I provide high quality, tried and tested materials, developed over 17 years of teaching KS3-5. There is material to support G3/4 students as well as material to push for G8 and G9s.
I provide high quality, tried and tested materials, developed over 17 years of teaching KS3-5. There is material to support G3/4 students as well as material to push for G8 and G9s.
Everything you need to teach AQA Power and Conflict Poetry at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper2 for English Literature. It includes 20 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama and exemplar essays.
Everything you need to teach Blood Brothers at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 2 for English Literature. It includes 18 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts and opportunities to exploit online research. Page numbers refer to the Metheun Drama Edition edited by Jim Mulligan.
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3 with Shakespearean language. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as the writer’s use of language and structure, an introduction to famous plays and extract analysis. Each unit of work comes with 7 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: How to embed context
Lesson 2: Attitudes in Taming of the Shrew
Lesson 3: Analysing staging on Othello
Lesson 4: Form, rhythm and rhyme in Sonnet 130
Lesson 5: Rhythm in Macbeth
Lesson 6: Forming a hypothesis in Hamlet
Lesson 7: Analysing persuasive devices in Henry V
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3 with Victorian Literature. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as writer’s use of language and structure, extract analysis and embedding context. There is a workbook for the students to use alongside the lesson PowerPoints.
Lesson 1: How to create characters with depth
Lesson 2: Narrative Voice in Sherlock Holmes
Lesson 3: Planning and writing a detective story
Lesson 4: How the writer creates mood and atmosphere in Hard Times
Lesson 5: Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times
Lesson 6: Victorian context webquest
Lesson 7: The Ghosts in Christmas Carol
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3. Each unit of work is specialised to target a specific area of the KS3 curriculum such as writing to persuade, advise and argue. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: Creating characters with depth
Lesson 2: Writing to argue
Lesson 3: Writing a film review
Lesson 4: Writing a letter of complaint
Lesson 5: How to structure a story
Lesson 6: Writing to advise
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to help students who need extra support at KS3 with their grammar. It gives an overview of the skills needed to access the curriculum. Each lesson is specialised to target a specific area such as grammar, language or context. This unit works well with small support groups and comes with an easy-to-follow workbook.
Lesson 1: Using apostrophes
Lesson 2: Being ambitious with vocabulary
Lesson 3: Describing an alien planet
Lesson 4: Using your imagination
Lesson 5: Narrative hooks
Lesson 6: Punctuation
Lesson 7: Holiday writing
This Literacy Support unit has been created to support students who need extra help at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as creating characters and structuring stories. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens
Lesson 2: Creating an original voice
Lesson 3: How writers set the scene
Lesson 4: Zooming in and out in descriptive writing
Lesson 5: Using metaphor and similes
Lesson 6: Creating original characters
This Literacy Support unit has been created to support students’ spelling and grammar at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills needed to be successful at KS3. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: Using capital letters
Lesson 2: Writing a summary
Lesson 3: Improving your vocabulary
Lesson 4: Similes and metaphors
Lesson 5: Using persuasive devices
Lesson 6: Writing to argue
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3. This unit of work is specialised to target travel articles and diaries, with both reading and writing skills, and works well with small support groups.
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support with poetry at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes needed, such as writer’s use of language and voice, poetic techniques and rhythm. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: Poetic techniques
Lesson 2: Synonyms in Autumn by John Keats
Lesson 3: Rhythm in Sonny’s Lettah by Linton Kwesi Johnson
Lesson 4: Voice in Hitcher by Simon Armitage
Lesson 5: Style in Kid by Simon Armitage
Lesson 6: Originality in Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3 with Romeo and Juliet. It gives an overview of the skills and themes needed to access Shakespeare. Each unit of work is specialised to target a specific area of the KS3 curriculum such as Shakespearean language and context. Each unit of work comes with 8 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: Accessing Shakespeare’s language
Lesson 2: Costume design
Lesson 3: Plot and key quotes
Lesson 4: Exploring parent and child relationships
Lesson 5: Writing a magazine article on the Capulet Ball
Lesson 6: Evaluating who is to blame
Lesson 7: Plot quiz
Lesson 8: Grammar
Everything you need to revise Jane Eyre at KS5. This unit includes 8 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the World Classics edition.
