A literacy lesson for Key Stage 3 in which pupils practise their use of full stops. This will test pupils prior knowledge of full stops and how to recognise and use them within creative writing. Resource attached.

A literacy lesson for Key Stage 3 in which pupils practise their use of question marks. This will test pupils prior knowledge of question marks and how to recognise and use them within creative writing. Part of a formative assessment.

A literacy lesson for Key Stage 3 in which pupils practise their use of exclamation marks. This will test pupils prior knowledge of exclamation marks and how to recognise and use them within creative writing.

A literacy lesson for Key Stage 3 in which pupils practise condensing information. This will test pupils prior knowledge of condensing information. Resources attached.

A lesson which combines literacy and Religious Education. Reading and analysing a miracle story, considering which types of words are used and how this impacts on our reading and understanding of the story.

This is a resource for everybody reading in class (ERIC) of which gets pupils reading and discussing the issue of the upcoming General Election 2017. Included is a powerpoint used for form time and the manifestos of the Labour and Conservative parties. In the powerpoint there are debate questions and key ideas surrounding the issue. Low ability version of the article is also attached with a glossary. UKIP and Lid Dem version to follow.

On this sheet is a table with all the IPERSUADE devices, a space to consider the definition of the word and space to create an example of this device linked to the topic you could be studying within the lesson. IPERSUADE stands for; Imperatives Personal Pronouns Emotive language Rhetorical questions Statistics Use discourse markers Anecdotes Direct address Exaggertion Nice and easy for pupils to remember!

A lesson in which pupils cover what is meant by the IPERSUADE devices used for a persuasive speech. This speech links to the pupil's study of Macbeth and towards the question 'Should a Jacobean audience really be afraid of the Witches?' This gives pupils the opportunity to practice their AO5/6 skills for English language and mixing their AO1/3 skills for Literature. This was a really engaging activity and pupils loved arguing their point of view on the issue.

This A level tracker is written for the Eduqas spec but can be easily adapted. This tracks all the assessment marks given to the pupils for their practice assessments in class, mock exams or actual exam results. You can easily change the texts if they are not what you are studying. You simpy enter the results over the year and then it caluclates their total score for the course, depending on the grade boundaries for the year you can covert that score into a grade. There is a tab for year 12 and 13 so you can track progress over the course. Many thanks :)

This is written for AQA GCSE English Language (9-1) but can be easily adapted. This lesson focuses on how to persuade and uses the issue of teacher's excessive workload (trying to get sympathy here!). The pupils will define the key devices, recognise their use and finally write a response to the letter they have analysed. There are two letters attached, one is more differentiated than the other. Many thanks :)

A stand alone lesson, or intervention piece, quite simply on adjectives - how to use them and classify them. This is great for most year groups depending on ability and can be easily adapted. Many thanks :)

A lesson that was aimed towards those who are studying for the AQA English Literature exam, A Christmas Carol. In this lesson pupils create a revision map around the characters of the novella. They are required to make links between key characters, the themes and key quotes that link them together. The pupils really enjoyed this and especially thinking back to the structure and links between characters they hadn’t thought of! A really fun and creative wait to revise the novella! Thanks for looking :)

A PPT and activity that aids writing critically for GCSE English lit - AQA (but easily adaptable). In this lesson pupils will use dominoes based on CC to consider links between key ideas in the novella. They need to debate and argue how their links work. There are 4 clean dominoes for pupils to put extra ideas in too, as a challenge. Then they use this as a stimulus to write a critical commentary on the novella, using new ideas they may not have thought about before. Pupils really enjoyed this! Thanks for looking and feel free to ask any questions!