Series of four lessons to celebrate Roald Dahl day on 13th September. Lesson 1- To use descriptive and persuasive language to create and design your own chocolate bar. Lesson 2-To develop imaginative writing skills to create a new horrid winner of a golden ticket. Lesson 3-To become a witchophile and create a poster to warn people about witches. Lesson 4- To prepare an interview for the BBC between a news reporter and a witchophile. Whole school quiz and whole school competition activities also included.

43 pages of spelling practice. Can be given as a homework project, or printed as individual pages for starter activities in class. Index: 1. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD TO FILL IN THE SPACE: Here, Hear, There, Their 2. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD TO FILL IN THE SPACE: Our, Are, Your, You’re 3. Confusable words There / Their 4. Confusable words Know / Now / No 5. Confusable words Where / Were / We’re 6. Confusable words Where / Wear 7. Key spellings – week one 8. Key spellings – week two 9. Key spellings – week three 10. Key spellings – week four 11. Key spellings – week five 12. Key spellings – week six 13. Key spellings – week seven 14. Of or Off? Which do you use? 15. Our or Are? Which do you use? 16. Plurals practice – Plurals ending in y 17. Word games for spelling skills (3 pages) 18. Using ‘Who’ and ‘Which’ 19. Identifying and using synonyms and antonyms 20. Proofreading 21. Common Errors 22. Crossword 23. This is the personal Word Wall of 24. Subject specific spelling collection (8 pages) 25. Correction exercise 26. Correct the mistakes in this passage 27. Allowed / aloud 28. Handy hints for improving your spelling – tricky words 29. Adding

Complete Travel Writing scheme of work. Aimed at middle ability KS3 pupils. Contains 13 lessons and a takeaway homework.

11 lessons covering The Lady of Shallott. Lesson 1- Discussion of the Legend of King Arthur. Lesson 2- Predictions and setting. Lesson 3-Lady of Shallott character analysis. Includes pictures and word grids for lower ability pupils. Lesson 4- Sir Lancelot character analysis.Includes pictures and word grids for lower ability pupils. Lesson 5- Lady of Shallott part 4. Includes cloze activity, sequencing and comprehension questions. Lesson 6- Metaphors and imagery. Lesson 7- A closer look at techniques. Lesson 8- PEE analysis. Extra lessons: Lesson 9- Draw the setting and label with quotes. Lesson 10-Sir Lancelot autobiography. Lesson 11-Newspaper article. All builds up to an assessment on character- looking at the Lady of Shallott and Sir Lancelot. The final resource is a cloze worksheet that builds pupils up to analysing the characters on their own. I created this SOW for my bottom set year 8, but it can be differentiated up quite easily.

Full scheme of work on persuasive speeches. Designed for a middle ability KS3 class, but has differentiated slides so can be used with a lower ability class. Contains lessons on: Lesson 1- Representations of America- American History. Lesson 2-Go down Moses- slavery roots. Lesson 3- Martin Luther King speech- persuasive devices. Lesson 4-Martin Luther King- PEED paragraphs. Lesson 5-Comparing Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela speeches. Lesson 6-Sojourner Truth speech- 'Aint I a woman? Persuasive devices and PEED paragraphs. Lesson 7-Obama Speech- PEED paragraphs. Lesson 8- Planning and writing your own persuasive speech. Lesson 9-11- Presenting your own persuasive speech- a Presedential campaign. Includes teacher models, writing frames and homework opportunities.

Complete scheme of work, including homework booklet, for Alice in Wonderland. KS3. Includes: Lesson 1- Introduction to Alice in Wonderland. Lesson 2-The Victorian Era. Lesson 3- Front covers. Lesson 4-Chapter 1. Lesson 5-PEED. Lesson 6- Alice’s emotions. Lesson 7-Writing to describe. Lesson 8-MAD improvements. Lesson 9- Structure. Lesson 10-Surrealism. Lesson 11- PEED. Lesson 12- Chapter 5. Lesson 13-Pepper and the pig. Lesson 14- Creative writing. Lesson 15- Create a character. Lesson 16- Punctuation. Lesson 17- Similes and metaphors.

