A question matrix for each of the 5 staves of A Christmas Carol. Could be used as part of a cold read, or potentially for revision/testing understanding.

A lesson aimed at year 7/8 on embedding quotes within their responses. Learning Objectives: To understand what an embedded quote is To use an embedded quotation To use more than one embedded quotation

A lesson aimed at a year 7 literacy group. Learning Objectives: To explain what a noun or verb phrase is. To confidently identify noun and verb phrases To be able to structure your own noun and verb phrases Differentiated activities are available within the PPT.

A low ability lesson for students reviewing the character of Candy in Chapter three. This lesson chunks the learning into manageable sections, which develop and get harder as they progress through the tasks. The basis of the lesson is a progress egg. Students work at their own pace during the lesson to work their way up the progress egg. There are also challenge tasks built in as part of the activities. You can turn this into a competition by getting students to write their name on the board once they have completed a section of the progress egg. This lesson also has a worksheets to support students.

A lesson aimed at a year 7 group. Learning Objectives: To be able to use clues from different parts of a text to help me to answer a question To ensure that I select quotes from the text To use PEE to answer a question, carefully choosing your evidence

This lesson looks at an example unseen poem. It is based on the song ‘Iron Sky’ by Paolo Nutini. I don’t tell the students that in actual fact it is a song until they have annotated. After they have annotated, we then listen to the poem to see if they can consider any other inferences. (You can play this via YouTube). It reviews marking criteria, sentence stems as well as the beginning of a modelled answer. Learning Objectives: You will learn methods for analysing key themes, feelings and techniques within an unseen poem. You should be able to offer imaginative and convincing interpretations of an unseen poem. You could even consider metaphorical meanings and alternative interpretations.

A lesson aimed at year 8 on embedding one word quotes when analysing language in a text. Learning Objectives: To pick thoughtful quotes from a text To pick a range of quotes from a text To pick one word quotes to analyse in detail