Perfect lesson to revise Macbeth, while encouraging independent thinking and collaboration, with minimum teacher input. The first lesson facilitates a student led Philosophy Circle based around their understanding of the play Macbeth. The PPT provides guidance on how to set up the Philosophy Circle, as well as opportunities for differentiation. Students discuss 5 thought provoking statements about the play, encouraging in depth reference to the text, higher order thinking and a deeper understanding of the play as a whole. The follow up lesson guides students to collaborate in creating their own sample exam questions, including an essay plan and indicative content.

This series provides individual lessons, for 11-14 year old students, at approximately 45 minutes per session. The lessons aim to move beyond students' simply identifying words, phrases and clauses, but rather allowing them to discover and discuss the effects that a writer's grammatical choices have in a text. The lessons are simple and straight forward, designed to provoke thought and understanding of the English language. A lesson where students investigate how conjunctions can affect the formality and style of our writing, by through experimentation and reflection.

This series provides individual lessons, for 11-14 year old students, at approximately 45 minutes per session. The lessons aim to move beyond students' simply identifying words, phrases and clauses, but rather allowing them to discover and discuss the effects that a writer's grammatical choices have in a text. The lessons are simple and straight forward, designed to provoke thought and understanding of the English language. A literacy lesson designed for students to investigate and experiment with the different effects of abstract and concrete nouns through simple poetry. Students compare two pieces of work, and work to create their own poem using abstract nouns.

This series provides individual lessons, for 11-14 year old students, at approximately 45 minutes per session. The lessons aim to move beyond students' simply identifying words, phrases and clauses, but rather allowing them to discover and discuss the effects that a writer's grammatical choices have in a text. The lessons are simple and straight forward, designed to provoke thought and understanding of the English language. A lesson where students investigate how modal can affect the formality and style of our writing, by through experimentation and reflection of a short piece of fictional writing, where understanding of modal verbs and imperatives leads to a greater understanding and analysis of character. Suited for YR7 and 8.

A lesson where students investigate how subordinating conjunctions can affect the formality and style of our writing, by through experimentation and reflection.

This series provides individual lessons, for 11-14 year old students, at approximately 45 minutes per session. The lessons aim to move beyond students simply identifying words, phrases and clauses, but rather allows them to discover and discuss the effects that a writer's grammatical choices have in a text. The lessons are simple and straight forward, designed to provoke thought and understanding. This lessons helps students identify the difference between the active and the passive voice, as well as reflect on where each voice is appropriate in their own writing and why.

Three lessons on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, Turned. Lessons were originally used for YR9 students, in preparation for the AQA language exams, but can be used as a short unit focusing on female writers or gender, as part of a short story SOW etc, as well as being easily adaptable for lower years. Lesson 1 - Focus on reading implicit and explicit detail to interpret character; activity on creating own character as follow up (AQA AO1 and AO5) Lesson 2 - Focus on exploring how narrative structure affects our reading of a text. (AQA AO3) Lesson 3 - Evaluation of how gender is represented in 'Turned.' (AQA AO4) Link to text: http://www.public-library.uk/ebooks/101/19.pdf

A lesson which uses the AQA guidelines on AO3 context to encourage students to understand what including a discussion on context actually means. The examples demonstrate how to move away from such taboo responses as, "the audience in Shakespearean times..." etc. The PPT uses Macbeth as an example, but can be easily adapted. It includes middle and top level example answers, as well as examiner commentary on each.

Low input creative writing lessons for paired, group and individual work. To be used as ‘Free Writing’ activities with little focus on SPaG in first draft.

A straightforward but effective activity, whereby students add missing commas to a paragraph of writing. It is suitable from Yr7 to Yr11, as either a literacy lesson, or a starter/plenary activity proceeding or preceding personal writing. Teacher then reviews four different uses of the comma with the class. Students can then use the note sheet to review and revise their own personal writing to ensure that their use of the comma is accurate.

A simple lesson, which introduces students to seven different strategies to use, in order to help them remember spellings that they are struggling with. An excellent lesson for any time if the year, which ends with an activity that can be used as a interactive literacy display in your classroom.

** Two sample lessons from a complete non-fiction unit of work. These lessons are from the initial part of the unit, focusing on the analysis and comparison of two different texts, both focused on Blackpool. The download also includes the complete unit overview for the downloadable unit of work: Exploring Viewpoints and Perspectives: Britain and Beyond, which can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-non-fiction-sow-exploring-viewpoints-and-perspectives-travel-in-britain-and-beyond-11716052 Please add review if you have used the resources provided :)

A visual resource which provides a breakdown of the new AQA exams, including percentages, specific tasks, and assessment objectives.