The rules for crime fiction from 1930 adapted for a low ability year 7 class (levels 2-4) with worksheet. Slides to discuss who and what should be in a crime story. Slides with crime fiction book covers to show features of crime stories.

First 3 lessons to introduce students to the idea of iconoclasts with examples and worksheets.

I used this powerpoint with year 7 to teach them the techniques and get them being creative to write their own poems.

Writing about the poem and discussing ideas based on a previous reading and discussion of ARTWARS.

I used this powerpoint with year 8's to make sure they were aware of rhyming couplets, semantic field and onomatopoeia.

First week’s lessons for this unit with worksheets and example opinion pieces.

Weeks three and four lessons and resources

Further lessons to work towards controlled assessment.

Further lessons

Poems include Talking Turkeys, The Frozen Man, The Witch and Jabberwocky

Second week of lessons with resources

A quick powerpoint which explains how to answer the exam question on Paper 2 for the Power and Conflict poetry collection. Easily adaptable for Love and Relationship. Includes planning process with examples and timings of the exam.

A quick powerpoint to prepare students to compare the Power and Conflict poetry collection.

1-2 lessons based around Arthur hearing sounds from the nursery. Example PEE paragraph included with success criteria.

An assessment task for the beginning of Private Peaceful about Tommo’s father’s death. Can be used as a formative assessment to baseline students. Suitable for KS3 students. Includes two extension tasks which focus on writing skills, particularly using different sentence types.

A plan and a template for a formal letter. Used with KS3 students studying Private Peaceful to write a letter to the author about an incident in the book, however can be adapted to any novel or non fiction activity. Template includes sentence starters and the plan includes questions to get students thinking.

Year 9 lesson on Jane Eyre to prepare for the AQA English Literature GCSE. Includes an extract from chapter one and differentiated questions.

This lesson asks students to write a letter to Mrs Reed questioning her treatment of Jane.

A powerpoint with a guide to sentence types and two activities to complete: one as a class and one individual. Also includes a homework task. Can be used with KS3 and KS4.

A run through of paper 2 for revision. Includes comparison questions (to paper 1) and quick tasks to retrieve important information and compare model answers. Using this at the beginning of term to reintroduce English Language.