This resource was designed to support form time reading. It contains: Pre reading activity Lesson on context Comprehension questions and answers for each chapter (multiple choice) Final activity- ‘To what extent do you agree?’

Comprehensive complete scheme of work for Lord of the flies. Targeted for use with KS4 pupils, but can also be used with a top set KS3 class. Set of 32 lessons- everything you will ever need to teach Lord of the Flies!

Series of four lessons to celebrate Roald Dahl day on 13th September. Lesson 1- To use descriptive and persuasive language to create and design your own chocolate bar. Lesson 2-To develop imaginative writing skills to create a new horrid winner of a golden ticket. Lesson 3-To become a witchophile and create a poster to warn people about witches. Lesson 4- To prepare an interview for the BBC between a news reporter and a witchophile. Whole school quiz and whole school competition activities also included.

One lesson that takes pupils through creative writing- great as a revision lesson before the exam. Includes a teacher model example.

Complete Gothic writing SOW includes 26 lessons and 51 resources in total! Everything you need for teaching Gothic reading and writing skills to KS3 and KS4 pupils. The SOW includes: 1. Assessment on horror posters- focusing on language and presentational devices. 2. Features of horror writing- extracts of texts which pupils analyse and then use to create their own. 3. Horror openings- extracts of openings which pupils analyse and then use to create their own. 4. The Man with the Yellow Face- series of 4 lessons looking at: The opening and narrative hooks, sentence length to create tension, and how Horowitz uses devices to create tension. 5. The Monkey’s Paw- series of 4 lessons looking at: Tension and structure in the opening, sentence length and devices to create tension and comprehension questions. All building up to a reading assessment. 6. 2 creative writing lessons looking at using devices, narrative hooks and sentences to create tension. Applying and consolidating everything learnt so far. 7. The Tell Tale Heart- 4 lessons looking at how Poe uses language, sentence structure, senses and punctuation to create tension. Reading assessment provided with peer assessment. 8. 4 lessons on The Red Room looking at character, plot and tension. Consolidates all learning so far. A really comprehensive SOW that is all you need to teach Gothic Horror!

Full SOW for the new AQA Media GCSE ]. Broken down into two half terms of teaching: Term 1- Compare two adverts and Term 2- Create your own advert. Series of 14 lessons for Term 1 and 10 lessons for Term 2. Term 1- Compare two adverts (Apple billboard advert and Apple online advert) - leads pupils through how to analyse two adverts using correct media terminology with exemplar answers. Looks in detail at: Colour in branding, branding, logos, power of advertising, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Apple profile, synergy, and linking adverts across two platforms. Leads up to a controlled assessment analysis of 2 Apple adverts. Term 2- Creating adverts for a new app or mobile phone- Looks in detail at: billboard rules, differentiating billboards, creating and producing your billboard, camera angles and editing, sound in film, and storyboarding. Leads up to a controlled assessment of creating and evaluating a billboard and TV campaign. Each lesson comes with a PowerPoint and resources. I have also uploaded Unit 1: Media Languages (Print) and Unit 3: Practical Production and Evaluation (Moving Image) , but have kept them separate as you might want to teach something different from the list of choices.

Full SOW for the new AQA Media GCSE . Broken down into three half terms of teaching: Term 1- Planning and research (pre-production) Term 2- Post production and Term 3- Evaluation. Series of 8 lessons for Term 1 and 3 lessons for Term 2 and 2 lessons for Term 3. Term 1- Planning and research (horror film genre) Includes lessons on: History of horror, sub-genres, camera angles and movement, mise-en-scene, early horror films, media language, narrative in trailers, creating a trailer and questionnaires. Leads up to a controlled assessment research of horror film trailers. Term 2- Post production - Looks in detail at: Editing a film trailer and creating a storyboard. Leads up to controlled assessment of horror film trailer on Ipads. Term 3- Evaluation- Looks in detail at how to evaluate a final moving image product. Each lesson comes with a PowerPoint and resources. I have also uploaded Unit 1: Introduction to Media Languages and Unit 2: Cross-Media Study (Advertising and Marketing)

