5 whole-class feedback sheets easily adapted for different topics and classes.

A reading journal for secondary school students, including space for teacher comments, target setting, and information related to Accelerated Reader.

A single lesson showing the difference between tone and mood, using Wuthering Heights as a case study.

5 different whole-class feedback sheets.

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

This is a fun set of lessons I designed recently to aid those on their Language Paper 2 Examination and general transactional writing. The lessons are designed to be engaging; the students will be scaffolded to writing a persuasive writing piece. It can easily be differentiated (I personally use Bronze, Silver and Gold for my class). Resources: I have included the Martin Luther King extract from ‘I Have A Dream’. This can easily be adapted to other speeches. Barack Obama, JFK and monologues from US Talk Shows are current but must be sensitively used. As for the video game research, I would recommend using five or six articles around the room. Use the most up to date articles you can and therefore print off according to the date of use. Interactive Elements: Check and adapt depending on software and model. Very easily adapted.

A unit of work exploring ‘Ghost Stories’ and tackling reading skills for individual classes/students. This booklet has room to develop ideas, challenge, and differentiate tasks (we do this based on Accelerated Reader data). Through these lessons, students develop: annotation skills, comprehension skills, decoding, tackling tier-2 language, and many other skills. The final task is a competition where students create and perform their own ghost story based on the extracts and short stories they have read each week.

A whole-class feedback model for analysing poetry.

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 single lesson exploring the poem ‘London’ by William Blake in the Power and Conflict GCSE cluster.

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

Evidence-informed research guides to develop staff understanding of reading fluency.

A MA, engaging lesson exploring Freytag’s pyramid narrative structure. Learning Challenge: Can I explore how a text is structured through my understanding of ‘Freytag’s pyramid’? Any feedback greatly appreciated.

An exploration of characterisation in Chapter 4 of ‘The Woman In Black’.

A simple template for guided reading sessions. Enter your choice of extract.