This lesson focuses on the skill of asking questions to add detail to responses about poetry. The material for the lesson is Belfast Confetti - though the focus of the lesson is less on the content of this poem and more on the skill of using Socratic questioning methods to add depth.

This lesson focuses on how the student creates ideas in their mind. The lesson takes the student through a series of activities - including a guided imagination/ questioning/ shared work - to produce a piece of creative writing.

This powerpoint supports the interview lesson plan on writing for inference/ implication. The idea of the lesson is to explore how we can use language to mislead but not lie to the reader. This lesson can also be used to explore the impact of language in the media and our role to be critical readers.

This worksheet accompanies the lesson plan on writing for implication. The idea is that students will gather assets that they can use in their advert on this worksheet. This can either before they write in pairs or when they move around the room gathering excellent examples from other people's adverts.

This lesson will be perfect for engaging students in an interview setting, as it asks them to use language creatively. Students are asked to sell a broken down car in a way that doesn't lie but encourages someone to buy it anyway. The lesson plan encourages differentiation and shows how this 30-minute lesson could be turned into a 60-minute lesson.

This worksheet supports the interview lesson plan and powerpoint for making effective vocabulary choices. This worksheet offers a basic structure for the lesson that the students can follow as you take them through the different activities.

This lesson PowerPoint supports the interview lesson plan. It is a 30-minute lesson focused on making vocabulary choices with the reader in mind. This ppt includes an image and examples to guide students through the tasks. It also provides clear task insructions.

This is a lesson plan for a thirty-minute lesson that would work in an interview lesson. The focus is on making effective vocabulary choices and encourages practical application of grammatical terms. Students are encouraged to make choices with impact on the reader in mind. The lesson plan includes suggested differentiation and possible extension to a one-hour lesson.

This is a PDF booklet covering all the poems in the Power and Conflict cluster. Each poem is dealt with in a different way, offering lots of study ideas for addressing poetry in this cluster. There are also strategies for revision comparisons between the poems. Word version bundle - editable - is availble for £7.50

This worksheet guides students through the poem remains. It helps them understand the importance of selecting the key questions to ask about a poem.

This worksheet helps students to work through the issues and ideas in the poem. It also encourages students to focus on patterns of language and then revise the comparisons with the other poems.

This worksheet helps students to understand the cultural differences and the perspectives in this poem.

This worksheet helps the student to understand the emotions in this poem. It takes them through some of the images in the poem and encourages them to come up with an interpretation.

The worksheet helps students understand the poem but also guides them to understand how a reader can interpret texts in different ways.

This worksheet encourages students to explore different interpretations of this complex poem. Some interpretations are suggested to the students and they are asked to explore these using quotations from the poem.

This worksheet encourages students to think about the ideas and the use of language in Heaney's poem. It also defines some important vocabulary and gives a sense of context.

This worksheet encourages students to consider how the ideas in the poem can change over time and how Tennyson meant the reader to think and feel may have evolved. There is a clear guide to the contents of the poem and some guidance in writing about language but the main focus is on context.