Through the use of prepared worksheets, primary students are encouraged to visit websites to appraise the content and to find the information required to answer pre-set questions on popular topics.

This unit of work comprises six one hour lessons which can be taught consecutively or in two sets of three lessons. These lessons could form part of longer unit of work on this theme or they could be the introduction to a unit on story writing.

Some of the resources require teachers to use TextEase, an applicaton used widely in UK primary schools.

This project is designed to support pupils in their work relating to the Year 3 Narrative Unit 4 Authors and Letters in the renewed framework for Literacy in England. The exemplar unit is designed, in three phases, to be covered in three weeks. The resources included in this project may also be useful for pupils in other year groups.

Some of the resources also require teachers to use TextEase.

Over a period of five lessons in one week, students work through the activities and exercises that provide practice in using instructional text whilst at the same time, revising verb tenses and using imperative commands.

This resource aimed at GCSE students is to encourage the writing of a soldier's perspective on the invasion of Normandy during the second world war in 1944. The film 'Saving Private Ryan' can be used to provide the historical perspective and to shape emotions etc but other wartime literature and poetry can also be used, if required.

This unit is aimed at students starting secondary education and provides opportunities to research and evaluate advisory websites [focusing on bullying] and then develop the ideas behind the construction of their own site, and the writing and organisation of materials that will provide advice and guidance to other students.

The resource centres around the production of a newspaper by teams of students, and their presentation to the rest of the class on the roles and responsibilities of an editing team, the challenges to newspaper production and the importance of meeting publication deadlines etc.

This set of resources will help teach KS4 students how to think, plan, formulate and write intelligently on prose. Horror excerpts were chosen because of their appeal to teenagers and because supplementary materials can be found easily.

This resource contains PowerPoint presentations and other resources to develop a teacher's key skills in examination preparation while reinforcing the language of the poems themselves. The presentations can also be used as starting points for student activities.

This project provides two sets of revision resources for all KS3 teachers and their students for the SATs reading and writing papers. The Horror of SATs provides a fun unit with a lively horror focus whilst the Much Ado About Nothing set is designed to work with the set scenes for 2008.

The objective of this unit is to introduce secondary students [Year 7 to 11] to the world of media with a focus on online [and offline] newspapers and advertisements. The unit will help develop skills to analyse presentational and organisational features of news reports and advertisements, to enable them to write their own.

The aim of this unit is to introduce secondary students to the world of reading and writing advice texts. This unit will help the students to develop skills to analyse various features of advice texts and use that knowledge to write their own advice texts. 

This project aims to develop essential skills for A-Level English Literature. A Powerpoint presentation and linked resources prepare students for analysing texts, understanding terminology, for accessing criticisms and for imbuing students with a holistic understanding of the history of English and American Literature.

This project is preparation for KS3 SATs tests and is driven by a PowerPoint presentation and links to worksheets, activities and revision exercises in Publisher and Word.

This project focuses on the study of horror films for Media Studies and driven by a PowerPoint presentation with links to worksheets and activities in Publisher and Word.