Full scheme of work for Much Ado about Nothing. Series of lessons, all with resources and full PowerPoint’s. Lessons include: 1. Introduction to The Globe. 2 and 3. Introduction to plot and characters. 4 and 5. Act 1 Scene 1. Character analysis on Beatrice and Benedick. PEEDL. Includes success criteria and model. 6. Act 1 Scene 1. Claudio and Hero character analysis. Comparison of their relationship to Beatrice and Benedick. PEEDL. 7. Act 1 Scene 3. Don John character analysis. 8 ands 9. Act 2 Scene 1. The masked ball. Includes extension lesson on making masks. 10. Act 2 Scene 3. Focus on Benedick and trickery and deception. 11. Act 3 Scene 1. More trickery and deception. Theme homework. 12 and 13. Act 4 Scene 1. Assessment- 2 PowerPoint’s on Claudio and Hero and Beatrice and Benedick. 14. Act 4 Scene 1. Empathetic writing task- Hero. Assessing SPAG. Builds to an assessment question on: ‘Explore how Shakespeare presents attitudes towards women in Much Ado About Nothing . Write about: what Claudio says about Hero and how Shakespeare presents attitudes towards women in the play as a whole’ Also includes homework project and lots of other resources such as a ‘Take me Out’ lesson and lesson for creating display work. Everything you will ever need to teach Much Ado.

A 64 page revision booklet designed to help students with all aspects of the new AQA GCSE Literature and Language. Contains details of the exam, writing frames, models, revision tips, mark schemes and annotated answers. Everything you need to assist your students with their new GCSE!

Complete scheme of work on war fiction. 16 complete lessons taking pupils through the following: Analysis of 1st World War posters- PEEDL reading assessment with models and success criteria. Analysis of Jessie Pope’s ‘Whose for the Game?’ poem. Comparison of Jessie Pope’s poem to Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce’ Series of lessons of Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’- empathetic writing, PEEDL analysis- includes an observation lesson, speaking and listening activity, 2 lessons on writing skills- sentences and punctuation. ‘War photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy PEEDL analysis and speaking and listening activity. Lesson on Churchill’s speeches. Lesson on Accrington Pals- assessment. Everything you need to teach WAR! Great selection of resources.

Series of 16 lessons which takes you though all of the poems in the new AQA Power and conflict cluster. 50 resources in total which are extensive and include GT stretch. Each poem is fully annotated and animated to take pupils though each poem a line at a time and there are opportunities for the pupils to explore the poems before the teacher takes them through the annotations. Each poem has a question sheet to extend pupils’ learning at home and a revision worksheet to aid with exam preparation. The SMILE technique is applied to each poem and reference is made to the new 1-9 levels. Also included are poetry terminology worksheets to remind pupils of what they need to look for in poems and also resources to aid with the unseen poetry exam.

Full moving image scheme of work. Includes 8 lessons which can easily run over 12 if you include making their own film poster and film storyboard. Includes: Lesson 1- Genre Lesson 2-Signifiers and connotations Lesson 3-Analysing film posters Lesson 4-Camera shots and storyboard Lesson 5-Mise-en-scene Lesson 6-Props, sound and lighting Lesson 7- Antagonists vs. protagonists Lesson 8-Screenwriting. Lessons 1-3 are based on a wide selection of films to introduce students to different genres. Lesson 4 onwards has a focus on Slumdog Millionaire, using camera shots from the film. I have used this SOW with both a lower year 8 class and higher year 9 class, as resources can be easily accessed and differentiated.

Two transition activity lessons for year 5 and 6 pupils coming to secondary school. Lesson 1- Roald Dahl design a chocolate bar and present back to the class. Lesson 2- Dragons den design a robot and present back to the class. Both lessons encourage fun, interactive group work and have been tried and tested to create great results!

