A full lesson that focuses on selecting appropriate details from the opening of the play. Comes with an exam style question and full example response. Key Elements: Starter task, character and image. Quotation explosion grid- who do these quotations belong to? Mr Birling’s predictions. Includes video clip revision of plot and character. Exam style question: ‘How are the Birlings…’ Quotation selections Making links tasks- finding quotations to support inference. A full example answer to exam question. Guidance/framework to craft example response to exam question. Plenary task.

A full esson that focuses on character’s guilt and addresses the welfare system. Key Elements: Core, extension, challenge tasks based on a scene from the paly. Understanding each character’s guilt - grid resource provided. William Beveridge and understanding : poverty, disease, ignorance, squander, idleness. Arthur Birling’s speech analysis with a series of questions. Exam style question " What methods does Priestley use…" Understanding the acronym CAST. Guidance and framework on answering an exam style question.

A full lesson to help secure understanding of the play, including themes and quotations - reference to social class themes. Key Elements: Silent starter: key focus Sheila Birling and quotation explosions to aid understanding. Accompanied by core, extension and challenge tasks. Exam style question: social class system. Quotation hunt activity - identifying: character, action, stage directions and themes. Focus on structural and language methods used by Priestley. Basic example response to exam style question. Help me out slide with key quotations on the social class system to aid lower level ability learner.

A comprehensive revision PowerPoint that focuses on the key elements of generational attitudes and ageism. Aids to secure the understanding of the play, includes thematic ideas and quotations. Key Elements: Ageism in the play. Exploration of writer’s themes and ideas. All write round robin with exam style questions. Old V’s young profiling with templates. Top Tips on answering questions. Quotation analysis. A framework guide on how to answer exam style question. Plenary reflection task.

A great lesson packed full of ideas and engaging tasks to aid with both descriptive and narrative writing. Addressing key learning outcomes, such as, ‘being able to apply a wide range of effective language techniques’ taking into consideration the importance of SPAG. Key Elements: Overview of Paper 1, Section A and B. Silent Starter (SPAG Focus) Image and sentence starter activities. All Read Round Robin. Examples of descriptive writing with tasks on annotations. Core - Extension - Challenge - Super Challenge tasks. Mix - Pair - Share activity to assess for learning. Self - assessment activities. A Full 13 page PowerPoint.

A fabulous lesson that successfully demonstrates and practises the art of ‘making strange’- a defamiliarisation technique that can be used when writing to describe:characters, locations or settings. Lesson includes: 11 page PowerPoint was or were starter activity explanation of the dfamiliarisation technique and how to apply it, successfully. Check point stop to address misconceptions Defamiliarisation writing tasks x2 visual clips from David Attenborough. Plenary: peer assessment. A really interesting lesson that aids students to think out of the box!

A fully resourced lesson with worksheets attached to aid with guided writing when writing to describe. Includes the following: word association dominoes starter task. reflection on key language features, used for effect. sentence structures re-cap with task. figurative language task with answer sheet. x 2 guided reading activities that focus on: core, extension and challenge skills. final task of completing a story opening. self-assessment plenary activity.

A great 10 page lesson that explores key themes and motifs in the poem. A great introduction for Year 9/10 into poetry and annotations. Lesson includes: a thorough introduction to ‘Blessing’ by Imtiaz Dharker. a 10 page PowerPoint the poem and summary tasks to explore clear annotations and questions that address key ideas in the poem. a key learning question that addresses the themes of poverty. an example answer to explore in class.

An engaging lesson that can be used to introduce key skills required for Paper 2 AQA GCSE English Language. The lesson does give lots of examples and advice and guidance on how to answer: Q1, Q2 and Q4 - focuses on the theme of homelessness. Pack includes: 11 page PowerPoint packed full of information. Q1 skim and scan skills with true and false questions. comparison tasks based on image. informative visual clip (lasts 10 mins) ‘Simon on the Streets.’ Additional questions to support. reading skills tasks based on account by ‘Sophie Haydock.’ round robin task based on source A and source B. summary question WAGOLL guide on summarising two texts with a framework to support. stand up-hand up- pair up tasks.

A great introductory lesson to poetry. A full and packed 15 page PowerPoint lesson that could actually be stretched over two sessions. The lesson explores the context of the poem and skills required to identify and make comment on language features. Can be used as a great introduction to poetry in Year 8 or 9. Includes: core, extension and challenge tasks. starter task/literacy focus dictionary definition challenge. an informative clip about the poem - linking tasks provided. the poem social/historical/contextual resource big question that focuses on the development of reading skills example framework/guide to aid with answering questions plenary task: self assessment

A lesson and resources that focus on the key elements required for exciting writing! Package includes: Settler task - Chernobyl funfair image and task prompts. Recap and reflections on language techniques, notably PEARMS. Application of PEARMS and sensory writing feature tasks using a moden funfair image. Identifying semantic fields. WAGOLL for annotation of PEARMS, other language techniques and sensory descriptions. Includes fairground word bank and success criteria. Self-assessment activity linked to AQA mark scheme.

