Retrieval and recall activity grid for practical idea to close the gaps. (9 instant ideas for recall and retrieval and links to the slides. Can copy and paste the slides to the start of your lessons and fill in the gaps. Good for use with KOs (knowledge organisers).

Couldn’t find anything like this online so made my own! Some realistic tips for highly motivated students to independenly revise english literature at GCSE.

Black narratives: exploring THUG (including black narrative multiple extract booklet resource consistenting of extracts from: Ghost Boys, Emmett Till article, THUG - The Hate U Give, Noughts and Crosses). Black narrative lessons, BLM.

Speaking and Listening Feedback Sheet Informal Language Oracy

Exploring Language and Structure through Bring up the Bodies GCSE

Engaging glossary task for the ambitious vocabulary in the short dystopian story ‘The Lottery’. Intro lesson, introducing utopia and dystopia and deep thinking about the notion of a lottery. Complete with full short story attached.

Show Not Tell Descriptive Writing Task or Booklet or Intervention. Activity and task to encourage SHOW not TELL. Identifying verbs and adjectives. Creating a glossary/vocab word bank. Two model answers of show not tell and 3 engaging images for all abilities. Initially aimed at y8 intervention (KS3 LITERACY).

Pre-assessment prep, assessment and mark scheme and post-assessment feedback ‘make a difference’ time. 3-5 hours worth. Using extracts from Noughts and Crosses. Heavy focus on WHAT/HOW/WHY approach to analysing language with scaffolding, model answers, checklists, self-assess, peer-assess.

Reading chapter 1 of Noughts and Crosses: structure, dual narrative, knowledge organiser included.

Thirteen by Tom Hoyle - Mega introduction lesson!

Private Peaceful End of Chapter 5 questions and tasks

Scannell - Nettles: Poetry response model answers.

Inspirational videos for Year 11 assemblies

Exploring racism in the media. Chapter 16/17 of Noughts and Crosses.

2-4 hours of lessons on effective hooks using a dystopic extract from The Hunger Games. Aiming to write a baseline description. Mini quizzes, retrieval and recall, explicit definitions, engaging youtube task, digging in deeper, method spotting and analysing effective hooks and openers. Improving crafting opening of sentences with ISPACE.

Effects of language, methods, techniques - reader’s response - AO2 AQA.

Havisham Poem Carol Ann Duffy Language analysis lesson

Black narratives: exploring Ghost Boys (including black narrative multiple extract booklet resource consistenting of extracts from: Ghost Boys, Emmett Till article, THUG - The Hate U Give, Noughts and Crosses). Black narrative lessons, BLM.

BUNDLE Research CPD Notes on Effective Learning Environments Secondary PGCE ECT Teaching and Learning

How to use a knowledge organiser BUNDLE for parents, students and teachers