Make sure you cover all the crucial areas in your introductory lesson with each class. This PowerPoint takes you through the main areas and comes with a free advice sheet on delivering the lesson - and includes some tips to make your days a bit easier! Easily customisable.

Aimed at higher ability students (created for a top set). Creative writing activity/prompt. Model of good writing given.

Don’t worry about creating homework tasks for Animal Farm! Here is eight weeks of homework, each with four different task options. Differentiated for ability, from very low ability to challenging the most able. Points system at the bottom which can be amended/deleted

Useful for any age group studying poetry! Excellent starter activity - put numbers in the boxes. Suitable for any ability.

Starter and activity for improving writing quality in monologues. Can be used as a stand-alone lesson, but students need to know conventions of script-writing/format of monologues beforehand

Starter and activities on embedded clauses and internal punctuation. Differentiated, with a choice of activities.

Each slide is an example extract and question. Extracts are short, making them perfect for teaching demonstration of analysis and then student rehearsal. Can be used for any GCSE board. Can be adapted for ability - some questions are harder than others.

Whole lesson: starter to ascertain ‘my worst thing ever’ - discussion demonstration of poor writing and how it can be improved with punctuation writing task for students writing prompt for less able students prompt of sentence variety for more able students

Analysis rehearsal starter and tasks and prompts for a Valentine’s Day activity, or study of Sonnet 130. Gradings 9-1 included with prompt sentences. as well as learning objective.

Teaching analysis using pictures, new grading system used to help indicate the depth of responses needed for each grade

Addressing and correcting writing errors and mistakes my class made. Redrafting horror stories, but works for any piece of writing where students need to: slow down and develop exposition use speech marks correctly clarify logic use a variety of sentence types vary paragraphs Also includes a basic marking numbering system