This is a revision booklet to assist your pupils with tackling Paper 1 Literature. It includes: 12 AQA exam style extract questions- perfect for using in class or setting as homework. A reminder of the plot. One page character analysis, with quotes, for each major character. Covers all the significant events and has revision notes on each scene, with language analysis and evaluative comments to reach the higher grades. It also includes an exemplar response with commentary from AQA exam board. 24 pages in total, with 10 lessons worth of activities. I have used this workbook with my year 11 classes for the past 3 years.

Series of 26 extensive lessons covering A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Includes worksheets, hand-outs, quotes sheets, reading and writing tasks, PEEDL tasks, S&L drama activities, and a homework project that covers the whole term. Can be used for a top or bottom set (I have both and planned it as such) as there are lots of differentiated resources. Can also be used as an access into the text at GCSE as addresses the new grades system. Comes with an end of term assessment on ‘Moral significance’, but this SOW can also be used to explore Scrooge’s characterisation. Lesson 1- A very Victorian Christmas. Lesson 2- Context and Dickens’ life. Lesson 3- What Christmas means to me. Lesson 4- Analysing Scrooge Stave 1. Lesson 5- Higher level reading targets. Lesson 6- Scrooge characterisation. Lesson 7- Scrooge Stave 1. Lesson 8- Extra lesson- Scrooge’s character. Lesson 9-Writing to persuade (Stave 1) Lesson 10- Marley’s ghost techniques. Lesson 11- Marley’s ghost pathetic fallacy. Lesson 12- Marley’s ghost drama. Lesson 13- Scrooge in Stave 2. Lesson 14- Tension graph Marley’s ghost. Lesson 15- End Stave 1 recap. Lesson 16- Stave 2. Lesson 17- Stave 2 continued. Lesson 18- PEEDL Crachit Stave 3. Lesson 19-Stave 3- the ghosts. Lesson 20-Stave 3- Ignorance Vs. Want. Lesson 21- Servants. Lesson 22- Servants/ Scrooge characterisation. Lesson 23- Assessment- Moral significance in A Christmas Carol. Extra lessons x 3- Hot seating, character names and setting.

A 218 slide PowerPoint covering the Macbeth section on Literature Paper 1. New specification. This SOW includes annotated scenes, exam questions, homework opportunities, extension activities, comprehension questions, group work and differentiated activities. I have used this resource with my top and bottom set year 10 and both classes could access the work and make progress. Lesson 1- The plot. Comprehension questions to consolidate understanding. Lesson 2- The social and historical context- a carousel lesson. Lesson 3- Consolidation of the SHC. Lesson 4- Act 1 Scene 1. Annotated analysis of the witches. Lesson 5- Act 1 Scene 2. Character analysis of Macbeth- includes annotations, exam question, mark scheme and a modelled answer. Lesson 6- Act 1 Scene 3. Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches- includes annotations and exam question. Lesson 7- Act 1 Scene 4. Looking at Macbeth’s soliloquy. Lesson 8- Act 1 Scene 5. First impressions of Lady Macbeth- includes annotated scene and exam question. Homework opportunity discussing how Lady Macbeth compares to a typical 16th century woman. Lesson 9- Act 1 Scene 6. Exploring dramatic irony. Lesson 10- Act 1 Scene 7. Annotated scene and comprehension questions. Lesson 11- Act 2 Scene 1. Dagger scene- quotation match up and questions for discussion. Lesson 12- Act 2 Scene 2. The murder- annotated scene and exam question focusing on the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Includes a success criteria and differentiated quotation grids with model answers. Lesson 13- Act 3 Scene 1. Activity which includes highlighting and annotating the text. Exam question with AQA mark scheme. Lesson 14- Act 3 Scene 4. Banquo’s ghost- annotated scene and exam question with differentiated modelled answers. Also includes comprehension questions which can be set for homework. Lesson 15- Act 4 Scene 1. Activity and comprehension questions. Lesson 16- Act 5 Scene 1. Sleepwalking scene- annotated scene with exam question. Differentiated homework activities. Lesson 17- Act 5 Scene 3. Match up quotation activity. Comprehension questions. Lesson 18- Act 5 Scene 5. Cloze activity on plot. Lesson 19- Act 5 Scene 5. Annotated scene- An idiot’s tale. Comprehension questions to provoke discussion. Lesson 20- The rise and fall of Macbeth- tracking his character through the play. Lesson 21- Key themes in Macbeth.

