Using bugs as a stimulus to create superheroes. Leads into a story writing exercise with a focus on some language skills and devices. Ideal for a KS3 group.

A lesson that questions what questions need to be asked with the AQA GCSE Unseen Poetry question. By looking at one poem this lesson gets the students to focus on what questions they would need to ask themselves in order to access the deeper meaning and message of any poem. Uses the AQA assessment objectives and marking criteria to inform tasks.

Looking at several different Macbeth adaptations and using it as a stimulus to create a Macbeth adaptation. Presentation and worksheet ready to go with examples of work. Can be used for two lessons.

Good for poetry analysis skills. Uses the IGCSE as a basis for success criteria and assessment objectives.

A creative writing lesson for KS4. I use it at the end of the module as a fun way to look at the themes of An Inspector Calls, develop creative writing skills and to write in the style of another author. A series of questions that incorporate knowledge of An Inspector Calls as well as developing creative writing skills. This can take two lessons if you go through every step in depth or you can whizz through the questions and get it done in one lesson. I like to give some of them a chance to act out a scene from their new play.

Heavily differentiated resource that looks at question 4 on the AQA Language Paper 1. Using an extract from the Man in the High Castle this lesson looks at the skills required to develop a response for question 4. Uses the AQA exam spec and marking criteria to inform questions and support.

Breaking down the skills required to answer Question 4 on the AQA Language Paper 1 and applying those skills to creative writing in a response to Question 5.

Understand why and when to be persuasive. Develop use of persuasive devices. Finish by creating a speech to persuade. Useful for GCSE Language Paper 2 Question 5. Also good as an introduction for teaching KS3 students the basics of rhetoric and how to persuade.

Looking at skills required to compare poetry for the GCSE AQA anthology question. This lesson compares ideas and quotes found in War Photographer, Remains, Poppies and Charge of the Light Brigade. Uses AQA Assessment objectives and marking criteria to inform tasks.