This is a whole lesson on skimming and scanning for a mid ability ks3 group. There is a video clip that tests pupils’ skimming and scanning skills as well as multiple questions (you can pick and choose which ones you wish to do depending on ability).

This is a whole lesson on explicit and implicit skills aimed at lower ability children. The lesson is based on text Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s/Philosopher’s Stone CHAPTER ONE ‘THE BOY WHO LIVED’ and also contains a physical activity that allows pupils to infer and ‘act’ out the image.

A whole lesson contextualising the school system (secondary modern/grammar) with questions based on extracts from the play.

A comprehensive lesson that looks at the narrator’s role with questions, essay question and a sample response with key extracts from the play.

Introductory unit on Poetry. Poems used include Flanders Fields and Exposure.

Focussing on Mercutio and Tybalt fight scene with gifs, images and chunked text and targted differentiated questions.

A short scheme of work examining Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley’s poems also containing creative lessons on poetry as well.

A lesson which covers staging terms as well as poses questions on tension and superstition with a sample response.

This lesson covers the following techniques: Anaphora Pathos Holophrase Synecdoche Metonymy Semantic Field This can be used as a linguistic lesson or just a fun creative wriiting activity.

An interactive way to learn and apply inference skills based on Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder. This lessons also contains The Simpson’s appropriation of the plot to help lower abilty pupils understand the Bradybury’s plot.

Explores the staging and set as well as key terminology. Main activity asks pupils to act out a key scene.

Comprises of a couple of lessons on representations of childhood in Victorian England and 20C. Language based lesson with questions, activities based around Ragged Schools pamphlet.

Each device includes questions and activities to help pupils learn and apply the techniques. Devices covered include: Simile Metaphor Analogy Imagery Motif Hyperbole Alliteration Allegory Anecdote Onomatopoeia Assonance Juxtaposition Symbolism Pathetic Fallacy Personification Repetition

AImed at KS3. A fun activity to encourage pupils to learn and apply persuasive literary devices in the form of a pitch.

Three to four lessons on Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter. Aimed at KS3 and includes a fun trial of Mary Maloney.

The lesson covers the relationship between Mickey and Edward and the increasing hostility created by their social conditions. Includes questions and sample response.

A KS3 lesson designed to get pupils thinking about how punctuation shapes meaning. The main activity is based around Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

A free 3 slide power point focussing on the language used to describe utopias/dystopias.

A few lessons on comparative poetry skills focusing on WW1 poetry.

Free lesson on how to write a PETER or exam response.