Engaging Grammar Intervention for Key Stage 3 & EAL Learners This resource offers 20 thoughtfully designed grammar intervention lessons, perfect for Key Stage 3 students and English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners. Each lesson is anchored in a high-interest topic—like roller coasters, K-pop, or wildfires—paired with clear reading passages, vocabulary support, and targeted grammar practice. Students develop foundational literacy and grammar skills while building confidence and real-world language proficiency. Accessible texts and questions tailored for EAL and lower-literacy learners Step-by-step grammar instruction with scaffolded practice Engaging, contemporary topics to boost motivation Vocabulary building in every lesson Ready to use for interventions, small groups, HOMEWORK or independent studY Roller Coasters: Capitalising names and the first word in a sentence Scary Movies: Ending sentences with a full stop. K-Pop: Using question marks for questions Dogs: Recognising and writing basic nouns Baking: Recognising and writing basic verbs Phones: Recognising and writing basic adjectives Banksy: Using “a” and “an” correctly Labubus: Using “I” as a capital letter Rats: Matching simple subjects and verbs Lab Grown MeatL Using simple plurals. Space: Sentence Types. Identifying and writing simple, compound, and basic complex sentences. AI: Subject-Verb Agreement: Matching singular/plural subjects with correct verb forms. Wildfires: Verb Tenses: Using past, present, and future tense verbs accurately. Moon Landing: Punctuation Basics: Using capital letters, full stops question marks, exclamation marks, and commas in lists. Kidfluencers: Pronoun Use: Selecting appropriate pronouns and ensuring pronoun-agreement. Hair: Using Compound Sentences: using coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, so) in compound sentences. Animal’s Mental Health: Apostrophes: Using apostrophes for contractions and possessives. Music: Adjectives and Adverbs: Understanding the difference and using both to describe nouns and verbs. Feelings: Prepositional Phrases: Recognising and using prepositions and simple prepositional phrases. Mental Imagery: Common Homophones : Distinguishing between words like their/there/they’re, to/too/two, your/you’re.

Curriculum & Culture: The Mega Educational Quiz Brand new and ready-to-use, this Mega Quiz is perfect for schools, youth groups, classes, and assemblies. With an impressive 20 rounds of General Knowledge and Pop Culture content, it is suitable for delivery online, virtually, or in-person. Test your students with rounds covering History, Science, Maths, Geography (including Capital Cities), and Literature (Books & Quotations). The quiz also features highly engaging current topics like Netflix, Video Games, Celebrities, Sports, and the very latest 2025 Songs and Movies, ensuring it’s a fun quiz that appeals to all students. Suitable for schools, youth groups, classes, in person, online and assemblies Rounds: 1, Word events 2. Celebrities 3. Music trivia 4. The movies 5. History 6. Capital cities 7. Science 8. Maths 9. Netflix 10. Sports 11. Books 12. National dishes 13. Video games 14. Animals 15. Quotations 16. Christmas trivia 17. Movies 18. 2025 songs 19. Songs 20. Cartoon characters.

A short booklet revising simple sentence structures, conjunctions and compound sentences. Also includes articles about space and astronauts with comprehension/ information retrieval activities. (Cross- curricular: Science.)

This was put together for a low ability KS3 literacy group (approx level 3) and was used after the Space Sentences resource. Students study a short science fiction story and its elements. They write a news report based on the story. Students then write their own science fiction stories.

This booklet is a structured reading intervention designed to help students master essential grammar and writing skills in an engaging, topic-based format. Each section uses high-interest subjects like roller coasters, scary movies, K-pop, and more to introduce and practice key concepts such as sentence types, punctuation, verb tenses, pronouns, plurals, apostrophes, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and common homophones. The activities are scaffolded to build confidence and reinforce understanding, with clear examples and practice tasks woven throughout. Teachers can use the booklet flexibly for whole-class instruction, small groups, or individual support, making it a practical resource for boosting reading, writing, and language skills in students who need extra intervention. Skills: Capitalising names and the first word in a sentence Ending sentences with a full stop. Using question marks for questions Recognising and writing basic nouns Recognising and writing basic verbs Recognising and writing basic adjectives Using “a” and “an” correctly Using “I” as a capital letter Matching simple subjects and verbs Using simple plurals. Sentence Types. Identifying and writing simple, compound, and basic complex sentences. Subject-Verb Agreement: Matching singular/plural subjects with correct verb forms. Verb Tenses: Using past, present, and future tense verbs accurately. Punctuation Basics: Using capital letters, full stops question marks, exclamation marks, and commas in lists. Pronoun Use: Selecting appropriate pronouns and ensuring pronoun-agreement. Using Compound Sentences: using coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, so) in compound sentences. Apostrophes: Using apostrophes for contractions and possessives. Adjectives and Adverbs: Understanding the difference and using both to describe nouns and verbs. Prepositional Phrases: Recognising and using prepositions and simple prepositional phrases. Common Homophones : Distinguishing between words like their/there/they’re, to/too/two, your/you’re.

Here are 31 literacy games. The are suitable for a range of abilities, although some are easier than others. Click on the first slide to get to games for the topic of your choice. Some games need miniwhite board but most can be used with little/ no equipment.

A resource revising and practising simple/compound/ complex sentences using examples from chapters 12&13 ofThe Hunger Gamers. Students do not need to have read/be reading the book to use the resource.

Fully resourced. Powerpoint. Differentiated paper with reading and writing questions. Planning sheet for letter to Fifa. Nver-heard-the-word grid. Focuses on Guardian article about hosting the world cup in Qatar.

An emotions check in list using superheroes. Students can check in during lessons or at the start. Alternatively different emotions can be printed and displayed separately (resource included) for students to stick their names on. “Go Green” calming down strategies included. Can be printed back to back and laminated for students who need them.

A cover lesson looking at the context of Macbeth and his relationship with James I. Includes vocabulary, comprehension and thinking tasks. (could be used as an introduction lesson or revision)

Round One: 2024 Films Round Two: 2024 Music Round Three: Music Through The Years Round Four: Famous Faces Round Five: Netflix Round Six: Video Games Round Seven: Sports Round Eight: Maths Round Nine: World Geography Round Ten: General Knowledge

An alternative to book reviews. Could be used to review class readers or as homework.

A one off lesson made to coincide with the BBC series being released. Could be used as part of a dystopian scheme or as a stand alone lesson on inference.

19 photographs and prompts to use as creative writing stimulus.

A worksheet to be printed A3 and annotated with one quote each for: Jack, Ralph, Piggy, Roger, Simon The Best Flipchart gives questions for each character to use as discussion: What does your quote reveal about the character? What does your character represent in the novel? How can we link it to the context?

Includes an extract, dictionary task, comprehension questions, revision of some writers techniques (colour and alliteration) a writing task and peer assessment.

11 rounds including 2020 music, music through the ages, Geography, Science and General Knowledge.

Two worksheets, one is a summary of Macbeth and one is the historical story of Macbeth. Both have comprehension questions suitable as homework assignments.

Explores images from the poem and inspires students to write about their own heritage.

A powerpoint revising the following language devices using picture prompts. Students practise using each device in a sentence inspired by the picture and then can expand one into a piece of extended writing. Alliteration Simile Rule of three Senses Adjective Interesting verb Sentence starting with an adverb Colour Pathetic fallacy Personification Onomatopoeia (Can use as starter, revision or whole lesson)

A one off lesson writing poems about abstract nouns. Students imagine abstract nouns as if they are creatures.