This is a adapted version of my Persuasive Leaflet Lesson. Instead this is all based around writing newspaper articles. It also has extra resources such as an article to annotate and another lesson where they put their new found knowledge into their own article. (Please see free resources for several newspaper templates, if needed) In this pack you will find two power point presentations that are both on revising persuasive language devices and then trying to find them in an article. (Please note this is an article I have got online and put into a newspaper article format with images)The only difference between the top two power points is one gives the examples and definitions to the class and the HA one asks the class questions to challenge them to remember. To go with this lesson there is the article and a hand-out sheet that the class can fill in when looking at the article. This gives them questions to answer about the article to help them identify the features and devices used in a persuasive article. After the class has completed this lesson, you will want to know if they now can apply their learnt skills to their own article. Please find attached the 'Practising Writing a Persuasive Newspaper Article Lesson' which will give them information (Short video online - not necessarily needed, but link available) and a success criteria on how to write an article. Please see free resources for newspaper templates. This really helped prepare my class for an assessment on newspaper articles. The engaging tops such as homework stress article and too many assessments information got them talking and interested.

This lesson prepares students to analyse quotations comparing Coraine's two mothers from the book Coraline by Neil Gaiman. The analysis is done through the analogy of a house, as you look at the outside and explain the ideas generally, and then when you look in more detail inside the house you gain a further understanding of the language used by Neil Gaiman. There is a booklet resource that fits with the lesson to help students follow this ideas, as well as top tips.

This is like a mini project as you will probably need three lessons to complete the task and students presentation. This lesson starts by asking the students questions that they have to think about when watching the news clips about refugees (internet access needed) The next slide tells the students what their task is and shows them other charities that are available to refugees at the moment. The final slide gives students a success criteria which they need to follow. This lesson aims to show students what being a refugee is a like and how we as a country could help.

This is the THE Halloween lesson of the year. In this pack you have a lesson plan with a step by step guide of what you need to do when in the lesson; a power point slide for the lesson; cut out resources and... a booklet to print which is where the students do all the work. (Booklet is file: Handout 1 and Handour 2 printed separately and then copied double sided) This lesson is planned for an hour and looks at persuasive devices with a Halloween theme. All slides are about Halloween and all the model texts focus on the upcoming festival. There is even a fun clip link to tell students the true historical story of Halloween - definitely worth a watch. I know what I'm using for my classes on the 31st October. Buy it now and use it for this last week in preparation or on the day of the BIG event!!! Happy Teaching!!!

Writing to create an image in the reader's mind is always a difficult one for the students, so here is an introductory lesson that will help them to think about why and who they are writing for. It includes a success criteria and a clip (requires internet access) to help them create an extensive piece of descriptive writing, as well as a starter that should get their creative juices flowing. Happy Writing!

The 'A Christmas Carol planning sheet' guides students through writing a PEE essay based on A Christmas Carol. It has questions and sentence starters to help students understand the sequence of their essay. This can be used for those students just starting to learn about PEE and students who need that extra bit of scaffolding when it comes to the real thing.

This Shakespeare Research Booklet is a fantastic resource for introducing students into the world of Shakespeare. Every teacher struggles with how to teach the all important context section of the Shakespeare topic, and how to make it actually interesting. Well, here is the way to do it, and all you will need for one to two lessons is either a computer room or a Shakespeare book box from your school library. This booklet will teach the context for you, as it has key questions for the students to research, fun activities to complete, key quotations to understand, and a glossary the students can fill out.

This sentence structure lesson is designed to show students how using a variety of sentences can create a certain effect on the reader. Here I have used 'The Boy' horror movie trailer to create my own descriptive piece of writing which focuses on building an image using descriptive language and a variation of sentences. Once students have read the description and discussed why this description is effective you move on to watching the trailer (access to the internet needed), and then get the students to continue the original description using the success criteria, trailer, their imagination, and the original descriptive piece of writing for aid.

This planning sheet should help your class to include all the language techniques and skills they need to create a persuasive article.

Two worksheets that make up a mini booklet for Carol Ann Duffy's Valentine.

This lesson will introduce your students to the ideas behind the Gothic genre. Using extracts from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, as well as specially written pieces of text, this lesson will aid students in identifying Gothic themes, storylines, and writing techniques.

An ideal planning sheet to give to students who need a little guidance to start with when planning and writing their assessment. It has an introduction and conclusion plan with sentence starters and questions focused on a question that compares Prospero and one other character in the play, in this case Caliban. It also has a guide for writing a PEE paragraph.

Here are a few slides that will help students to understand the structure of a PEE paragraph and give them an example. Included: Model PEE paragraph, PEE sentence starter, and PEE questions.

This lesson introduces the poem Valentine to the students. It explores the main ideas of love and has a model answer to support the students in their PEE paragraph. This pack also includes a PEE grid, sentence starters, and a lesson plan of the whole lesson.

Information sheets that link to 'An Inspector Calls'.

These two work sheets go with the information on Capitalism and Socialism I have uploaded to my free resources as the information is taken from the internet. What I got my students to do was to go through the texts and highlight the information that links to what happens in the play. I then got them to make links on the worksheets attached for each one using quotes to link the play and context more closely.

This lesson will help students to identify AFOREST Techniques using Martin Luther King's speech and prior knowledge matching cards. As you can see above this pack includes a powerpoint lesson, MLK speech for the students to use, MLK speech annotated for the teacher, and AFOREST matching cards for the starter activity. This lesson has worked really well with my Y8s and 9s. It could also be used for Y7.

This revision booklet goes through how to answer an exam question on Blood Brothers. It includes paragraph formats, A and C grade model answers, as well as context pages. It also has space for students to do their own character summaries, and select key quotations in preparation for the exam. This booklet is a great resource to give to the students when they are going on study leave as it really guides them through the stages.

Struggling to teach basic comprehension or just need a competition/cover lesson with an extract and questions? Well, here it is! In order to help my class practice picking out quotations for one mark questions and then picking out two quotes and explaining them for a two mark question, I created this worksheet. It will take the class the whole lesson to get all the answers completely right. The extract I have used is from Of Mice and Men Chapter 3 when Carlson is persuading Candy to let him shot his dog. I have also attached the answers. This is a quick, easy and effective lesson just from one print out.

PEE preparation power point for A Christmas Carol. This Power point goes very well with 'The Little Book of PEE For A Christmas Carol' as it takes students through the question they will be answering and includes PEE structures, model paragraphs, and a mark scheme (Based on the new 1-9). However it also works as a standalone resource, as it goes through how to pick out key quotations in a text, and leaves the teacher room to analyse them with the students.