2 excellent workbooks addressing Literacy. Can be used as homework over a term, or as class starters. Total of 88 pages! Includes activities on: Vocabulary Spellings Synonyms and antonyms Reading comprehension activities Nouns/Pronouns Verbs Commas and subordinate clauses Sentences types Apostrophes Homophones Dictionary work Past, present, future tense

Complete scheme of work for Coraline, Neil Gaiman. Contains 32 resources: Lesson 1-Predictions, blurb and chapter 1 Lesson 2-Foreboding Lesson 3-Chapters 2 and 3 Lesson 4-Chapter 4 S&L Lesson 5-Chapters 5 and 6 Lesson 6-Chapters 6 and 7 Lesson 7-Chapters 8 and 9 Lesson 8-Chapters 11,12 and 13 Lesson 9-Subversion Assessment- lower and higher ability. Includes differentiated resources for both a higher and lower ability class.

Full SOW for the new AQA Media GCSE . Broken down into two half terms of teaching: Term 1- Analysing Magazines and Term 2- Creating Magazines. Series of 15 lessons for Term 1 and 11 lessons for Term 2. Term 1- Analysing Magazines- leads pupils through how to analyse magazine front covers using correct media terminology with exemplar answers. Looks in detail at: Anchoring and Bias, camera angles, signifiers and connotations, narrative theory, connotation and denotation, typography, target audiences, media institutions and sub-generic conventions. Leads up to a controlled assessment analysis of 2 magazine covers. Term 2- Creating Magazines- Looks in detail at: magazine appeal, readers and advertisers, mode of address, media language, representation and stereotypes, visual codes and conventions, magazine composition and mastheads. Leads up to a controlled assessment of creating and evaluating a magazine cover. Each lesson comes with a PowerPoint and resources. I have also uploaded Unit 2: Cross-Media Study (Advertising and Marketing) and Unit 3: Practical Production and Evaluation (Moving Image) , but have kept them separate as you might want to teach something different from the list of choices.

Full SOW for the new AQA Media GCSE ]. Broken down into two half terms of teaching: Term 1- Compare two adverts and Term 2- Create your own advert. Series of 14 lessons for Term 1 and 10 lessons for Term 2. Term 1- Compare two adverts (Apple billboard advert and Apple online advert) - leads pupils through how to analyse two adverts using correct media terminology with exemplar answers. Looks in detail at: Colour in branding, branding, logos, power of advertising, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Apple profile, synergy, and linking adverts across two platforms. Leads up to a controlled assessment analysis of 2 Apple adverts. Term 2- Creating adverts for a new app or mobile phone- Looks in detail at: billboard rules, differentiating billboards, creating and producing your billboard, camera angles and editing, sound in film, and storyboarding. Leads up to a controlled assessment of creating and evaluating a billboard and TV campaign. Each lesson comes with a PowerPoint and resources. I have also uploaded Unit 1: Media Languages (Print) and Unit 3: Practical Production and Evaluation (Moving Image) , but have kept them separate as you might want to teach something different from the list of choices.

Full SOW for the new AQA Media GCSE . Broken down into three half terms of teaching: Term 1- Planning and research (pre-production) Term 2- Post production and Term 3- Evaluation. Series of 8 lessons for Term 1 and 3 lessons for Term 2 and 2 lessons for Term 3. Term 1- Planning and research (horror film genre) Includes lessons on: History of horror, sub-genres, camera angles and movement, mise-en-scene, early horror films, media language, narrative in trailers, creating a trailer and questionnaires. Leads up to a controlled assessment research of horror film trailers. Term 2- Post production - Looks in detail at: Editing a film trailer and creating a storyboard. Leads up to controlled assessment of horror film trailer on Ipads. Term 3- Evaluation- Looks in detail at how to evaluate a final moving image product. Each lesson comes with a PowerPoint and resources. I have also uploaded Unit 1: Introduction to Media Languages and Unit 2: Cross-Media Study (Advertising and Marketing)

Complete scheme of work on war fiction. 16 complete lessons taking pupils through the following: Analysis of 1st World War posters- PEEDL reading assessment with models and success criteria. Analysis of Jessie Pope’s ‘Whose for the Game?’ poem. Comparison of Jessie Pope’s poem to Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce’ Series of lessons of Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’- empathetic writing, PEEDL analysis- includes an observation lesson, speaking and listening activity, 2 lessons on writing skills- sentences and punctuation. ‘War photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy PEEDL analysis and speaking and listening activity. Lesson on Churchill’s speeches. Lesson on Accrington Pals- assessment. Everything you need to teach WAR! Great selection of resources.

