Full SoW, PowerPoints and resources for a transition from KS3 to GCSE. Range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts covered in preparation for creative writing. Written as 10 lessons, but may take longer as there is a lot of content to get through. Students work is assessed at three points throughout the unit: 1 - peer assessment; students set own targets based on feedback 2 - formative assessment of mini task; teacher sets targets 3- final summative assessment. L1: Starting point creative writing task; peer assessment and target-setting. L2 &3: Touching the Void - identifying descriptive techniques in action and building tension. Thinking about tone; revision of paragraphing; writing task and self-assessment. L4: Frankenstein - Intro to Mary Shelley, Romanticism, 19th century non-fiction; close reading of extract from the novel; building vocabulary. L5 & 6: Mini-milestone assessment - writing task; intro to Sherlock Holmes; feedback from task and reflection/improvement time. L7 & 8: ‘The Final Problem’ - characterisation, Conan Doyle’s style, dialogue. L9: options to explore in depth in light of mini-milestone assessment and class interest. L10: Final assessment - final written task, student voice survey. Final grade handed back at earliest convenience.

Written to support lower ability students entered for both Entry Level (AQA Step Up to English) and GCSE English Language. Range of activities to cover ELC. There are also tasks to practise English Lang Paper 1 Section A skills.

A sequence of 13 one hour lessons with starting point, mini-milestone and final assessment points to enable students development of skills necessary to succeed in GCSE English Language. Fully resourced with handouts, powerpoints and links to online content. L1 &2 - Intro to SoW, starting point assessment (analysing language) looking at Shakespeare’s weird sisters. L3 - writing a magic spell (creative writing) L4 - The Potions Master (Harry Potter) (Language Paper 1; Q1 and Q2) L5 & 6 - The White Witch (using moving image and text to explore structure) L 7 - The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Language Paper 1; Q4) L8 - Mini-milestone assessment (English Language Paper 2; Q1 and Q3 - reading for meaning and analysing language) L9 - Ghostbusters - reading, summarising and comparing noon-fiction texts; making inferences L 10 - Do You Believe - identifying perspectives and analysing how ideas are presented (feedback from mini-milestone to inform writing). L11 - The Alchemist (persuasive writing) L12 & 13 - Final assessment (Paper 1, Q1-4; Paper 2, Q5)

A complete unit of work that prepares students for GCSE English Language Papers 1 & 2 through a series of lessons exploring the Science Fiction genre. L1: Intro to Sci-Fi and evaluation skills L2: Frankenstein - Reading for meaning; analysing language L3: Robots - investigating different ideas and perspectives L4: Aliens - analysing extract from The War of the Worlds ; descriptive writing L5: Cloning - writing to persuade L6, 7 & 8: Walk through Paper 1: Consider Phlebas (higher ability); The Time Machine (middle ability) L9: Guided Reflection & Improvement Time L10 & 11: Paper 2

71 PowerPoint slides and accompanying resources to guide your students through Mary Shelley’s most famous creation. I have provided some crossover with GCSE English Language so that students can brush up on some Paper 1 skills at the same time as they study towards their Lit exam.

114 PowerPoint slides with accompanying resources that work through the novel chronologically. There are links to the BBC Schools Radio production of A Christmas Carol which is an abridged version of the text broken down into episodes of approximately 15 minutes each. I’ve created some questions to go alongside extracts of the novel so that pupils can develop the skills necessary for GCSE Language Paper 1 alongside their Literature study.

A short PowerPoint to guide students in mind-mapping their reading experiences so far. Good ice-breaker with new classes and makes a nice display to promote Reading for Pleasure.

A PowerPoint and supporting resources to use over a short run of lessons aimed at improving writing. The workshop is quite generic and would slot into any unit of work, but there is the option to develop the writing into a piece specifically focused on rivers. These river slides could be easily adapted to suit your chosen theme.