A comprehensive overview of Paper 2: Section A - Reading. Focusing specifically on both explicit and implicit skills and ideas required for the exam. Key elements of lesson: Inferring meaning and key word tasks: infer, imply etc… Confident readers activity to demonstrate understanding of explicit and implicit meaning, using ‘Mail Model’ extract. Recap and reflection tasks to assess understanding of Section A. Resources Included: 16 page PowerPoint Images required for inference activities ‘Mail Model’ passage.

Informative lesson that focuses on the annotation of a range of quotations - underpinning the various ideas linked to language analysis and the effects on a reader. Highlights the skills required for the exam specification. Key Elements: Silent starter - read the resource provided - summarise writer’s point of view through his use of language. Grid used to capture ideas from Orwell extract ‘Road to Wigan Pier.’ Identification of imagery, adverbials and powerful adjectives - why and how are they effective? What do we think of the writer’s thoughts? Annotation of quotations with reference to techniques - THINK or FEEL - PICTURE or IMAGINE. Your turn tasks ‘analysing the use of language in a text.’ Resources Include: -PowerPoint Reading extract Language analysis grid.

An instructive PowerPoint with engaging resources that identify writers’ attitude, explaining how these attitudes are conveyed within a text. Key Elements: Emoji wheel starter task - identifying POV and supporting with statements to demonstrate understanding. Review reading - skimming and scanning task. Full annotation of review- identifying POV, language and technique. Identifying methods used to convey attitudes. Paired activity - can also be completed as a carousel exercise. Homework provided: Identifying a writer’s attitude to homework, using extract provided. Includes in depth annotation. Extension tasks: ‘Cornwall: A Love Affair That Last a Lifetime.’ Comes with full annotation of POV-Methods-Language Analysis.

A thorough lesson with resources that explores the understanding of closer reading and how to apply these skills in exam situations. Can be used to suit both lower ability and higher ability students. Activities aid to stretch the idea of implicit meaning and how to dig deep when analysing both word and image. Key Elements: Identifying key details in a text and selecting a range of relevant quotations to support findings. Recall activities from both word and image. (images supplied) Recall activities - closer reading tasks using: Fergal Keane ‘Letter to Daniel’ and Owen Jones ‘There’s More Bleak News for Young People’ 2015. Analysis of word and phrase, using ‘Letter to Daniel.’ Non Fiction ‘comment’ article or ‘opinion’ piece, using Owen Jones extract. Resources include: 15 page Powerpoint Both reading extracts Collection Grids Images for recall tasks

A informative PowerPoint with resources that underpin comparison skills required for the exam. Teaching learners how to demonstrate understanding of a text and select a range of relevant quotations to support findings. Key Elements: Summary starter task to compare and contrast images. Skills re-cap - true or false task based on a number of statements. Comparison between a 19th and a 21st century extract. Addressing point of view. Addressing status, roles and housework between the two sources. Example comparison response. Resources Included: Images for comparison. Summary grids for comparison (differentiated chart for lower ability groups) Extract A and B (19th and 21st Century Example response 10 page PowerPoint

An informative PowerPoint and resources that address subject specific terminology, accurately. Key Elements: Silent Starter Mix and Match - term to definition. Why is analysis of key word and phrase important. Annotation of two texts. Quotation explosions, identifying language and effect. Deliberate language choices task - notably adjectives and adverbials. Example of exam questions ‘How characters use language to express emotion.’ Exam question ‘identifying how language can influence a reader.’ Annotation of extract ‘Why Bother with Breakfast.’ A full PowerPoint and resources provided.

A 32 page PowerPoint guide to answering Q4 on Language Paper 2 Viewpoints and Perspectives. Furthermore, identifying subject specific learning outcomes, using exam marking criteria. Includes Key Elements and Resources: Learning steps Comparison connectives Paper 2 overview What Q4 is about Examples of the question Example answers Comparison revision Source A and Source B ‘Londoners’ and ‘Inside Supermarkets Dark Stores.’ Comparison grids - can be used for differentiation.

An informative lesson that analyses the writers’ use of emotive language. The lesson identifies modal verbs with tasks identifying the strongest to the weakest in modality. Includes example questions on effects created by modal verbs and the identification and analyses of other language devices used for effect. Exemplar responses to various exam style questions are given. Resources include: PowerPoint Extracts Example questions Example answers Modal verbs resources.

An excellent revision lesson that recaps the essential skills required to identify writers’ viewpoint and perspective. Lesson focuses on the following: writers’ ideas writers’ perspectives writers’ viewpoints writers’ experiences. Resources include: PowerPoint Text ‘What it is like to be Royal.’ - Prince William. Reflection plenary.