Each PPT is a lesson itself, and follows the same format: Listen to a chapter from the book on BBC Sounds, then: Answer comprehension questions. Complete a vocabulary challenge using words from that chapter of the text. Activity designed around that chapter, for example, in The Wind in the Willows, Grahame uses lots of literary devices to describe the river, pupils have to copy his style and produce their own piece of writing. Answers and models provided. As an English teacher, I have designed these for other faculties to teach during their Literacy lessons, so they are extremely easy to follow. Texts include (in order of difficulty) The Wind in the Willows Alice in Wonderland The Railway Children Everyday use The Thirty Nine Steps The Hound of the Baskervilles War of the Worlds Frankenstein

Full moving image scheme of work. Includes 8 lessons which can easily run over 12 if you include making their own film poster and film storyboard. Includes: Lesson 1- Genre Lesson 2-Signifiers and connotations Lesson 3-Analysing film posters Lesson 4-Camera shots and storyboard Lesson 5-Mise-en-scene Lesson 6-Props, sound and lighting Lesson 7- Antagonists vs. protagonists Lesson 8-Screenwriting. Lessons 1-3 are based on a wide selection of films to introduce students to different genres. Lesson 4 onwards has a focus on Slumdog Millionaire, using camera shots from the film. I have used this SOW with both a lower year 8 class and higher year 9 class, as resources can be easily accessed and differentiated.

Complete scheme of work focusing on crime fiction. 14 lessons in total. Includes: reading and writing assessment, homework tasks, stretch and challenge and differentiation. Takes pupils through: Poetry analysis of Simon Armitage’s poem, about his person- inference and deduction skills. The Speckled Band, Sherlock Holmes- pathetic fallacy, character analysis of Helen Stoner, Dr. Roylott and Sherlock Holmes- PEEDL analysis skills (reading assessment), how to write an effective description (writing assessment), tracking tension graphs, features of Victorian writing lesson and a comparison between 2 Sherlock Holmes texts. Also includes 3 lessons on Hound of the Baskervilles and a study booklet on The Silver Blaze. Everything you need for a complete half term of crime fiction!

Extensive SOW that covers A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Includes 46 resources over 14 lessons, leading up to a character assessment. Each lesson includes a PowerPoint, differentiated worksheets and activities, model answers and fun, interactive activities. Everything you need to teach AMSND at KS3! Lesson 1: Context Lesson 2: Themes: Love Lesson 3: Characters Lesson 4: Plot Lesson 5: Exploring status Lesson 6: Act 1 Scene 1 Lesson 7: Act 1 Scene 2. The Mechanicals Lesson 8: Act 1 Scene 2. Bottom Lesson 9: Act 2 Scene 1. Puck Lesson 10: Act 2 Scene 1. Titania and Oberon Lesson 11: Act 2 Scene 1. Demetrius and Helena Lesson 12: Act 2 Scene 2. The Lovers Lesson 13: Bottom becomes an ass! Lesson 14: Interpretations of Puck Lesson 12: The Lover’s quarrel Lesson 13: Lesson 14:

Full scheme of work for Much Ado about Nothing. Series of lessons, all with resources and full PowerPoint’s. Lessons include: 1. Introduction to The Globe. 2 and 3. Introduction to plot and characters. 4 and 5. Act 1 Scene 1. Character analysis on Beatrice and Benedick. PEEDL. Includes success criteria and model. 6. Act 1 Scene 1. Claudio and Hero character analysis. Comparison of their relationship to Beatrice and Benedick. PEEDL. 7. Act 1 Scene 3. Don John character analysis. 8 ands 9. Act 2 Scene 1. The masked ball. Includes extension lesson on making masks. 10. Act 2 Scene 3. Focus on Benedick and trickery and deception. 11. Act 3 Scene 1. More trickery and deception. Theme homework. 12 and 13. Act 4 Scene 1. Assessment- 2 PowerPoint’s on Claudio and Hero and Beatrice and Benedick. 14. Act 4 Scene 1. Empathetic writing task- Hero. Assessing SPAG. Builds to an assessment question on: ‘Explore how Shakespeare presents attitudes towards women in Much Ado About Nothing . Write about: what Claudio says about Hero and how Shakespeare presents attitudes towards women in the play as a whole’ Also includes homework project and lots of other resources such as a ‘Take me Out’ lesson and lesson for creating display work. Everything you will ever need to teach Much Ado.

