An annotated copy of the poem Harmonium by Simon Armitage with some extra ideas for development. Annotated for teacher notes but easily adaptable for student use.

This resource asks students to explore Stanislavski's concepts of units and motivation. This was initially a 30 minute interview lesson but it could easily be adapted. It includes teaching and learning concepts like coaching triangles to develop a performers response immediately and encourage students to give clearer and more specific feedback. The initial task is based on one of Kagan's Co-operative Learning strategies - Jigsaw. The Jigsaw stations are slides 13-17. All slides with tasks have count down timers embedded. I'm just moving more into the world of Drama this year after 8 years English teaching; all feedback is welcomed!

This resource asks students to consider the impact of the writer's language choices. It guides them through a step by step analysis structure, asking them to identify, explore, apply and evaluate the success of the writer's choices. I used this as part of a transition scheme of work for new starters in Year 7. It could easily be adapted for higher or lower ability.

This is a complete, fully resourced 7 lesson unit of work to ease the transition from Primary Pupil to Secondary English Student. It is built around the novel Stone Cold and focuses on the theme of homelessness. Co-operative learning strategies are embedded in the scheme of work as well as WAGOLLs and other models/examples of strong analysis. This unit comes with a lesson-by-lesson PowerPoint and differentiated work pack for either lower ability or middle to high ability students. As I taught Edexcel at the time of making the scheme, it uses the PETER acronym for strong, focused analysis. Assessment is also included!

A novel way of looking at structure to elicit more detailed and thoughtful responses from students analysing a text. I'm convinced that I &'lifted&'; the Dickens extract from another contributor; it has proved very useful to me over the years. Thank you! (Apologies for forgetting your name) This also uses Kagan's co-operative learning strategies and encourages more independence from learners. If you like this resource or have a suggestion for improvement, please leave a comment :)

This resource has been developed using the Heinemann 'Make the Grade&' text book. The mix and match activity is on slide one to print and slice, the article for the main writing question is &';The show must go on'. The example responses were from the text book - I&'ll upload a copy when I get time! I hope this can be of some use to you - if it is, or you have another comment, please leave feedback. Thanks!

Initially used with higher ability KS4 classes, this resource can be adapted for lower sets. One other idea I tried was to use characters from 'Shameless' as the central image and ask the pupils to think up the written copy to accompany the image with the purpose of encouraging others to donate money to these people. Believe Campaign was 2002. It was created for old spec. but can be easily adjusted for 2010 spec.

This is a powerpoint activity for lower ability students who are learning to analyse colour in media contexts. As my class are challenging and have weak literacy skills I printed the three analysis slides out as a worksheet for the pupils to write on. My development from this lesson was to ask the pupils to bring in an advert that used colour in a way that interested them. This initial powerpoint and structured worksheet helped them to develop their own analysis of media texts. I hope it is useful to somebody else!

This is a lesson adapted from an amazing teacher I used to work with -> The first lesson (Bieber crib to supporting differentiation sheet) is almost entirely hers and I would like to say: 'Thanks!&' The following two lessons are planned for a mixed ability set with varying needs. There is a hopscotch task differentiation grid to encourage progress and models of expected answers to discuss. I hope my evolution of this resource can help somebody else. Please comment if you find it useful! THE MAP FROM MEMORY IS THE ADJECTIVES FROM SLIDE 12 AND THE IMAGES FROM SLIDE 5! apologies, I didn't make it clear in the power point. Thanks for the reviews!