A fully-resourced lesson building towards students completing a piece of descriptive writing on a Victorian setting. A task designed to develop understanding of A03 and to demonstrate clear links with ‘A Christmas Carol’.

A post-assessment lesson focusing on whole-class targets to build better descriptions. A focus on advanced structural and language features.

A LA, heavily-scaffolded lesson exploring the Gothic genre. Fully-resourced.

An easily adaptable resource designed for a HA Year 7 group, could be used for most of KS3 with slight tweaking. Print and cut the resources, stick them around the room or on different tables, giving students time to visit and make comments on each station. Differentiated success criteria. Proved to be very engaging and effective.

A lesson used to introduce the Gothic to a HA KS3 group. However, the document of character diamonds is the perfect diamond 9 for older groups as it references popular culture characters. Laminate the print out and cut them out, ask the students to order characters and think about what makes them popular.

A detailed lesson completing an academic read of an extract from ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’. This can be part of a study of ‘The Gothic’ genre and/or the 19th century.

A sequence of lessons exploring Language Paper 1, Section A through an extract from ‘IT’ by Stephen King.

A reading and writing lesson/mini-sequence based on the events of this chapter of ‘The Giver’. All resources formatted on the final slide.

A presentation exploring developing reading fluency across an educational setting.

For staff and students to develop reading fluency.

A poster to create a standardised approach to Language Paper 1, Question 5, but to be embedded further down in Key Stage Three as well.

A roll your own story template to be used for an end of term Christmas writing lesson.

A formatted document with suggested cover tasks for ‘An Inspector Calls’. All use the Oak National lessons.

Weekly intervention booklet exploring literary characters through academic reading steps.

A lesson to develop the ability to prepare a text and answer questions one and two for AQA Language Paper 1 through exploration of ‘A Christmas Carol’ and the arrival of Jacob Marley.

A six-week reading booklet with space for teacher differentiation.

A collection of assessment resources to assess students on their ability to make inferences on a character in Fantasy fiction.