This is one of the many lessons and resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Macbeth to year 7s working at level 4/5 in English. It's based on an end result of old SATs style type question that can be APP'd. This resource is a cloze exercise for the plot.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - on persuasive writing.

This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded for Year 7 pupils with a generic theme of 'Place Poetry' running through them. All are ready to teach as standalone lessons. This particular lesson covers the poem Island Man

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - on the skills of analysing media texts

This is a pp that teaches pupils how to write about an unseen poem - really really useful and easy for pupils to follow. L/O:To learn a structure that will help me to analyse poems

A couple of lessons that uses a series of reading Image techniques in order to introduce the gothic genre prior to learning about gothic literature. The second focuses on how a writer creates atmosphere.

This is a full lesson powerpoint with all resources embedded at the end. I just used this lesson to secure my next job and it was judged as outstanding at interview. The lesson uses progress indicators, independence and cooperative learning to enable pupils to teach each other features of spoken language. Great for controlled assessment and teaching skills / knowledge of spoken langauge.

This is a Key Stage 3 lesson that utilises recipes as a poem and uses the poem 'London Recipe' as it's stimulus. Series of activites based on picking out the key images within the poem.

This is the first section of a whole scheme of work on Of Mice and Men, I created it this year, with attention to making sure that the Ofsted 2011 guidelines were being expemplified. The lessons structure reading the book from before reading to after and each of the early lessons covers different sectionhs of the book. They can all be taught togetether or you could choose to dip and pick as each can be adpated and can standalone. I can olny upload 20 bits to 1 resource feed, but the rest are on here.

This PP structures a whole day of Speaking and Listening Activities for GCSE English - interactive and fun for pupils with all of the esources uploaded with it.

This is a full powerpoint lessons, ready to teach but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context. This lesson covers the sinking of the Titanic and gets the pupils to write a report on the sinking with the info. that the lesson provides.

Identity – Who Am I – Lesson PP This is a full lesson PP, ready to use, although you will want to update it for your own use - that covers the theme of identity. This lesson covers To be able to explore the idea of identity and To be able to explore how names influence and effect our identity.

A full lesson pp that breaks down what these two terms are and how they are used in the novel.

This is the starter and the worksheets that you need for it. Really interactive - pupils have alsways loved this activity - across Key Stage 2, 3 and 4 - very simple but very effective! Great AFL tool as well.

Designed to help pupils with their analysis of this poem.

A lesson to structure proof reading This is a full lesson Pp that goes over the stages of proof reading to ensure that pupils don’t miss the little errors. Aimed at level 5 and 6.

This is a full lesson Powerpoint to aid teaching narritive writing. This lesson is ready to teach, but you will want to differentaite it for your own classes. It covers developing character.

This is one of several revision lessons that I created for the novel, in readiness for the AQA lit exam last summer. This one covers the characetr of Curley.

Believe it or not, this very simple lesson is a reminder to D/C borderliners on how they should be writing accurately. It's to hammer home the very basics that make the very big differences in their writing marks - 2 hour lesson.

This is a fully interactive lesson starter on commas - encourages whole class AFL with use of mini whiteboards