Lesson 1: Oppression
Lesson 2: Essay Writing
Lesson 3: Religion
Lesson 4: Integrating context
Lesson 5: Integrating critics
Lesson 6: Love
Lesson 7: Freedom
Lesson 8: Essay feedback
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as writer’s use of language and structure, how to open a story, narrative tenses and scanning for detail. It contains a workbook for students to work thought alongside the lesson PowerPoints.
Lesson 1: Unique voice in Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens
Lesson 2: Creative writing using a unique voice
Lesson 3: How to write an effective opening
Lesson 4: Verb changes in Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Lesson 5: Skimming and Scanning
Lesson 6: Show don’t tell
Lesson 7: How to create characters
Lesson 8: How to start your descriptive sentences
These feedback sheets really help students to target areas of weakness without relying on the teacher. Each sheet has been designed for the students to carry out their own corrections once you have given them a target. Each sheet includes an explanation of what the target means, how to achieve it in their own work, a sample paragraph containing a successful example and a list of dos and don’ts.
Reading Targets
A: how to deepen your explanations
B: how to select and use quotes effectively
C: how to skillfully embed historical context
D: how to comment on language techniques
E: how to keep your answer relevant
F: how to improve your knowledge of the text
G: how to write analytical paragraphs
H: how to compare two texts
I: how to write an introduction
J: how to write a conclusion
K: how to plan an essay
L: how to annotate an extract
M: how to explore different interpretations
N: how to analyse form and structure
O: how to comment on poet’s use of meter
P: how to write a conceptualised response
Writing Targets
A: using paragraphs and discourse markers
B: how to correct your punctuation
C: using figurative language
D: varying your sentence types
E: fixing grammar issues
F: appealing to your audience
G: focus on purpose
H: using the 5 senses
I: improving your vocabulary
J: correcting your tenses
K: how to plan your writing
L: how to brainstorm your ideas
M: how to structure your writing effectively
N: how to begin and end your writing
Everything you need to teach Coraline at KS3. This 16 lesson unit has been designed as a read through the text, with a focus on evaluating a statement, and includes an assessment on how Gaiman creates tension. It is fully resourced with extracts, quizzes, assessments and worksheets.
Lesson 1: Gothic Horror
Lesson 2: C1 Setting the scene
Lesson 3: C2 Foreshadowing
Lesson 4: C3 Alternative realities
Lesson 5: C4 How Gaiman creates characters
Lesson 6: C5 Evaluating Coraline
Lesson 7: C6 What is bravery?
Lesson 8:C7 Interpreting clues
Lesson 9: C8 The children in the mirror
Lesson 10: C9 How Gaiman creates mystery
Lesson 11: C10 Horror and Mystery
Lesson 12: C11 The Final Battle
Lesson 13: C12-13 Evaluating the Ending
Lesson 14: Planning the assessment
Lesson 15: Writing the assessment
Lesson 16: The Film
This unit contains everything you need to teach Greta Thunberg Speeches. It works well balanced with with Rime of the Ancient Mariner, so the students can discuss ecological arguments in their Individual Oral. The unit opens with 5 famous speeches so the students can learn and use the required terminology. It is then followed by 7 IB specific lessons, focusing on how to analyse a speech. This unit could also be used for Higher Level Students.
Lesson 1: JFK
Lesson 2: Leonardo DiCaprio’s speech at the UN
Lesson 3: Muhammad Ali
Lesson 4: Malala
Lesson 5: Emma Watson
Lesson 6: Introduction to IB speeches
Lesson 7: The World is Waking Up
Lesson 8: Act Right Now
Lesson 9: A Disarming Case
Lesson 10: Global Issues
Lesson 11: Our Lives Are In Your Hands
Lesson 12: Our House Is On Fire
If you are teaching Frankenstein, this unit contains everything you need to allow students to connect a 19th century Romantic novel with the great issues of today, such as the environment, artificial intelligence and what makes us human.
This unit has everything you need to teach Frankenstein at KS3. It contains 25 lessons that take you through the text using differentiated extracts. It is fully resourced with context readings, theme discussions, extract analysis, persuasive writing opportunities, online research on The Romantics, critical articles and opportunities to practice extract into essay writing. Please note this unit does not look at the whole text, it analyses key extracts from the novel.
