Writer's Corner. Magical tools for literary magic. Project based learning. Effective openings. Intriguing characters. Showing not telling. Setting the scene. Mood and atmosphere. SOAP AIMS. Description. Peer assessment. AF1, 3, 5, 6, 7. Creative narratives. Connotations. AFL. Pathetic fallacy. Mulitmodal. Art and music. Kineasthetic.

Lesson suited to KS3 on your, you're, their, there and there. Common mistakes. Literacy skills. Million pound drop and you say we pay activities on homophones.

PowerPoint lesson plans on Animal Farm chapters. Suitable for low ability KS4 and high ability KS3. Napoleon essay P.E.E scaffold. Chapter 1, one, 2, two, 3, three. Pre-reading, book covers analysis, genre, communism, equality, connotations, inferences.

Flashcards with pictures for noun, adjective, verb and adverb practice. Game.

Lesson and PowerPoint for Carol Ann Duffy's poem Medusa. Poetry analysis. Metaphors and other poetic devices. Success criteria and PEE scaffold. AF&'s included.

Teaching low ability year 9's connotations, extended metaphors and personification in the poem Advice to a Teenage Daughter.

A nwordsearch with simple and complex linguistic devices and techniques- may be adapted to suit class.

Students have to select 10 hypothetical people to survive a plane crash on a desert island. Promotes groupwork, discussion, interaction and debate.

Writing to argue preparation. GCSE. Groupwork speaking and listening, interactive lesson. Case study.

A Level Year 13 Spoken Language analysis with Lakoff and Grice's theories applied to Not in the 9 O'Clock News comedy transcript. PowerPoint presentation of whole lesson with SOLO taxonomy objectives and AfL throughout. Flouting and violating maxims application. Model answers and example WAGOLL with Success Criteria. Transcript provided with full essay answer. Explaining jokes and why they are linguistically funny- pun/ irony/ sarcasm/ juxtaposition/ tone. Drawing on your knowledge of the frameworks of language study, analyse and discuss the spoken language of this text as an example of comedy. (40 marks) Made for WJEC LG4 spec- could be adapted for new WJEC Component 1.

Romeo's unrequited love for Rosaline. Shakespeare&'s language, oxymorons, juxtapositions. PEE answer GCSE controlled assessment.

Nouns versus verbs. Adjectives versus adverbs. WJEC LG1 English Language terminology word class devices.

English Language, creative writing, overviews, zooms, model examples. Picture/ image stimuli and descriptive writing tasks. Colour synonyms. Suitable for KS3 or KS4. AQA descritpive writing. WAGOLL. Three long lessons. Overview, zoom structure for descriptions. ISPACED outstanding openers for sentence variation.

Shakespeare introduction.Key facts. Simple to follow.

WJEC LG1 Section B Sentence Structure; simple, compound and complex. Unseen text analysis. Writers attitude conveyed. Exam preparation using fun, modern article. AS Level English Language

Three images to stimulate discussion and free thinking in preparation for creative writing

Group work, discussion/ debate activity. Students select 10 individuals from a list to create a new planet, taking into consideration age, gender, race, job, skills etc.

Novel study as a springboard for learning narrative structure through investigation of plot, character development and language use. The horror/ thriller genre provides a stimulating text for exploration. There should be a balance of the tripartite strands Reading, Writing and Speaking and Listening to enable development in each area. Activities include group discussion, role play, PEE paragraph writing, character studies, language analysis, debate, predicting, diary writing and creative description.

PEE scaffold plan for the Of Mice and Men character Crooks in chapter 4. Revision tool. Assessment/ essay plan.

Reading analysis AF4 structure, onomatopoeia, enjambment. Poetry PEE. Nature, storm, rain poem.

Freeze-frame/ image stills from the Disney film version for students to cut out and put in the correct order for plot revision. They should write a caption to describe it.