Lesson graded as outstanding during a recent interview. Outline: Students are responding to the poem 'Funeral Blues' in an imaginative way. Please see footnotes for instructions as to how to use each PPT slide.

Teaching a 20 minute descriptive writing lesson? This resource will be very useful for you. Outline: Students have the challenge of using features of descriptive writing to improve a piece of writing they have produced within the first five minutes of the lesson. There's even an opportunity for peer assessment. This resource has been set up for use with a year 7 class but can be adapted to suit alternative year groups.

A lesson exploring the presentation of Mrs Birling throughout the play which concludes with students being prepared to write a exam style response. This resource includes: 1x PPT 1x Quote bank sheet

Full lesson PPT allowing students to focus on AO1, AO2 and AO3 in relation to English Literature Paper 2 Section B: Studied Poetry from the Power and Conflict selection. By the end of the lesson students will have completed a comparative written response.

SEN/Low Ability A worksheet to accompany the study of the poem and prepare students to write an exam style response. Resource includes: - exploding quotations resource - sentence starters using PETAL paragraph structure

A low ability lesson exploring the context of the poem with close focus on language analysis. This resource includes: -1x PPT whole lesson

This resource acts as a group or independent activity to prepare students to compare two poems Give by Simon Armitage and The Hunchback in the Park by Dylan Thomas . This resource includes - ready to print and use Word documents - venn diagram - statements which students can cut and sort to match the correct sides of the venn diagram Please note: This resource is best used when the venn diagram is photocopied on A3 and the statements photocopied to A4.

This resource allows for students to familiarise themselves with the terms analepsis and prolepsis and provides stimuli for students to use these skills in their own writing. This resource includes: 1xPPT Resource links: You will need to share the movie trailers detailed below or a movie trailer of your own choice which reflects examples of analepsis and prolepsis. Ratatouille 2007 Oceans 11 2001 Extract: Please look at my free resources to find a copy of the extract worksheet required. ‘Spies’ by Michael Frayn

A selection of whole lessons, worksheets and assessment tasks to accompany your teaching of the novel Trash. This resource includes: - 4x PPT whole lessons - 2x Differentiated Assessment Tasks - 2x Activity Tasks

A creative writing lesson with a worksheet to enable students to revise for English language paper 1 question 5.

A lesson exploring the themes of the text and the questions which may arise in relation to themes in the GCSE exam. This resource includes: 1x PPT 1x Themes Sheet

These engaging and interesting lessons aim to improve students’ understanding of one of Lady Macbeth at the start of the play. In particular, they are enabled to draw links between Lady Macbeth and their knowledge of women in Shakespearean times. Resource includes: - 1x whole lesson PPT presentation exploring LM in act 1 scene 5 as a whole - 1x whole lesson PPT presentation with focus on LM soliloquy in act 1 scene 5 -2x worksheets to support the delivery of each lesson

Resource includes: - 1x whole lesson PPT presentation exploring Lady Macbeth’s methods of persuasion - 1x whole lesson PPT presentation with focus on Macbeth’s indecision in act 1 scene 7 -1x worksheets to support the delivery of LM persuasion lesson

This resource includes 1x PPT with differentiated tasks to support the learning of low ability students.

A lesson exploring the meaning of Garland’s poem ‘Kamikaze’ resulting in an extended creative writing response from students. This lesson includes: 1x PPT

In this lesson students read a selection of story openings taken from high quality, challenging literature. Students are challenged to express their own opinions, interpret information and form evaluative responses which they need to support with detailed reference and analysis of the text. This resource includes - PPT presentation Please note: the extract for ‘I’m the King of the Castle’ is taken from the AQA English Language Reading Support Booklet Paper 1 Copy and paste this link into your browser to gain access to this free booklet: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-87001-RSB.PDF

A selection of resources used to deliver structured lessons to a top set class.

These tasks can be cut into cards and completed as revision tasks for homework or independent study.

Quick and easy activity for students to complete using their skills in inference and deduction to respond to a fiction text.

Students develop their understanding of the use of courage within the novel. * Inference and deduction * Word level analysis * Point-Evidence-Analysis-Link parargrahs * Peer assessment Please rate and comment. Thank you.