Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 1 scene 5 (Light and dark imagery) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature

Sequence of lessons teaching the skills required for the New AQA specification - English Language Paper 1. These lessons use an engaging Life of Pi extract to teach the key skills required for Questions 1 -5. Also, drawing on David Attenborough's Planet Earth II voice-over to teach descriptive register and ambitious vocabulary. Lessons include: example paragraphs, paragraph structures, explicit links to the mark scheme, opportunities for self and peer assessment, scaffolds to help students plan their answers and a range of individual, individual, paired and group tasks. They are designed using the AQA recommended paragraph structures SQI for Questions 2 and 3. A sequence of questions: What, How and Why are established to meet the criteria set in the AQA preparing to teach resources that suggests the ability to comment, explain and analyse is internal hierarchy of progression. AO1: Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas. Select and synthesise evidence from different texts. AO2: Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views. AO3: Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed, across two or more texts. AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references.

Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 3 scene 5 (Language analysis. Context Patriarchal gender roles) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature.

Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 1 Scene 2 (Language analysis. Exam question and model paragraphs. Elizabethan gender roles) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature. Outstanding observation lesson.

A fantastic visual revision tool for the Love and Relationships poetry, uses images to recall and recap the poems, key quotations and key themes. Extension questions for each poem to create disucssion. Includes ALL 15 poems, excellent revision materials for GCSE students for AQA English Literature Paper 2 students. Versatile: I use it with LA students to recap key ideas in the poems and memorise quotations and also with HA students to analyse the poems, make comparisons and revise key quotations. Includes: Love’s Philosophy Porphyria’s Lover When We Two Parted Winter Swans Sonnet 29 Neutral Tones Letters from Yorkshire The Farmer’s Bride Walking Away Eden Rock Follower Mother any distance Before You Were Mine Singh Song Climbing My Grandfather

The context resource summarises key information about the context of each poem from the Poetry Relationships Pearson Edexcel GCSE anthology, allowing students to make links to between text and context. As a revision resource it outlines the relevant contextual information across the whole anthology.

This resource is designed as a fun and engaging project that also teaches students key writing skills. It involves tasks based around football, creating a fantasy team, the perfect player and commentating. these tasks have a literacy focus. Learning Objectives: LO: To learn more adjectives based on physical abilities. LO: To learn how to use superlatives in explanatory writing. LO: To learn how to include ambitious vocabulary in writing.

Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 1 scene 4 (Petrachan lover) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature.

A series of lessons covering all 15 of the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Poetry Anthology Relationships. The lessons are structured to prepare students to annotate all poems with meaning, language, form and structure. The lessons introduce key themes, encourage students to work out the meaning and synopsis of the poem, provide space for teacher led annotation and links the meaning to the form and structure of the poem. The context resource summarises key information about the context of the poem, allowing students to make links to between text and context. As a revision resource it outlines the relevant contextual information across the whole anthology.

Sequence of lessons teaching the skills required for the New AQA specification - English Language Paper 1. These lessons use an extract from Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong to teach the key skills required for Questions 1 -5. The BBC version of Birdsong is a useful tool to support the teaching of structure and language. (Modified Presentation) The sequence of lessons link well to the teaching of the Conflict and Power cluster of poems by exploring the theme of conflict and nature of trench warfare. Lessons include: example paragraphs, paragraph structures, explicit links to the mark scheme, opportunities for self and peer assessment, scaffolds to help students plan their answers and a range of individual, pair and group tasks. They are designed using the AQA recommended paragraph structures SQI for Questions 2 and 3. A sequence of questions: What, How and Why are established to meet the criteria set in the AQA preparing to teach resources that suggests the ability to comment, explain and analyse is internal hierarchy of progression. The question 4 lessons focus on teaching students how to develop a critical and evaluative response to a statement using a routine that can be applied to any question 4. The question 5 lessons are designed to enable students to create interesting and convincing story openings using The Sins of the Mother by Jamil Ahmad as a model text. AO1: Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas. Select and synthesise evidence from different texts. AO2: Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views. AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references.

Reading intervention aimed at improving students’ reading ages. Booklet that supports in delivery and monitoring of reading intervention. Opportunity for student leadership. LO: Helps students develop the literacy skills they need to do well at school and in their future lives. Contains: A reading challenge with different genres and suggestions for book selections. (Initiative can be linked to any current challenges or targeted genres). A section for recording new vocabulary learnt. A section for reviews with scaffolded sentence starters and structures to support students. Can be used with small groups or whole year groups to help develop your school library provision and demonstrate the wide ranging impact an effective school library can have in your school. Designed for Year 7, however suitable for KS2 and KS3 students. Print off these booklets as a reading intervention, can be used in conjunction with reading mentors / student literacy representatives / librarians / class teachers.

LO: to be able to develop a thoughtful informed personal response by considering contextual factors. Key quotations Character analysis Change in Lady Macbeth Uses video clip Key vocabulary GCSE level Written response Peer assessment Contextual links Complete lesson designed to evaluate the presentation of Lady Macbeth against the contextual expectations of Jacobean society. Aimed to stretch and challenge students to link character and context. Activities recap the characteristics Jacobean women were expected to possess, teach the key vocabulary of conform and subvert, explore the change in Lady Macbeth, use and learn key quotations, writing a personal response and peer assessment. Engaging lesson, outstanding in lesson observation.

Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 2 scene 2 (Language analysis. Context: The Copernican Theory) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature

Two thoroughly planned booklets that teach the key skills of analysing language, making comparisons and forming a critical opinion. Designed using engaging, interesting and inspirational materials based around social justice, the resources draws on the stories of Martin Luther King, Frida Kahlo, Nelson Mandela, Malala and Lebron James to engage and motivate students while teaching fundamental skills. The skills developed apply to a wide range of English qualifications, however directly compliment the AQA English Language Paper 2 mark scheme.

An engaging approach to reading and writing non-fiction. It uses an article on the video game Fortnite to enable students to recognise the features of a newspaper article, what makes them effective and write their own interesting and appropriate newspaper articles. In particular, students learn to identify the features of a newspaper article, discuss their purpose and create their own. There are easily enough resources here for 3 lessons on this topic. Uses an article on Frotnite as an engaging and interesting topic for students’ discussion. Over the course of their learning journey, students: Understand and categorise the different techniques used by newspapers; Identify the features of newspapers in a model example; Analyse the effect of techniques in newspapers upon the reader; Use techniques effectively in writing their own newspaper articles; Peer self assess each other’s newspaper article attempts. The resources include: -Clear and engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint; -A model article on Fortnite, which is an effective topic to engage students in discussion.

First 5 poems from a full context resource, which summarises key information about the context of each poem from the Poetry Relationships Pearson Edexcel GCSE anthology, allowing students to make links to between text and context. As a revision resource it outlines the relevant contextual information across the whole anthology.

Fully differentiated and resourced lesson that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Part of a ten lesson scheme of work. Act 1 Scene 1 (Language analysis. Context Elizabethan dueling) Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature.

The lesson focuses on Carol Ann Duffy’s poem Valentine and comes from a series of lessons covering all 15 of the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Poetry Anthology Relationships. The lessons are structured to prepare students to annotate all poems with meaning, language, form and structure. The lessons introduce key themes, encourage students to work out the meaning and synopsis of the poem, provide space for teacher led annotation and links the meaning to the form and structure of the poem. The context resource summarises key information about the context of the poem, allowing students to make links to between text and context. As a revision resource it outlines the relevant contextual information across the whole anthology.