24 lesson SOW based on Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, aimed at Year 7 students. Independent reading as homework required, but SOW includes quizzes to check reading has taken place. Group/class reading opportunities throughout. Reading skills covered are analytical paragraphs of short extracts, and comparative writing. Some descriptive writing opportunities, and a range of transactional writing skills covered. End of unit assessment could be either analytical, comparative, or transactional writing. Final few lessons cover some speech writing.

A full half term scheme of work aimed at year 9 students, covering analysis, discussion, and writing of Gothic literature. Independent activities are differentiated by target levels, and there is stretch and challenge throughout for most able/gifted and talented students. There are points of self and peer assessment within the SOW. Teaching points of the sublime and uncanny literary concepts support most able to consider Gothic elements in 19th century texts at GCSE. SOW ends with an extended writing task, to be marked in detail by teacher, and includes potential targets to be given to students to develop writing skill and support progression.

Scheme of work aimed at mixed ability Year 9 students. 27 lessons to cover a term, including homework sheet and scaffolding worksheets to support less able. Skills Covered: Language analysis Structure analysis Evaluation Non-fiction creative writing Characterisation analysis Assessment style questions uploaded separately.

GCSE Scheme of Work of 23 lessons for A Christmas Carol, targeted at AQA specification, but adaptable to others. Each stave is covered in detail, including exam technique lessons, and links to AQA Language Paper 1. Resource also includes references to AO3 (context) with lessons on Biblical influences, and Victorian history.

Planner designed for private tutors to plan and track progress for 10 individual students. Summary page for each student, then pages to track 60 lessons, learning priorities, and targets. Also includes a way to track payment.

GCSE revision unit of work, focusing on key themes: family, authority, and love. Scenes tackled are (1.2, 1.3, 4.5); (1.1, 1.5, 3.5); (1.1, 1.5, 2.1, 3.5, 5.3). This unit would work well for the final weeks before the GCSE exam, but easily adaptable to first time teaching. Included in the unit of work are mini quizzes, example questions, extracts, and example answers based on the AQA specification, however easily adaptable to Edexcel or OCR.

A set of revision materials which cover responding to three example questions, with parts of exemplar responses for students to develop or critique. Suitable for pre-mock or Summer exam revision in class, intervention, or set as homework. Example questions are written in both AQA and Edexcel format,

Full scheme for running a peer mentoring project in your secondary school. Includes: Guidance for teachers Guidance for mentors Training PowerPoint for mentors 24 page mentoring booklet, including template for a certificate at the end of the project. Aimed at Year 7 and Year 8 students, with Year 10/11/12 as mentors. Topics in the booklet cover positive mindsets, friendships, bullying, and learning.