A fun lesson with four posters for year 7 students to create, before presenting to their groups to share their favourite book, film, album and person.

To tackle the lack of enthusiasm about homework in my school I created a Nando's menu of homework tasks. This one targets key stage 4 and above and assists teaching of The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. There are 25 homeworks already planned, differentiated by 'spice'. Since using these menus, where the students pick for themselves, the amount and quality of homework has improved.

A fun, interactive and fast paced lesson complete with all resources, learning objectives and success criteria. Focus on ISAFOREST language techniques, identifying them and analyzing the effect. Use of whiteboard games, fast paced identification and then annotation of the headlines. A great lesson for year 7, 8 or 9 to assess and improve students' recognition, understanding and analysis of persuasive language.

An exciting lesson encouraging students to write a narrative as if they are travelling through space. Whole lesson planned and resourced within powerpoint. SC and LOs included.

A large, A3, colourful and instructive classroom expectations poster to decorate your classroom

A child friendly poster outlining classroom expectations

A handy pack of Eduqas style component 2 papers to help students with exam practice, exam writing style and understanding 19th and 21st Century non fiction. Inserts include non fiction texts on prison life, child labour, advertising and hospital conditions. There are 5 exam style papers in the set, with 5 different sets of 19th and 21st century articles/adverts/letters and 10 transactional writing tasks, all set out exactly like the Eduqas exam paper.

A colourful and engaging display improving vocabulary of every day words that are used too much.

A P4C lesson discussing animal rights and morality, using an article about Tilikum the whale in SeaWorld and the documentary Blackfish. A good way to have students discuss, justify and improve reasoning skills. A writer in role task is also included at the end of the lesson that can be used as an exit ticket, or homework, which encourages students to play 'devils advocate'.

A fun, engaging and thought provoking P4C lesson discussing pet ownership and homelessness, with a simple article as stimulus. A good article to analyse for non-fiction text alongside novels as well. A great way to get students talking. The entire lesson is planned with resources, Learning Objectives and Success Criteria. Good for encouraging communication, justification of ideas and listening skills. Students really enjoy P4C and it is structured in a way that means all children can achieve.

A fun and engaging P4C lesson discussing the hunting of animals, with a simple newspaper article as stimulus. A good article to analyse for non-fiction text alongside novels as well. A great way to get students talking. The entire lesson is planned with resources, Learning Objectives and Success Criteria. Good for encouraging communication, justification of ideas and listening skills. Students really enjoy P4C and it is structured in a way that means all children can achieve.

Exam style paper comparing Christina Rossetti’s ‘I loved your first: but afterwards your love’ with John Cooper Clarke’s ‘I wanna be yours’. Included in the resource is: the exam question; both poems; teacher notes including assessment objectives and mark scheme; student notes (including a key terminology tick list and a breakdown of what is needed to get maximum marks when answering the question). A great revision tool and an excellent way of helping the students get to grips with expectations in the exam.

A lesson, powerpoint and resources to help students prepare for their literature examination on A Christmas Carol. Complete with Do Now and various activities to practice the skills needed to succeed in the exam. Lesson made to help students practice embedding quotes and analysing language ready for their exam. Particularly successful with lower ability and C/D borderline students.

A full lesson including powerpoint, learning objectives, success criteria and resources. A fun and engaging way of exploring the cratchits in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The lesson starts with a 'Christmas Carol Crossword' where they need to identify and recall the family members' names, before moving on to extract analysis. The first extract is modelled already on the powerpoint, but this can easily be removed and embedded timers are on the slides already. Think, Pair, Share opportunities are in the lesson too, with students needing to match up the quote to the description of how Bob Cratchit feels (slide 6 and 7-this will need printing). I have taught this lesson to three different classes and all classes have showed rapid progress and a real engagement in the lesson.

A lesson analysing the presentation of Scrooge in the beginning of the novella. This lesson is perfect for low ability or C/D borderline students. The lesson begins with a Do Now activity looking at different images and how the represent Scrooge, before moving on to an extract analysis task that can be completed independently or as a class. Included in the lesson is a worksheet with the three extracts on, including teacher modelled annotations on the smaller extract. Students finish the lesson by writing a PEE analysis of the presentation of Scrooge, which is again modelled and differentiated for weaker students.

A fun, educational and informative card game. A selection of important quotes from or about Macbeth, the main protagonist in the play, split into two for students to match up. A really successful revision method for students to ensure success in the English Literature exam.

A fun and informative basic punctuation and word class pairs game to help students remember punctuation marks and the four main word classes.

A home made, easy to print and play card game with important quotes split in half and turned into playing cards. Students can match the quotes as a revision memory game. Really popular and helps low ability student revise.

Exam style paper comparing Sylvia Plath’s ‘Cut’ with Emily Dickenson’s ‘I felt a funeral in my brain’. Included in the resource is: the exam question; both poems; teacher notes including assessment objectives and mark scheme; student notes (including a key terminology tick list and a breakdown of what is needed to get maximum marks when answering the question). A great revision tool and an excellent way of helping the students get to grips with expectations in the exam

Exam style paper comparing Countee Cullen’s ‘Uncle Jim’ with Langston Hughes’ ‘I, too’. Included in the resource is: the exam question; both poems; teacher notes including assessment objectives and mark scheme; student notes (including a key terminology tick list and a breakdown of what is needed to get maximum marks when answering the question). A great revision tool and an excellent way of helping the students get to grips with expectations in the exam.