An extensive full scheme of work on ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell. The SOW includes a set of 15 lessons, including 2 assessments across the scheme. The scheme of work includes the following: 1-3. A marketplace lesson on the social and historical context. Homework activity. 4. A lesson on how the story is an allegory/fable. 5-6. An assessment with detailed success criteria on Old Major’s speech focusing on writers’ purpose and viewpoint. 7. A lesson on the 10 commandments with comprehension questions designed to stretch and challenge pupils. Homework activity. 8-9. A lesson focusing on chapter 3 with a power plotting grid and group activity. 10. Battle of the Cowshed lesson with a writing activity. Success criteria and writing frame for a tabloid newspaper. 11. Ofsted lesson on Squealer’s speech. Assessment with detailed model and success criteria. Homework on: Show how George Orwell used “Animal Farm” to teach readers about human beings, includes a writing frame. 12-14. Chapter 6- The Windmill. Speaking and listening activity on: How can you persuade the class to join you in your leadership of Animal Farm? Homework opportunities. 15- The execution. Students explore the principles of Animalism through writing Benjamin’s journal. 16- Comparing The Battle of the Cowshed and The Windmill using a VENN diagram, which results in pupils writing up their response using PEEDL structure. 17- Exploring the death of Boxer. Homework opportunity. 18- Pupils explore how the ideals have changed. Homework opportunity. Also includes a homework project. Each lesson has a PowerPoint and resources to support it. Extension activities are included, as well as opportunities for differentiation and homework. Everything you need to teach ‘Animal Farm’ to a higher ability class. Lots of opportunity for stretch and challenge.

Full and extensive SOW for Poetry from other cultures. Includes introduction to each poem, annotated poems, analysis, comprehension questions, homework activities and diamond ranking activities. Can be taught across KS3 as builds up to an assessment on Island Man or Nothing’s changed, or can be used as unseen poetry practice in KS4. There is an alternative assessment comparing 2 poems which can be used for very high ability pupils. The full SOW is aimed at middle ability pupils, but I have taught to both lower and higher and there are resources included for both. Lessons include: Lesson 1,2,3-Introduction to culture- What is culture? Analysis of Melting Pot by Benjamin Zephaniah. Lesson 4-Poetic techniques. Lesson 5-Island Man- introduction. Lesson 6- Island Man- analysis. Lesson 7- Island Man- diamond ranking- identity. Lesson 8- Island Man- diamond ranking- protest. Includes comprehension worksheet for homework. Lesson 9- Limbo introduction, analysis. Lesson 10-Limbo comprehension questions. Lesson 11-Nothing’s changed annotations, analysis and PEEDL. Lesson 12-Presents from my Aunt in Pakistan- introduction, annotation and analysis. Lesson 13-Presents from my Aunt in Pakistan- outstanding observation lesson. Lesson 14-Scavengers. Intro and analysis. Lesson 15-Search for my tongue. Intro and analysis. Lesson 16, 17, 18- Lessons on Vultures- intro, analysis and PEEDL. Lesson 19-Night of the scorpion. Introduction. Lesson 20, 21- Mind-mapping Night of the scorpion. Lesson 22- Planning an essay. Lesson 23-25- Comparative poetry essay. Lesson 26- Final comparative essay. Everything you need to teach Poetry from Other Cultures!

Full Scheme of work for Unseen poetry- targeted towards the new AQA specification. Includes lessons on: Introduction to poetic terms with snowball starter. The moment annotation and analysis 3 What lips annotation and analysis 4 Ninetieth birthday compared to My Grandmother annotation and analysis Home compared to *Emigree Nettles compared to Poison Tree annotation and analysis 7 Still I Rise compared to The Rose that Grew from Concrete* 7 lessons which can be taught over 11/12 lessons. Each lesson has the poem with questions to encourage analysis and annotations. Model answers using the SMILE technique and opportunities for peer and self assessment are included. Resources allow students to achieve higher grade 8/9, and differentiated writing frames allow lower ability pupils to access the poems effectively.