SOW based on AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5. Includes practise in writing a persuasive or argumentative text, such as a letter, article, speech, or essay. Focus on clearly understanding the purpose, audience, and form, and adapting tone and structure accordingly. Teaches students how to present a clear viewpoint, develop their ideas logically, and use persuasive techniques like rhetorical questions, emotive language, and direct address.

Aimed at year 11 interested in taking A Level English Language. This lesson introduces ‘The Wug Test’ and encourages lots of thinking and discussion and a fun design task at the end. Introductory/Taster session.

A series of lessons teaching theory and vocubaulary needed for AQA A Level English Language Child Language acquisition including examples, exam questions and extracts. Covers child development stages, main theories (Chomsky, Piaget, Vygotsky, Bruner, Aitchison etc), child directed speech, phonology and phonological mistakes, virtuous errors, feral children and case studied e.g. Genie, Jim etc.

A series of lessons on A Level English grammar with activities (AQA). Covers word classes and sub classes as well as sentence types and functions.

Animal Farm Lessons chapter by chapter with extra lessons on context, anthopomorphism and non fiction writing

A SOW for Y7 on AMSND - could be adapted for slightly older/younger students. Works on key extracts and focuses on language analysis and oracy/debate skills

Includes how children learn to read and write, typically progressing through stages: the pre-phonemic stage (scribbling, letter-like shapes), phonemic stage (understanding that letters represent sounds), transitional stage (starting to write words phonetically and read simple texts), and the conventional stage (fluent reading and accurate spelling). Theorists include Jeanne Chall, who outlined stages from pre-reading to advanced reading, and Goodman, who viewed reading as a “psycholinguistic guessing game” using context and prediction. Approaches to teaching include the phonics approach (focus on decoding sounds), whole language (emphasis on meaning and context), and a balanced approach combining both. Key terms include phonemic awareness, decoding, encoding, grapheme–phoneme correspondence, and the importance of exposure to print and modelling by adults.

includes infromation on key stages: pre-verbal (cooing, babbling), holophrastic (single words), two-word (basic syntax), telegraphic (key content words), and post-telegraphic (more complex grammar). Several theories including: Skinner’s behaviourist theory; Chomsky’s nativist view and Language Acquisition Device (LAD); Piaget’s link between language development to cognitive growth; and Bruner’s emphasises on the role of social interaction and caregiver support (LASS). Key terms include overextension, underextension, virtuous errors, and features of Child-Directed Speech (CDS), such as repetition and simplified language.

Based on prisons and prisoners - this resource works through each question and has tasks and examples for each.

Focusing on using ‘what, how’ why’ as a way to write a detailed paragraph. aimed at higher ability students

Aimed at Y7 class based on Myths and Legends SOW

Aimed at KS3

Observation lesson based on chapter 3 of Alice in Wonderland and on homophones

An A3 resource for revising Macbeth and A Christmas Carol based on the AQA exam AOs

Key quotations and themes for AQA English Literature texts Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls and Power and Conflict Poetry (Ozymandias, London, Extract from The Prelude, My Last Duchess, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Exposure, Storm on the Island, Bayonet Charge, Remains, Poppies, War Photographer, Tissue, The Emigree, Checking Out Me History and Kamikaze. Perfect for GCSE revision or mock exam revision.