Engaging, structured English resources.
My lessons are designed to support all learners — including those with SEND — through clear routines, rich vocabulary, and purposeful tasks that build confidence and real progress. Ready to teach. Easy to adapt. Focused on growth.
Engaging, structured English resources.
My lessons are designed to support all learners — including those with SEND — through clear routines, rich vocabulary, and purposeful tasks that build confidence and real progress. Ready to teach. Easy to adapt. Focused on growth.
This lesson introduces students to the sights, sounds and structure of Elizabethan England – the world Shakespeare lived and wrote in. Designed for Year 7, the lesson blends accessible historical context with rich sensory writing tasks to help students step into the shoes of different Elizabethan characters, from nobles to market traders.
Includes:
Clear key questions to guide learning
A scaffolded vocabulary slide on “Hierarchy”
A choice-based sensory writing task with detailed examples
A creative diary entry activity with social roles to choose from
A final reflection using emoji responses and sentence starters
Suitable for lower ability and SEN learners with visual and sentence-level scaffolding throughout
Perfect for building historical understanding ahead of any Shakespeare unit.
KS3 Shakespeare Year 7 Unit – Shakespeare and Elizabethan England (20 Full Lessons)
A fresh, student-friendly introduction to Shakespeare – building contextual knowledge, analytical skills, and creative confidence from the very start of KS3.
This unique 20-lesson bundle takes a bold and engaging approach to teaching Shakespeare to Year 7 students. Rather than starting with a full play, this unit immerses learners in the world Shakespeare lived and wrote in, gradually building the knowledge, vocabulary and interpretive skills they’ll need for successful GCSE study.
Through structured, accessible lessons, students explore:
Life in Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s theatre
Universal themes like love, power, betrayal and ambition
Key dramatic techniques such as soliloquies, irony, and comic relief
Creative responses including short stories, soliloquy writing and poetry
Extracts from Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Shakespearean sonnets
Every lesson follows a consistent format with:
✔️ A guiding Key Question
✔️ Vocabulary development tasks
✔️ A Focus Zone activity (analytical, creative, or performance-based)
✔️ Final reflection tasks
✔️ Supportive scaffolds and SEN-friendly structure throughout
This scheme doesn’t just study Shakespeare – it helps students understand why he matters, how he wrote, and why his stories still resonate. Ideal for laying contextual and conceptual foundations in Year 7 and setting students up with confidence for KS4.
Lesson 20 – Final Reflection
End the unit with a letter to their future self and exit slips that celebrate growth in confidence, empathy and understanding.
12 bold punctuation posters for stylish, purposeful classroom display.
Includes: full stop, comma, ellipsis, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, exclamation mark, question mark, ampersand, hyphen, quotation marks, and parenthesis.
Each features a clear symbol and simple student-friendly definition – perfect for literacy walls and English displays.
