Useful PowerPoint to introduce the new ideas of analysing text like articles using memorable PAFT. Also looks at persuasive and informative aspects of text. Best used with extra visuals like newspapers (Tabloid/Broadsheet) and magazines (Puns/Slogans/Sensationlism)

Extracts taken from various points in the novel, with possible exam questions for each section - linked to Writer's Craft exam. Includes Part a, character questions, language (part B) and part C thematic questions.

This sheet should be used after teaching about writing to inform/ how to write a newspaper article. It assesses each of the key features that should be used in an article and allows students the chance to look and see if they have fulfilled each of the criteria. Could also be used as a peer assessment tool.

Selection of tasks that are linked to Act 1, Scene 5 of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Students re-write Macbeth&'s letter in modern English and complete other tasks, which will help them get to grips with Shakespearean language, as well as interpreting key features of the text and the events.

Interactive quiz aimed at helping both key stage 3 and 4 revise the main events, characters and themes of the play 'Macbeth'. Fun, competitive way to end a unit.

Use the board to quiz your students on any unit or topic that you have been covering. Adds competition and fun to simple revision tasks! Can be used in any subject for any topic. Works really well in getting pupils to answer questions as they try to win.

The PowerPoint can be used to introduce the activity through discussion, then it gives guidelines about what aspects of school to discuss in their guide. Students then need to work together (pairs/small groups) to create a Survival Guide for the next year 7 students. The skills used are: writing to inform and explain, and s&l: talking with others.

This task is a fun way to consolidate the students' understanding of the difference between active and passive voice. Students have to think of the dangers of being at the seaside and use them to create sentences in the passive voice, explaining what happens to Mr Hasbean. Ideal for middle to low ability classes. (Taken and adapted from the National Standards progress folders from the DFES.)

Challenge pupils with this 40x40, A3 Christmas wordsearch! Words go in any direction and some are backwards. Tried and tested with Y7 to 11. The pupils love it! Answers on reverse.

Suitable for KS2 or low ability KS3. Introductory lesson into recount poetry - looks at identifying success criteria and producing own creative piece. Differentiated throughout.