This is a highly polished and engaging scheme of 8 lessons and over 40 slides focusing on contextual factors and impact, language and structural analysis, symbolism, feminist influence and analysing characterisation. The scheme also comes complete with: Additional reading for the more able/gifted and talented Differentiated resources A reading assessment and feedback material Creative writing tasks Opportunities for individual or group presentations Extracts for close language analysis Subject appropriate spellings. I use this scheme in my own teaching and it is always a big hit with students!

This dynamic, exciting resource is fantastic for encouraging students to develop their descriptive or creative writing. It comes with an outstanding powerpoint packed full of engaging activities for individual, pair and group work. This can be one lesson or spread over two. I use this in my own classroom with fantastic results - it’s two of the best lessons I teach all year. This resource contains: full powerpoint with a range of activities (differentiated to both challenge and support the less able) worksheets

An outstanding scheme complete with 18 lessons each containing a range of exercised and activities for students. A minimum of one lesson per chapter to make teaching easy! This is a bespoke scheme created by a GCSE examiner with the focus on developing skills in an engaging and interactive manner during KS3 to support, stretch and challenge students in preparation for their GCSE years. This comprehensive resource contains: 18 lessons complete with an engaging powerpoint and additional resources for each lesson. Writing and Reading skills based lesson outcomes. Resources are comprehensive and engaging. They include lesson focuses for: Persuasive language, Writing to Inform, language and structure, analysis, analysing character and key themes. Focused lessons on teaching students how to analyse in detail. Examination/ End of unit summative assessment complete with mark scheme, model answers and preparations lessons teaching students how to analyse in detail and with terminology. Comprehensive, challenge questions for every chapter to either facilitate lessons or to be used for homework.

This is a fun, interactive lesson teaching students how to use a range of sentence structures for effect. This includes a funny and relatable connectives exercise, and a range of engaging activities to teach students to vary punctuation and different types of sentences to make them more interesting for the reader. I originally created this resource because teaching students the mechanics of language can often be quite boring for them. These lessons are centred on relatable and fun exercises to really interest the students which encourages them to remember for next time.

A academically challenge and fun, creative scheme exploring two of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s most popular works: The Yellow Wallpaper and The Giant Wistaria. The Yellow Wallpaper: This is a highly polished and engaging scheme of 8 lessons and over 40 slides focusing on contextual factors and impact, language and structural analysis, symbolism, feminist influence and analysing characterisation. The scheme also comes complete with: Additional reading for the more able/gifted and talented Differentiated resources A reading assessment and feedback material Creative writing tasks Opportunities for individual or group presentations Extracts for close language analysis The Giant Wistaria: is a creative scheme of three lessons and 15 slides designed to analyse language choices, characterisation, and how structural choices can shock a reader. This scheme focuses on contextual factors and the limitations on women, the impact of the time shifts as well as symbolism, foreshadowing and how to analyse complex structural choices. Each lesson has differentiation, challenge, and fun activities. I use all of these resources in my own teaching and they are always a big hit with students!

This unique, attractive and engaging lesson is a popular hit with both staff and students alike. This creative resource teaches students poetry conventions whilst crafting a creative response with an amusing viewpoint to famous pieces of art and poetry. This fun lesson prepares students for KS4, particularly the Section B creative elements of their GCSEs. It also encourages students to consider wider concepts whilst writing, for example social perceptions, feminist theory and societal stereotypes.

An attractive, engaging and informative lesson on Gothic Features and how they are can be identified in a range of literature. This lesson focuses on complex gothic terminology (the liminal, the doppleganger, etc) and how these features can be identified in art, ghost stories and literature such as The Woman in Black. This is a fun, relatable lesson that students are sure to remember.

