Great Halloween creative writing lesson that can be used with students of all secondary school age.

This is a lesson exploring leadership and loyalty in the play. The lesson includes some extracts from the play to explore with students and an essay plan for them to complete.

A Power Point lesson aimed to help students write about a pandemic. The lesson provides students with a number of stimuli and some ideas about how to structure their writing. This is perfect for exam practice, homework, attempting to help student move up a grade.

These lessons were designed to stretch and challenge my top set year 11 class. You will find about 3 lessons worth of material (perhaps more with lower ability groups). Lesson includes Power Point presentation, an A3 sheet for students to use, an exemplar for the single analysis and an exemplar for the unseen comparison. Mark schemes are used within the Power Point also. What I do: Complete lesson 1 in class - let them discuss the poem for section C and begin getting ideas down. Ask them to write a response for homework. Next lesson with them ask them to grade their work/peer mark work. Get them to compare it to my model and then make improvements. Complete the unseen comparison for homework. Next lesson discuss comparison as a class, give them my model and repeat the same process as in the previous lesson. These are not poems used in any other lessons found online so if you are looking for new material these will help. :)

Fully annotated word document for Jekyll and Hyde. I have also given synonyms for complex words.

DO NOT USE IF STUDYING LOVE AND RELATIONSHIP CLUSTER - ‘Mother, Any Distance’ is used as the comparison poem. These lessons were designed to stretch and challenge my top set year 11 class. You will find about 3 lessons worth of material (perhaps more with lower ability groups). Lesson includes Power Point presentation, an A3 sheet for students to use, an exemplar for the single analysis and an exemplar for the unseen comparison. Mark schemes are used within the Power Point also. What I do: Complete lesson 1 in class - let them discuss the poem for section C and begin getting ideas down. Ask them to write a response for homework. Next lesson with them ask them to grade their work/peer mark work. Get them to compare it to my model and then make improvements. Complete the unseen comparison for homework. Next lesson discuss comparison as a class, give them my model and repeat the same process as in the previous lesson. The first poem is not used in any other lessons found online so if you are looking for new material these will help. :)

These lessons were designed to stretch and challenge my top set year 11 class. You will find about 3 lessons worth of material (perhaps more with lower ability groups). Lesson includes Power Point presentation, an A3 sheet for students to use, an exemplar for the single analysis and an exemplar for the unseen comparison. Mark schemes are used within the Power Point also. What I do: Complete lesson 1 in class - let them discuss the poem for section C and begin getting ideas down. Ask them to write a response for homework. Next lesson with them ask them to grade their work/peer mark work. Get them to compare it to my model and then make improvements. Complete the unseen comparison for homework. Next lesson discuss comparison as a class, give them my model and repeat the same process as in the previous lesson. The first poem is not used in any other lessons found online so if you are looking for new material these will help. :)

This is a chapter by chapter exploration of Jekyll and Hyde (AQA but could be used with all exam boards). I created this during lock down for my top set year 10 students. Some had read it before and some had not so we started from the very beginning. The lessons could be adapted for classroom teaching! **However, I would also have found these very helpful when teaching it for the first time or for Staff CPD if you need to skill up staff. See below for why: ** The lessons contain: Audio clips throughout explaining tasks (can be deleted for classroom learning). ALL CHAPTERS FULLY ANNOTATED WITH VIDEO LINKS WHERE I TALK THROUGH THEM. Video links to lectures about the context with dual coded images as you listen. Dual coding sheets to accompany the plot and aid quotation analysis. Activities aimed at both the Lit and Lang spec. Quizzes and answers for students to correct. Links to a YouTube audio book. Videos where I explain the plot for each chapter using the dual coded images.

This is a set of resources using ‘Alice in Wonderland’ for both English lessons with KS3 and for a whole staff/school challenge. The lesson: An Alice in Wonderland PPT that takes you through the activities. An Alice in Wonderland whoosh designed to get the story ‘on its feet’ and have some fun with it. Two writing activities: one where students write poetry and the other a description. Printable worksheet to aid the description task. Whole school challenge: Get staff using new vocabulary and get students spotting when it is used. Sheet to be given out in tutor time to explain the rules of the whole school activity. Teacher card with the words on and their definition. Student card for students to use throughout the day and fill in. ENJOY!

List of quotations for Macbeth aimed at top sets. Can be used for: General revision Creating mind maps/concept maps Creating flashcards Aiding essay writing Aiding lessons

A Power Point lesson aimed to help students write about a pandemic. The lesson provides students with a number of stimuli and some ideas about how to structure their writing. This is perfect for exam practice, homework, attempting to help student move up a grade.

**Calling all Literacy Coordinators, KS3 Coordinators, and staff who might have a responsibility to developing cross-curricular learning. ** There are 12 PowerPoint presentations that help teach students vocabulary. Each Powerpoint will take students through a series of words used and taught within each subject at KS3 and then ask them to complete a task (sometimes linked to that subject and often not). The premise of this is to expose students to tier two vocabulary both within the context of that subject and in alternative contexts. The activities are taken from various places on the internet and all links should fully work. Subjects featured in these Powerpoints are: English (based on A Midsummer Nights Dream) Maths Science History Geography Food Technology Product Design Physical Education Philosophy and Ethics Art Music Drama DISCLOSURE: These resources have been designed for remote learning but could be used in other ways. They were also designed for our very able year 7 cohort but could be used in other years, right up to year 11 (some activities might need changing to suit a more mature audience).

A Power Point lesson aimed to help students write about a pandemic. The lesson provides students with a number of stimuli and some ideas about how to structure their writing. This is perfect for exam practice, homework, attempting to help student move up a grade.

The plot of Jekyll and Hyde in image form only. You get: An A3 sheet with all the images representing the plot. Student can annotate this with summaries, quotes, themes, vocabulary, devices, etc. An A4 sheets for each chapter that students can fill out for revision.

These lessons were designed to stretch and challenge my top set year 11 class. You will find about 3 lessons worth of material (perhaps more with lower ability groups). Lesson includes Power Point presentation, an A3 sheet for students to use, an exemplar for the single analysis and an exemplar for the unseen comparison. Mark schemes are used within the Power Point also. What I do: Complete lesson 1 in class - let them discuss the poem for section C and begin getting ideas down. Ask them to write a response for homework. Next lesson with them ask them to grade their work/peer mark work. Get them to compare it to my model and then make improvements. Complete the unseen comparison for homework. Next lesson discuss comparison as a class, give them my model and repeat the same process as in the previous lesson. These are not poems used in any other lessons found online so if you are looking for new material these will help. :)

This is a lesson I created after my students had written about ambition in Act One of Macbeth. It includes: A grade 9 real student exemplar (writing about Act One only). The AQA top band marks scheme. This can be used after teaching Act One or in the build up to the ambition assessment. You might also use it as an aid to help students begin writing - you have completed Act One and now they have to continue and write about ambition in the rest of the play. The assessment uses the AQA past paper about ambition ion Macbeth but this lesson could be used more generally by just looking at ambition in Macbeth. You could also swap out the AQA marks scheme and replace it with another exam board.