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Flash Fiction to Narrative Writing A Complete Writer-Based English Unit (Years 7–10) This bundle brings together all lessons, prompts, editing workshops, and teacher guidance needed to run a full, coherent narrative writing unit using a writer-based approach. The unit is designed to do something very deliberate: to shift the classroom away from constant teacher input and towards students spending sustained time actually writing, revising, and thinking like writers. Across the unit, students

This bundle is designed to support teachers in confidently teaching humour as both a literary craft and a powerful social tool. It brings together explicit instruction, deep analysis, creative application, and philosophical reflection into a structured, engaging unit suitable for middle to secondary English classrooms. What’s Included in This Bundle: ✔️ Full unit plan for teaching comedy in English ✔️ Unit Planning & Teaching Guidance ✔️ Clear learning intentions and outcomes ✔️ A “How t

Teach personal narrative writing with confidence using this complete, classroom-ready bundle designed for middle school and early secondary English. This comprehensive resource combines explicit instruction, structured student practice, assessment tools, and a full curriculum-aligned unit plan to support teachers from planning through to final submission. Students develop narrative voice, sensory language, reflection, pacing, dialogue, and structure through scaffolded activities, while teachers

This is essentially an entire term of material ready to go that requires minimal modifications and in-class teaching. This bundle gives you everything needed to teach, scaffold, and assess information report writing from start to finish. It combines student workbooks, teaching slides, writing scaffolds, feedback tools, and assessment resources to support clear, structured instruction. What’s included: • Student workbook with step-by-step lessons and writing tasks • Teaching PowerPoint slides int

This is almost an entire unit that will require very little teaching. All you need to do is introduce the topic, print the workbook, hand it to students, and then let them build skills that they will later transfer into their own personal narrative texts. This resource will save you almost a whole term of work, and free you up inside the classroom as well. I have already used this with great success. I personally believe this resource is one of the best value items in my store. In a nutshell,

This is a cumulative workbook that guides students through the entire process for writing their own information text. This will free you up hours inside and outside the classroom. This student workbook teaches learners how to plan, research, draft, and publish a high-quality information report. It includes guided lessons, model texts, analysis activities, and structured writing scaffolds that support students from topic selection through to final submission. What’s included: Step-by-step informa

I Am Malala A Complete Persuasive Writing Workbook (Ethos, Pathos, Logos & Kairos) This resource is a rigorous, student-facing workbook designed to teach persuasive writing through a powerful real-world text: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai. Rather than treating persuasion as a list of techniques, this resource shows students how persuasion actually works in authentic texts—through lived experience, ethical voice, emotional restraint, and clear reasoning. Students learn to read like writers

I Am Malala A Complete Persuasive Writing Workbook (Ethos, Pathos, Logos & Kairos) This resource is a rigorous, student-facing workbook designed to teach persuasive writing through a powerful real-world text: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai. Rather than treating persuasion as a list of techniques, this resource shows students how persuasion actually works in authentic texts—through lived experience, ethical voice, emotional restraint, and clear reasoning. Students learn to read like writers

Adding Symbolism (Editing Phase) Deepening Meaning Through Subtle Craft ChoicesThis lesson focuses on helping students move beyond surface-level storytelling by introducing symbolism as an editing tool rather than a decorative extra. Students learn that symbols are not added to a story for show, but to quietly carry deeper meaning and emotional weight. Rather than asking students to insert obvious or explained symbols, the lesson emphasises subtlety. Students revise existing sections of their n

Angels & Blueberries Lesson 2 | Flash Fiction, Voice, Tone & ImaginationThis thoughtfully designed Lesson 2 English resource introduces students to the power of flash fiction through the imaginative short text “Angels and Blueberries” by Tara Campbell. Students explore how very short stories can still carry meaning, emotion, voice, and subtext—often through what is implied rather than explicitly stated. Ideal for Years 7–9, this lesson blends close reading, discussion, and creative writi

Complete Narrative Planning ToolkitStrong stories don’t happen by accident—they are carefully structured. This Story Structure & Plot resource gives students a powerful toolkit for planning, shaping, and refining narratives using multiple professional story structures and practical writing scaffolds. Designed for middle and high school English classrooms, this resource helps students move beyond loose ideas to intentional, purposeful plotting, while giving teachers flexible tools that suit a

Characterisation: Building Believable, Memorable Characters (Printable & Digital Resource)Strong stories begin with strong characters. This comprehensive Characterisation resource guides students step-by-step through the process of creating believable, complex characters that feel real to readers. Grounded in narrative craft and supported by insights from neuroscience, this resource helps students understand why characterisation matters and how to do it effectively. When students learn to bui

This PPT is designed to support the teaching of my Information Report Writing Workbook, also found in my store. This resource provides a clear, research-informed framework for teaching information report writing in secondary classrooms. It supports teachers in explicitly teaching structure, language features, research skills, and assessment strategies while building academic literacy across subject areas. What’s included: • Genre overview and key characteristics of information reports • Pedagog

This resource was desinged to be used alongside my Personal Narrative Workbook, also found on my TPT store. This is designed for middle and secondary English, this resource helps students understand exactly what strong narrative writing looks like while supporting teachers with clear marking criteria aligned to curriculum outcomes. Students unpack the rubric language, explore what top writers do, practise applying criteria, and develop deeper understanding of voice, reflection, sensory detail,

Dialogue Transformations (Editing Phase) Strengthening Character, Conflict, and Voice Through Spoken LanguageThis lesson focuses on helping students improve dialogue by experimenting with how characters speak, react, and respond to one another. Rather than simply fixing punctuation or adding more lines, students learn that strong dialogue reveals character, power, and emotion beneath the surface of what is said. The lesson treats dialogue as a flexible, creative tool. By transforming existing c

Narrative Text Transplant A Writer-Based Editing Technique for Strengthening Narrative WritingThis lesson introduces students to a practical editing technique used by real writers: isolating a section of text in order to see it more clearly. Rather than editing an entire narrative at once, students learn to lift out a single passage and work on it in isolation before deciding how it should live within the larger story. The focus of this lesson is not correction for the sake of neatness, but ref

Welcome to an interactive exploration of humour and effective writing! In this presentation, you'll discover different types of comedy, analyse what makes things funny, and practice the PEEL paragraph structure.

10-Week English Unit: Flash Fiction → Extended Narrative (Stage 4 / Years 7–8)This 10-week English unit invites students to explore the power of storytelling through flash fiction and transform small narrative moments into sophisticated, extended imaginative texts. Students read, analyse, and create short prose texts with layered meanings, exploring how culture, identity, and values are shaped through language, structure, and voice. The unit gradually builds students’ confidence and craft, cu

Humour is one of the most powerful—and risky—tools in advertising. When used effectively, it captures attention, builds emotional connection, and makes brands unforgettable. When used poorly, it confuses audiences or undermines credibility. This engaging, theory-driven PowerPoint introduces students to humorous advertising as a strategic marketing technique, combining consumer psychology, media literacy, and critical analysis. Designed for secondary Marketing, Media Studies, English, and Bus

Help students understand the real power of humour beyond laughter. This engaging, research-informed PowerPoint explores how humour positively impacts physical health, mental well-being, relationships, and everyday problem-solving. Designed for middle to secondary English, PDHPE, wellbeing, or pastoral care lessons, this resource blends science, reflection, and real-world application in an accessible, student-friendly format. Students learn why humour matters, how it works in the body and mind