A fun, practical, excellent resource created by a highly experienced classroom teacher. This is very popular with teachers and students alike. It teaches a range of rhetorical and debate strategies with very practical and fun and practical activities. This resource has over 15 lessons and resources teaching: -Persuasive Language devices (activities watching resources to see how successfully it is achieved and applying devices) Aristotle’s Ethos, Pathos and Logos. Cicero’s structure of creating an argument Applying the Heroes Journey as a persuasive device Techniques: Fallacies, reluctant conclusion, doubting yourself as a speaker, personal sacrifice etc. Using humour and irony in speeches Analysis of speeches from modern day politicians as well as inspiring and motivational speeches from motivational and civil rights speakers. Introductory ‘Finding Your Own Voice’ speaking game to help the more meek students gain confidence in front of their peers. Applying persuasive language to holiday articles (GCSE English Language skills) KS3 Speaking and Listening Teacher Assessed and Peer Assessed Mark Scheme (tapered down from KS4)

This magical, challenging scheme is both exciting and engaging for all students and have been designed to give students a strong foundation in analytical and creative skills. This resources contains: 18 lessons complete with a visually pleasing, challenging powerpoints to facilitate learning and additional resources. Focus on contextual factors and how that influenced the narrative Thematical work for example Adult and Childhood, psychoanalytical literary theory. Development work on language analysis and linguistic devices. Charactersation of the Caucus race and the long story, Alice, The White Rabbit. Assessment materials with extracts, model answers and preparation work. A complete lesson-by-lesson, weekly outlined SoL to make following the scheme made easy and for any Ofsted inspection. I teach this in my own classrooms and the work, wall displays and projects created by the end of it is really moving.

A detailed, engaging scheme of learning designed by an GCSE examiner in collaboration with the RSC and The Globe. This engaging scheme teaches students the joys of how to understand Shakespeare making it easy! This scheme contains: over 20 lessons inclusive of powerpoints and additional resources for the entirety of the play. three bespoke extract assessments complete with preparation materials, model answers and optional mark schemes. A range of activities per lesson to develop analytical and creative skills. Focused activities to help students develop skills in clearly analysing Shakespeare’s structural and language choices.

This is a fun and engaging lesson which teaches and explores the features of dystopian literature in the opening of 1984, considering the idea of totalitarianism and character’s viewpoint. There is a also a fun resource for letter writing where students will need to consider narrative viewpoint and the contextual reasons why certain information may or may not be revealed. This links to wider skills in KS3 and makes students really consider the intended and actual reader and the choices they are making as an author.

**Bespoke 11+ English Entrance Examination Paper and Mark Scheme. Only available here. ** I am the Assistant Director for English in a prestigious private school and I write our 11+ Entrance Examinations. These are bespoke resources created from over 15 years experience as a teacher and examiner. They are designed to help any student achieve by practising unseen 11+ Entrance Examination papers in preparation for their actual examination. These resources are designed for students to: practise completing a traditional paper in timed conditions. This paper included a comprehension, creative writing task, and precis. provide students with examples of model answers alongside a break down as to how certain answers achieve specific marks. differentiate the different skills that are being assessed (e.g., information retrieval, inference and deduction, skimming and scanning, substitution etc). A separate mark scheme for the comprehension, creative writing, and precis with guidance and examples of the standard of answer required for specific marks.

These are two detailed lessons on William Blake’s* London*. A very well differentiated lesson with a thorough analysis of the poem focusing on language and structural choices, tone, and theme. Fun, introductory resources are also included on the context in which Blake wrote the poem. London by William Blake is part of the Power and Conflict cluster for AQA Paper 2 Literature Specification for the Power and Conflict Anthology. This resources is well differentiated with stretch and challenge for the more able. It also acts as a very useful revision aid for students when it comes to revision. Suitable for KS4 or adapted for KS3 or KS5 as such a wide range of useful resources are already provided for all.

A fun and engaging scheme of three lessons and 15 slides designed to analyse language choices, characterisation, and how structural choices can shock a reader. This scheme focuses on contextual factors and the limitations on women, the impact of the time shifts as well as symbolism, foreshadowing and how to analyse complex structural choices. This is a fun scheme that I have used many times and have rolled out to my own department. Each lesson has differentiation, challenge and fun activities.