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A collection of strange, funny and grotesque pictures to be used at the teacher's discretion VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas, City and Guilds
The aim of this is to close the vocabulary gap by introducing all students to a range of Tier 2 vocabulary. By way of reminder, the different tiers of vocabulary are described by David Dida... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Whole School Literacy
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this is using gothic texts and using the active reading skills to question and explore. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
A lesson for low ability year 7s using conjunctions to complete sentences and 'score a goal'. Click 'score' to go to the next sentence. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar
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A wide range of texts exploring the different types of heroes and villains. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
This lesson is focused on the first chapter on Pride and Prejudice. The starter activity assumes that you have watched the first hour of the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. The lesson focu... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
This file is adaptable for 1-2 lessons, dependent on whether you are going to read a whole chapter or extracts. It assumes knowledge of the conventions of fantasy and horror. Students read the opening... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
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This lesson explores the blurb of Coraline, focusing on talking about how it shows conventions of horror and fantasy. Students will also look at foreshadowing and predicting what may happen in the sto... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
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Comparing the rallying speeches of two British Queens to get students to work on comparisons. Model paragraph is in the style of a question two from AQA paper 2 VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
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Romeo and Juliet SOW, cobbled together from various sources over the years. Not all my own work but hopefully useful to some of you. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Year 9 study "The Woman in Black" at the start of the year. It forms part of our spiral curriculum because it helps to build students' knowledge of Victorian (style) ghost stories, thereby preparing... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
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SOW for Romeo and Juliet for Year 8. It contains resources collated/adapted from other sources as well as original activities. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
A basic scheme of work aimed at Year 7 students on the novel 'Holes'. Feel free to use and adapt! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
Written with help from teachers from several schools including The Priory. Full SOL including:PP (empty slides for Do Nows)Week by week lesson MT planKOSeveral texts Copy of an "interesting"... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Please find lessons and sow posted separately. I designed these to be completed alongside the reading of The Giver, starting a few weeks in. The success criteria is the same each week because the stud... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Please find the series of lessons to go alongside this posted as a separate resource. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
The Giver by Lois Lowry. A great book to read with Y7. Here we have a series of lesson ppts created on Google slides, so formatting may be lost in converting to ppt. The entire novel is on the lesson... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
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'A Song for Ella Grey' written by David Almond reading comprehension questions.There are also additional resources linked Greek Myths to support students wider understanding of the novel. Aside f... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
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Detailed Powerpoint scheme working through the KS3 novel Tribes VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
Detailed MTP for Shakespeare/Much Ado About Nothing. The first half takes a thematic approach looking at colonialism. The second half shifts to a close study ago Much Ado. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
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A narrative writing scheme of work designed to take year 7 up to the Christmas holidays. Using 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe' extracts, children have weekly opportunity to flex their cre... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
Whole SOL based around speaking and listening for Key Stage 3 and lower ability Key Stage 4. Utilising persuasive techniques and writing structure. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Speaking and Listening
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Whole scheme introducing creative writing and writing techniques VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
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A writing scheme of work for Coraline by Neil Gaiman based upon the reading SOL written by Jane Peters and my own work on structure using Freytag's pyrmaid. Includes a KO, PP and week by week SOL plan VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
A basic scheme of work aimed at Year 7 students on the novel 'Once'. Feel free to use and adapt! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
A 16 page booklet of the full text of The Signalman, with glossary and pictures. Aimed at KS3 students. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Journey's End full scheme of work. Some resources cobbled together from other sources, plagarism not intentional. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
This is scheme of work for KS3 for non fiction autobiographical writing. We also used it for cross curriculum links with Science and Humanities. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
This sheet is for all students to stick in their exercise books, either on the inside front cover or the back inside cover for them to refer to. If students complete a task and need a challenge questi... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
I have created a range of PPts and resources using some modern examples to introduce non-fiction texts and writing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA, Eduqas
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A short SOW for year 7.Lessons and extracts based on 'The Tell-Tale Heart', 'Frankenstein', 'The Raven' and 'Dracula'. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Reading, Vocabulary, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
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A knowledge organiser for a 5-week unit of Animal Poetry with homework tasks. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
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To help students embed knowledge of word classes. Could be used at KS3 or KS4. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar
There is a blank Book Look sheet and a completed one in the folder. Before starting marking have the blank Book Look sheet in front of you and the work, if this is in book form, then ask students to l... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels, Poetry, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Writing
There is a blank Book Look sheet and a completed one in the folder. Before starting marking have the blank Book Look sheet in front of you and the work, if this is in book form, then ask students to l... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels, Poetry, Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Writing
The lesson focuses on the speech given by Boudicca before her defeat to the Romans. There is a particular focus on emotive language and how she wants to rally her army before attack. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
