A well-presented, fully resourced lesson. Students are encouraged to develop inference skills when looking at the description of the Spirit and then when comparing to Marley. The lesson includes both independent and group work including hand up/stand up/pair up and carousel planning. Comparison worksheet is included and can be easily differentiated. The work for the comparison is modelled to help weaker students and challenge opportunities are available throughout for the more able.

A well-presented, fully resourced lesson guiding students through writing a letter of complaint. This is aimed for a middle ability group but could be easily adapted into two lessons for other groups. The lesson has differentiated objectives, a writing framework, modelled examples and a success checklist so students can self/peer assess.

Two ready-to-go lessons on the character of Slim. Lessons include: differentiated objectives, a starter to revise other characters, a past paper question (WJEC), a step-by-step guide to producing a written response, including sentence starters and model answers. Easily adapted if needed.

This engaging, fully resourced lesson looks at the emotions created by the writer and then considers Tennyson's opinion of the soldiers. It is heavily scaffolded as it is aimed at a LA Y8 class. I have included the PPT, the literacy starter, sentence starters, a model, a separate writing framework and a success checklist for self-assessment.

This is a complete KS3 SOW, containing around twenty complete lessons, for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Each lesson contains a recall starter, main tasks and a plenary. Modelling and self and peer assessment opportunities are embedded throughout, especially for the longer writing tasks. The SOW is designed with the Eduquas specification in mind, with tasks gearing towards AO1, AO2 and AO4 style questions. However, the key skills of language analysis, comparison and transactional writing would suit other exam boards.

A full SOW for the text, suitable for KS3. Each chapter has a range of relevant and engaing activities with modelling, self assessing and peer assessing opportunities embedded throughout. Skills developed include; identifying relevant evidence from the text, analysing language, evaluating and justifying opinions and creative writing skills. For longer writing tasks, scaffolding is provided including models, sentence starters and success criteria. There are also chances to develop students’ numeracy and literacy skills.

A fully resourced lesson looking at writing an informal letter. This lesson covers the differences between formal and informal letters, planning a letter and has a detailed success criteria for peer/self assessment. It worked brilliantly with my middle ability KS4 students and also worked well with my 1-2-1 students.

A complete lesson, fully resourced on Ozymandias from the WJEC/Eduqas anthology. Delivered as an observation lesson and judged to be Outstanding. The lesson includes: A differentiated starter Contextual information - including a visual mindmapping task Opportunities to model analysis and written responses Clear success criteria linked to the mark scheme A straightforward peer/self assessment sheet