A lesson aimed at introducing students to writing to describe, including differentiated worksheets and (graded Outstanding when I used it for my observation). Ideal for year 7 or 8, feel free to change celebrities.

Takeaway homework menu for poetry, including a range of tasks for students to choose from.

Homework project for KS3 which allows them to select homework tasks from a range of activities, focussing on Shakespeare

A whole lesson powerpoint on Imtiaz Dharker's 'The Right Word' helping students understand the themes and language.

Lessons modelling and breaking down how to PEEL for yr7/ yr8 students, including beginning to analyse effect. Based on 'Goodnight Mr Tom'. Includes example PEEL from extract of 'The woman in black'

A takeaway homework menu for 'Goodnight Mr Tom', enabling students to pick from a range of tasks to complete around the topic as a homework project.

A resource focusing on select and retrieve skills from the poem 'Charlotte Dymond' for year 7/8

A few lessons on HG Wells' 'The Red Room' looking at language techniques, characterisation and analysis skills

A 2 lesson powerpoint based on Sonnet 130, looking at connotations and poetry.

Homework project for KS3 which allows them to select homework tasks from a range of activities, focussing on media

A two-lesson powerpoint focussing on Language paper 2 question 5, looking at how to argue effectively. Focussed around the topic of ‘travel’ comes with a full mark sample answer.

A few lessons on Macbeth for year 8, including analysis, creative writing and drama ideas.

A power point on JB Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’, including each character, themes they link to, their role and characteristics, Priestley’s message/ viewpoint and quotes to support each idea, with a name game to start and a brief slide on social/historical context at the end.

A resource to accompany the Literature AQA extracts based around Children and Education- a series of lessons and activities, with “Bonus” challenges for higher ability and “helper skelter” for lower ability pupils. Covers all of the extracts with a variety of tasks, including language analysis, evaluation, writing to persuade and argue and modelling analysis. Also includes links to poetry and non- fiction extracts that can be found online.