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A base ppt for creating a letter to the local council. Uses the theme of graffiti. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
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Fun activity created after completing the novel with Year 9 as a class reader. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
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One 2 hr lesson. Part of a scheme of work on Dystopia and Utopia. Aimed at middle ability year 9. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
There are gaps as this is cloze exercise. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
This is a ppt to encourage KS3 students to create a Gothic story that builds tension with each paragraph having a new focus.It includes pictures, captions and an eerie soundtrack. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
This is a prestation going through different strategies for EAL students. It has a summary of each strategy, some examples of tasks, and copies of completed work. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading
A booklet that I have written for our updated rhetoric unit. Students will study speeches and letters from Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Michelle Obama and Marcus Rashford. We have 9 week curriculum cyc... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Speaking and Listening, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
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A KO for our updated Art of Persuasion unit which explores the use of Pathos, Ethos and Logos in speech and writing taking students on a journey of famous rhetoric from Gandhi to Rashford. Includes de... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
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A knowledge organiser for our new yr 7 scheme exploring the evolution of the hero from Beowulf to Captain Marvel. Includes a Beowulf plot summary, Freytag's pyramid; characterisation terminology inclu... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Reading, Speaking and Listening, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
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A KO for our new Dracula scheme for year 9 including: plot summary, key characterisation terminology, a list of explicitly taught Tier 2 and 3 vocabulary, a definition of Gothic Literature and guide t... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels, Reading, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
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One a day for KS3 groups to go over basics.We called it 'catch up curriculum' but it's just a revising of basic skills.Questions ask students to think about vocab, punctuation, word choice and spellin... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar
A Full 7 week SOW made from lots of resources I have found/made. Comes with a complete homework module. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Homework, Novels, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
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A list of common homophones with definitions. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar
This power point is to be used with Neil Gaiman's short story. It develops student's understanding of Gothic literature and includes ideas for activities such as: monologue, newspaper and descriptive... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Speaking and Listening, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
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End of term fun PPT for your classes! 6 categories: events this year, say what you see, music, general knowledge, films, guess the celeb. Enjoy! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Whole School Literacy
Covering Dracula, Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde and Jack the Ripper. Used with KS3 to develop creative writing, subordinate clauses, analysis and familiarisation with 19th Century writing. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a creative writing lesson for a Year 6 transition lesson. The ppt is based on the book/film Inkheart and has the trailer for the film, slides with captions and music (from the film) to gu... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Four lessons from a longer scheme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
Four lessons from a longer scheme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
Four lessons from a longer scheme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Plays, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
Four lessons from a longer scheme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
Four lessons extracted from a longer scheme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
3-4 lessons - part of a full scheme. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
This is the first four lessons in the full Writing through Time scheme posted a few weeks ago. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
A lesson to explore emotions in A Poison Tree. Focus on extended metaphors. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Support mats to help students when writing fiction and non-fiction texts. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Reminder on including commas after fronted adverbials VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Whole School Literacy, Writing
The aim of this unit of work is for Year 8 pupils to engage with the form of the play and its content, taking a freeing approach to the text that is talk- and drama-based, and active. In lieu o... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
A scheme we used with Year 9 this year - some bits will definitely need tweaking, and I feel like I've lost a couple of slides along the way - sorry! VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Scheme of Learning, based around the short Ray Bradbury story 'All Summer in a Day.' The aim of the Scheme is to introduce students to some of the skills they will need for their GCSE Language papers,... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
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Full Scheme of Learning analysing a range of poetry based around the theme of relationships. The aim of the SoL is to help students develop the skills needed for their Anthology study at GCSE. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry, Writing
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Full Scheme of Learning covering a range of World War I Poets and Poetry. Students focus on developing skills in analysing and comparing poems through extended writing. There is also a focus on contex... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
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Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Whole School Literacy
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Macbeth SoL for Year 7 with a focus on the character development of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's characters (culminating in a venn diagram comparison and comparative paragraph assessment. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
A scheme of work for The Tempest. Following these lessons, students worked in groups to do an evaluative presentation on one of the following topics (differentiated):• “Prospero is a cruel tyrant.”• “... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
A great intro for Media or Film Studies if studied at GCSE, if not, this is a great accessible unit for Year 9 students to explore a range of non-fiction texts. The scheme Developing an awareness of h... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
This is my curriculum map for KS3 and year 10 (we are a new school so only just got to ks4). Hopefully, it is helpful. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
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Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
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Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