11 lessons covering The Lady of Shallott. Lesson 1- Discussion of the Legend of King Arthur. Lesson 2- Predictions and setting. Lesson 3-Lady of Shallott character analysis. Includes pictures and word grids for lower ability pupils. Lesson 4- Sir Lancelot character analysis.Includes pictures and word grids for lower ability pupils. Lesson 5- Lady of Shallott part 4. Includes cloze activity, sequencing and comprehension questions. Lesson 6- Metaphors and imagery. Lesson 7- A closer look at techniques. Lesson 8- PEE analysis. Extra lessons: Lesson 9- Draw the setting and label with quotes. Lesson 10-Sir Lancelot autobiography. Lesson 11-Newspaper article. All builds up to an assessment on character- looking at the Lady of Shallott and Sir Lancelot. The final resource is a cloze worksheet that builds pupils up to analysing the characters on their own. I created this SOW for my bottom set year 8, but it can be differentiated up quite easily.

43 pages of spelling practice. Can be given as a homework project, or printed as individual pages for starter activities in class. Index: 1. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD TO FILL IN THE SPACE: Here, Hear, There, Their 2. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD TO FILL IN THE SPACE: Our, Are, Your, You’re 3. Confusable words There / Their 4. Confusable words Know / Now / No 5. Confusable words Where / Were / We’re 6. Confusable words Where / Wear 7. Key spellings – week one 8. Key spellings – week two 9. Key spellings – week three 10. Key spellings – week four 11. Key spellings – week five 12. Key spellings – week six 13. Key spellings – week seven 14. Of or Off? Which do you use? 15. Our or Are? Which do you use? 16. Plurals practice – Plurals ending in y 17. Word games for spelling skills (3 pages) 18. Using ‘Who’ and ‘Which’ 19. Identifying and using synonyms and antonyms 20. Proofreading 21. Common Errors 22. Crossword 23. This is the personal Word Wall of 24. Subject specific spelling collection (8 pages) 25. Correction exercise 26. Correct the mistakes in this passage 27. Allowed / aloud 28. Handy hints for improving your spelling – tricky words 29. Adding

Exciting scheme of work for KS3 classes on Moving Image. Takes pupils through media terminology in the first section and then allows them to apply what they have learnt to Casino Royale. Lesson 1- Introduction to the Media. Lesson 2- Audience. Lesson 3- Genre. Lesson 4- Signifiers and connotations. Pupils analyse a Casino Royale film poster and then create their own. Lesson 5- Connotation and denotation. Lesson 6- Stereotypes. Lesson 7- Soundtracks. Diegetic and non-diegetic sound. Lesson 8- Camera angles. Lesson 9- Writing up an essay. Lesson 10- Stereotypes in Casino Royale. Lesson 11- Camera angles in Casino Royale. Lesson 12- Writing up stereotypes and signs in Casino Royale. Lesson 13- Writing up camera angles and sound in Casino Royale. Lesson 14- Extension lesson for top-sets on Representation in the Media. Includes writing frames, model answers and builds up to an end of term assessment on Moving Image in Casino Royale.

Excellent resource which covers the all the main themes in the Power and Conflict cluster of poems. Can be used as a lesson or as revision homework. Compares poems alongside each other. Analysis includes: Power of Humans: Ozymandias and Duchess. Power of Nature: Storm on the Island and Exposure. Reality of Conflict: War Photographer and Poppies. Effects of Conflict: Bayonet Charge and Charge of the Light Brigade. Conflict of identity: Kamikaze and Émigrée. At the end of the Powerpoint, there is the start of a comparison essay for Kamikaze and Émigrée- I modelled meaning, structure and imagery/language and then included 4 comparison quotes that pupils can finish off in class. I have also included a comparative essay on COTLB and Bayonet Charge. My current year 10 and 11s found this extremely useful as a way of revising.