full lesson plans, including AOs, creative tasks, differentiated questions and homework project for the term. Suitable for KS4.

Whole poem broken down, stanza by stanza with visual aids and key parts highlighted line by line, for or with annotation. Includes key questions, model response, vocabulary banks for support and visual plenary. Suitable for low -middling ability groups.

Short SOW (8 lessons) originally aimed at year 7.

Full lessons with writing structure to compare poems and creative tasks. Suitable for KS3.

A full lesson with model responses on how Shelley creates a gothic description with chapter five. Suitable for KS3 or low ability KS4.

PPT - complete lesson plan

Circle the correct homophone then continue the story.

Creative Writing lessons planned by PPT

Suitable for higher ability students

Preparation for reading, writing and speaking and listening assessments.