Lesson 1: an introduction to plot and context
Lesson 2: Walton’s letters
Lesson 3: C1 Victor and Elizabeth
Lesson 4: C4 University Life
Lesson 5: C5 The Creature
Lesson 6: C6 Elizabeth’s letter
Lesson 7: C7 Child killers
Lesson 8: The Trial of Justine
Lesson 9: C8 The Gothic and The Romantic
Lesson 10: Romantic Research
Lesson 11: C10 The Ice Field
Lesson 12: C11 The Creature’s Tale
Lesson 13: C15 The Importance of Appearances
Lesson 14: C16 Revenge
Lesson 15: C17 The Bride of Frankenstein
Lesson 16: C19 The Orkney Islands
Lesson 17: C20 The Dangers of Science
Lesson 18: Who is the real monster?
Lesson 19: C23 Elizabeth
Lesson 20: C24 The End
Lesson 21: Extract analysis on ‘Regret’
Lesson 22: Walton’s Letters
Lesson 23: The Trial of Victor Frankenstein
Lesson 24: End of unit quiz
This unit of work is designed as a pathway through the text Wild Boy at KS3. The unit contains 21 lessons and looks at areas such as plot structure, character relationships, aspects of a detective novel, the author’s use of pathetic fallacy and more. It is fully resourced with an extract assessment, descriptive language worksheets, plot quizzes, contextual information and assessment writing frames. Page numbers refer to the Walker Books edition.
Lesson 1: The Prologue
Lesson 2: The Circus: setting the scene
Lesson 3: Fairground characters
Lesson 4: Clarissa Everett
Lesson 5: The author’s use of animal imagery
Lesson 6: Creating mystery
Lesson 7: Character foils: Clarissa and Wild Boy
Lesson 8: Escape through the sewers
Lesson 9: Designing a WANTED poster
Lesson 10: Use of pathetic fallacy
Lesson 11: Analysing the murder scene
Lesson 12: Discovering the hidden room
Lesson 13: A Victorian Workhouse
Lesson 14: The Church
Lesson 15: How the writer builds tension
Lesson 16: The Machine
Lesson 17: Circular Structure
Lesson 18: The Suspects
Lesson 19: The Finale
Lesson 20: Planning your assessment
Lesson 21: Writing your assessment
This Unit of Work has been designed as a way through the novel ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. It contains 19 lessons and is designed to exploit areas like descriptive writing, writing a summary, analyzing characters, constructing the plot, the format of a letter, how writers build tension and designing a film storyboard. It also contains two assessment opportunities on Stanley Yelnats and the significance of the title. The page numbers refer to the Bloomsbury edition.
Lesson 1: An introduction to Holes
Lesson 2: Chapters 1-3: Camp Green Lake
Lesson 3: Chapters 4-6: Impressions of Stanley Yelnats
Lesson 4: Chapters 7-9: Use of flashback in literature
Lesson 5: Creating a factfile
Lesson 6: Survival guide poster and plot quiz
Lesson 7: Chapters 10-12: Writing a letter home
Lesson 8: Chapters 13-15: The Warden
Lesson 9: Chapters 16-18: Kate Barlow’s lipstick
Lesson 10: Chapters 19-21: Building tension
Lesson 11: Chapters 22-24: Using flashbacks
Lesson 12: Chapters 25-28: Kissin’ Kate Barlow
Lesson 13: Chapters 29-30: Using pathetic fallacy
Lesson 14: Chapters 31-33: Zero’s escape
Lesson 15: Chapters 34-36: Comparing Stanley and Zero
Lesson 16: Chapters 37-39: Climbing Big Thumb
Lesson 17: Chapters 40-43: Formulating an escape plan
Lesson 18: Chapters 44- 47: Buried treasure
Lesson 19: Chapters 48-50: The End
This scheme of work is designed as a pathway through the play and an introduction to drama at KS3. It includes 16 lessons that are easy to follow and focus on aspects like staging, character development, creative writing, autism research and more. Page numbers refer to the Metheun Drama edition.
Lesson 1: Autism research
Lesson 2: Creating Chris’ voice
Lesson 3: Metaphorical and literal
Lesson 4: Siobhan as the narrator
Lesson 5: The detective genre
Lesson 6: Perceptions of Chris’ mother
Lesson 7: Perceptions of Chris’ father
Lesson 8: Stephen’s use of staging
Lesson 9: Research on why children run away from home
Lesson 10: Eidetic memories
Lesson 11: Staging Chris’ journey to London
Lesson 12: Judy and Roger
Lesson 13: Creating coping strategies
Lesson 14: The crime genre
Lesson 15: Assessment on Siobhan