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Resources for reading a book in a day using Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
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A full SOW for a Y7 unit around Catherine Johnson's Sawbones. Each lesson is planned and there are retrieval activities at the start of each lesson. Some of these resources are adapted from others I h... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
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A lesson on capital punishment in Oliver Twist. Features a real life case and requires students to formulate arguments then write these up in the form of a letter. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Plays
Exam/Board: AQA
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This lesson is part of a bigger series of lessons on Oliver Twist. The lesson explores themes used in the play (adaptation by Nigel Bryant). VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Exam/Board: AQA
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A competition for the whole school. Give a teacher a sticker with one half of a literary pairing. Students have to match the teacher to the list on the sheet, and for extra challenge, name... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Persuasive writing lesson. Students will learn how to identify ethos, pathos and logos. Students will learn the AFOREST acronym and will put it into practice in a fun writing activity. Can be easily a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A fun resource to get students thinking about how we perceive monsters. It further gets students to consider how to differentiate between the characteristics of humans VS monsters. In this resour... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
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A differentiated short SOW (approx 12 lessons) exploring the plot and characters in 'Wonder'. This SOW is great for upper KS2, EAL or low level literacy learners at KS3. Note* this SOW has been create... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
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A differentiated short SOW (approx 12 lessons) exploring the plot and characters in 'Wonder'. This SOW is great for upper KS2, EAL or low level literacy learners at KS3. Note* this SOW has been create... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Powerpoint SOW for Where The World Ends - Y7/8. Needs to be tinkered with but there's lots on there to get you started. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
A scheme of work designed for teaching at a Pupil Referral Unit/SEN school. All PowerPoints and resources included. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry, Writing
A couple of adverts that I have transcribed from the 'How to Fail' podcast with Elizabeth Day. Could be used for cover or as a starter/couple of starters for identifying persuasive techniques. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
I usually use this with Year 7 but you could use with other KS3 classes.The lesson is based around watching a couple of popular Christmas TV adverts, then a creative writing activity follows each one.... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Reading, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A couple of lessons on Penny Dreadfuls as part of a larger focus on Gothic Literature. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
A worksheet to accompany the TED video on iambic pentameter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lsuyUNu_4 VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas, City and Guilds
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
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Useful for y8/9 looking at DAFOREST techniques and dissecting Rashford's letter. There is a what - how - why model that can also be used for other extracts. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Whole School Literacy
Exam/Board: AQA
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A selection of extracts based on ideas on disciplinary literacy. Each section has three extracts and the extracts get increasingly more challenging. Students then plan and write a response based on th... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Exam/Board: AQA
A unit on The Lady of Shalott which I did with a low ability yr8 group. Complete set of resources. Some are based on things I found, so I can't claim complete credit for it all. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
This is a structure lesson which was based on year 8 pupils (ignore the title I was having a funny five) who were reading Animal Farm but would work for pupils that haven't been reading it as it is ba... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
Exam/Board: AQA
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A workbook I created for students who are absent from school and need further support. It follows our Scheme of learning. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
A lesson with detailed annotated lesson plan I created for an interview.Year 9 are currently studying a unit entitled ‘Identity’. In this unit, we are using poetry as a way to show how writers use lan... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
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A resource made compiling:ExtractQuestion PaperMark SchemeGrade Boundariesfor every paper sat under the new spec for AQA since 2017. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Homework
Exam/Board: AQA
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A scheme of learning for A Monster Calls completed this half term. A Monster Calls is a stunning text that beautifully describes the emotional trauma of Conor O'Malley. I hope you find the r... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
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A half term SOL including skeleton PP, all word files, SOL and KO for teaching to year 9 to support their preparation for KS4. All sources are about people who have been erased from history due to sex... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
This is the first lesson on the opening chapters of Terror Kid, focusing on characterisation. I used this with Y8 students. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
21 lessons based on short stories or extracts, some poetry and non-fiction links too. Inspirational stories aimed at year 7, equality themed lessons aimed at year 8 - extract list included to show whi... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading
Old but maybe a start for a tweak. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Speaking and Listening, Writing
Needs jazzing up as I took out all of the pictures, but the basics are there. Might save someone some time. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Reading
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An original text (700+ words) with starter tasks, comprehension and analysis questions, extended writing prompts, and reading mark scheme.Ideal for stand-alone lessons, cover lessons, or as part of a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Vocabulary, Writing
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An original text (700+ words) with starter tasks, comprehension and analysis questions, extended writing prompts, and reading mark scheme.Ideal for stand-alone lessons, cover lessons, or as part of a... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Writing
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A stand alone double lesson for year 7, we are going to use this for their first English lesson with us. They will produce a piece of creative writing that we will use as a baseline assessment piece.&... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
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Exit Tickets allow pupils to reflect on their learning at the end of the lesson, thereby removing the need for a teacher-led plenary. Promotes independent and personal thinking skills, and provides fo... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels, Plays, Poetry, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary
Knowledge Organiser for KS3 Novel 'A Little Piece of Ground' by Elizabeth Laird, a resource to support students' study of the text. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
This is an excellent and timely novel.These resources have been created with thanks to inspiration from the freely available Reading with Relevance Guide found online.The SOW takes students through th... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
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This is the second part of the SoL: it has the resources to accompany lessons and an end of unit assessment. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
This is Part 1 of the upload; it has the lesson ppts. The end of unit assessment and resources are in Part 2 VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
A six-week resourced scheme of work for Year 7. Aims of the unit include class reading of a book for pleasure, considering structure and character development and exploring genre. Best tau... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Reading
I have cobbled together this list of 50 questions for A Christmas Carol from various other resources. There are assessment objective specific questions (although they are not labelled explicitly as th... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Novels
Encourage pupils to think about the positives and negatives of the Euros 2021 and write a formal letter to one of the footballers. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Whole School Literacy, Writing
A resource VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Speaking and Listening
This is a creative writing sow aimed at Year 7 with the theme of archetypal heroes and villains. There are numerous extracts and tasks to embed writing skills. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Accelerated Reading was a money pit for a while, but after implementing the key elements detailed in the handbook, we have seen exceptional progress in students who engage with the lessons. They also... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, Whole School Literacy
A selection of POS and lesson ideas from our English Dept masterclasses, aimed at Yr6 students coming to our school in the following year. They are a bit old and disorganised but they can be ada... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays, Poetry, Speaking and Listening, Writing
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, WJEC, Eduqas
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This is a full scheme of work with booklet and PowerPoints, plus an overview, covering around 5 weeks. It has been created with Year 7 in mind. I have brought together some previously existing resourc... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
A SOW designed to support the teaching of 'Noughts and Crosses' the play to y8 students for their English lessons. I have included clips from the Pilot theatre production of the play at the... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
We used this with Year 8 as part of their unit, but can really be used with any year group as an unseen poem/ making inferences etc. As part of the PPT I've include her performance of the poem on the... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A fun little worksheet to introduce the many insults in Shakespeare's works. This can be used as an introduction to Shakespeare or as a starter task with KS3, allowing them to become familiar with lan... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Exam/Board: AQA
These are four two hour lessons that we originally used in lockdown but are now being used by our exclusion room. The powerpoints include a warm up to the fantastic Oak National lessons by Stuart Pryk... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature, Reading
As a school we had worked on DEAR but it simply wasn't working, teachers were scared of teaching reading or students were allowed to simply stare at a book for 20 minutes. This is not about readi... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Vocabulary, Whole School Literacy
SoL using 12th Night. It culminates in a speech assessment as well as focusing on analysis. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Power-point and resources for Transactional Writing. Designed for Y9 but can be adapted. Credit to Mr S Pryke as some of his amazing resources are included. Put together quite quickly so feel free to... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
A series of lessons using extracts mainly to explore the Lang P1 GCSE skills through the text and apply literary and social theory. Another teacher completed other book content teaching at the s... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Exam/Board: AQA
An introduction to some literary villains looking at common threads of description etc. There is assessment for Reading, Writing and S&L, and ultimately it was designed top lead into a Scheme on S... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
This Scheme tries to combine Paper 2 non-fiction writing skills with an introduction to the poems not related to war. It focuses on feminism, poverty, race and the environment building towards pupils... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
This contains PPTs and resources for a full scheme of work. It is not all my work; I have used many different resources that I have collected over time, and many thanks to all those who produced them,... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Some examples of how Katie Ashford's book Building Brilliant Vocabulary can be turned into PowerPoints to teach alongside your SoLs. Just choose the words that suit the texts/tasks and embed them into... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Vocabulary
I put this booklet together to support Year 6 pupils last year during lockdown. It could easily be adapted for Year 7 pupils. I hope you find it useful. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels
A five week (20 lessons) poetry scheme for Year Seven. Some resources are original, some are collated from a variety of other sources. SOW, lesson PPTs, resource booklet and homework ideas... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Useful revision task for creative writing, with an example paragraph, structure, and language technique checklist for introduction to Paper 1, Section B. Can be tailored as GCSE exam practise. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Writing
Exam/Board: AQA
Suitable for remote learning adapted from another resource from TES. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Plays
Taught to year 8 as part of our 'poetry and short stories from other cultures' unit. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry, Reading
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
Taught to year 8 as part of our 'poetry from other cultures' unit. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
This extract is studied as part of our 'Poetry and short stories from other cultures' unit. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
This taught as part of our year 8 'Poetry from Other Cultures' unit of work. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, IGCSE, WJEC, Eduqas
This is a series of lessons based around The Woman in Black. It covers some techniques and mostly analytical writing focussing on atmosphere. I have adapted some of this to use as a creative writing f... VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Novels, Reading
I've updated my list of great things to watch that support the teaching of English at KS3 & KS4. I've added some documentaries also. VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Homework
Exam/Board: AQA
This is a scheme I used with KS3 but you could take to poems and use them at GCSE also to practice for the Unseen element.Let me know if it is useful :) VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Poetry
Exam/Board: AQA
Level: Key Stage 3
Unit: Reading, SPAG Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar, Writing
