B and D Publishing’s KS3 English Skills series consists of four packs with work on language topics designed to meet some of the criteria in the framework for teaching, Years 7-9. The English Skills Series includes basic work at word and sentence level covering phonics, nouns, verbs, punctuation, plural endings etc. This pack is intended for revision and consolidation of these topics for pupils at Level 4. The worksheets are also suitable for home learning. KS3 English Skills packs build on these basic skills at Levels 3-7 English Skills Series 1 Levels 3-4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-one-resource-pack-11860749 English Skills Series 3 Levels 4-5: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-three-resource-pack-11860761 English Skills Series 4 Level 5+: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-four-resource-pack-11860797 KS3 English Skills Series Two is 40 pages. A set of sample pages is available for free download here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-two-resource-pack-sample-pages-11860809 For even better value, bundles are also available: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-resource-pack-bundle-11860826 The regular licence enables you to use this resource with your own students. Copy, edit and provide the material to those students you teach in any medium or format for the purpose of educating them and/or their private study/exam revision. The school licence allows you also to share this resource with colleagues at your school. KS3 English Skills Series Two Contents Nouns 1 Adjectives 1 Pronouns Verbs 1 - past & present tense Adverbs Syllables Suffixes Homophones Here, there and everywhere Verbs 2 - progressive tenses Plurals Prefixes Speech marks Apostrophes Similes ight words Nouns 2 Adjectives 2 shun endings sion endings Gender .tch words Changing words Word order Nouns and verbs Noun phrases Determiners Verbs 3 - present progressive tense Verbs 4 - past progressive tense ible / able endings dge words Punctuation Possessive pronouns Homophones 2 to / too / two Common confusions Collective nouns Words, words, words Wordsearch - homophones Subject / Verb agreement Also available: KS2 English Skills Revision https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-english-skills-revision-series-one-resource-pack-11860719 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-english-skills-revision-series-two-resource-pack-11860734 See also the Working With Words series: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/working-with-words-series-1-4-scheme-of-work-bundle-11961274 Visit our Shop for more high quality English resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing If you like our resources please leave a review.

B and D Publishing’s scheme of work Forty Favourite Poems Series One. The Series One and Two poetry resource packs each contain 40 poems that are essential reading for all lovers of English literature, by poets including Blake, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Keats, Emily Bronte and more. Series One is suitable for KS3 pupils and Series Two for students working at KS4 and beyond. The copyright free text plus work on each poem is provided. The pack can also be used by pupils for revision and home learning. Forty Favourite Poems Series One includes: The Charge of the Light Brigade, Sea Fever, The Eagle, Silver, Inversnaid, Home Thoughts from Abroad, Snake, Cargoes, Sarah Byng and many more. Forty Favourite Poems Series Two includes: To a Mouse, A Case of Murder, Toads, Dover Beach, Stop All The Clocks, Ode to Autumn, The Thought Fox, If, Ozymandias and many more. The Series One scheme of work is 46 pages and free sample pages can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-forty-favourite-poems-series-one-scheme-of-work-sample-pages-11904416 Series Two, suitable for KS4 students, is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-forty-favourite-poems-series-two-scheme-of-work-11902267 See also our Language for Literature resource packs. Pupils need to talk and write about many aspects of the texts they use. To do this well they need to be familiar with the major technical terms. B & D Publishing’s two Language for Literature schemes of work spanning key stages 3 and 4 give pupils a sound understanding of many literary terms. The literary terms covered include Acrostics, Alliteration, Anecdote, Clerihew, Epic, Imagery, Simile, Metaphor, Myth, The Ballad, Fable, Assonance, Autobiography, Cinquain, Cliché, Elegy, Haiku, Ambiguity, Rhyme, Rhythm, Kenning, Legend, Ode, Parable, Parody, Personification, Sonnet, Limerick, Soliloquy, Pun, Spoonerisms, Dialect, Dialogue, Epitaph, Onomatopoeia, Proof Reading, Proverbs, Riddles, Anachronism, Allegory, Diaries and Journals, Dramatic Irony, Hyperbole and much more. Language for Literature Series One (KS3) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-series-one-scheme-of-work-11911638 Language for Literature Series Two (KS4) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-series-two-scheme-of-work-11911644 For even better value a KS3 and KS4 Language for Literature & Forty Favourite Poems Bundle is also available: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-and-poetry-bundle-ks3-and-ks4-11930332 We also have Language for Literature and Narrative Poems bundles: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-and-narrative-poems-bundle-12156125 Visit our Shop for more high quality English resources and to download free samples of all of our schemes of work, including our extensive collection of Shakespeare resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing

Pupils need to talk and write about many aspects of the texts they use. To do this well they need to be familiar with the major technical terms. B & D Publishing’s two Language for Literature schemes of work spanning key stages 3 and 4 aim to give pupils a sound understanding of many literary terms. These are explained and illustrated by examples. Work is provided for pupils to do on each topic. The pack can also be used by pupils for revision and home learning. The literary terms covered include Acrostics, Alliteration, Anecdote, Clerihew, Epic, Imagery, Simile, Metaphor, Myth, The Ballad, Fable, Assonance, Autobiography, Cinquain, Cliché, Elegy, Haiku, Ambiguity, Rhyme, Rhythm, Kenning, Legend, Ode, Parable, Parody, Personification, Sonnet, Limerick, Soliloquy, Pun, Spoonerisms, Dialect, Dialogue, Epitaph, Onomatopoeia, Proof Reading, Proverbs, Riddles, Anachronism, Allegory, Diaries and Journals, Dramatic Irony, Hyperbole and much more. Two packs are available - Language for Literature Series One and Language for Literature Series Two, with each scheme of work suitable for KS3 and KS4 students. Language for Literature Series Two is 51 pages and free sample pages are available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-series-two-scheme-of-work-sample-pages-11911642 Language for Literature Series One is 49 pages and is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-series-one-scheme-of-work-11911638 For even better value, Language for Literature and Poetry Bundles are also available (see bundle options below this listing). Also available: KS2 English Skills Revision https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-english-skills-bundle-12072596 See also our KS3 English Skills schemes of work: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-resource-pack-bundle-11860826 Also available is the Reading Record scheme. This pack of materials provides KS3 pupils with a structure for recording their reading progress, ideal for use in library lessons. Students are guided through three levels - BRONZE, SILVER and GOLD - with targets that must be reached and recorded within each level. Each level is rewarded with a certificate. The resource pack contains a wide variety of worksheets: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-record-scheme-of-work-for-library-lessons-12011584 See also the Working With Words series: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/working-with-words-series-1-4-scheme-of-work-bundle-11961274 Visit our Shop for more high quality English resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing The regular licence enables you to use this resource with your own students. Copy, edit and provide the material to those students you teach in any medium or format for the purpose of educating them and/or their private study/exam revision. The school licence allows you also to share this resource with colleagues at your school.

B and D Publishing’s Working With Words Series Four. There are four packs in the series, each containing 40 English lessons. The work in each pack has been varied to provide lesson content for a wide range of abilities. Heads of Department have found the series useful for providing last minute lesson material for non-specialist teachers covering for absent staff. Similarly the variety of differentiated lessons can meet the short-term needs of supply teachers. The worksheets are also suitable for home learning. Some of the resources provide useful revision work - particularly for perennial problems with words such as ‘their’ and ‘there’ and ‘was’ and ‘were’. A range of material in lighter vein is also included: crosswords, word games, wordsearches etc. Many teachers have found this material useful at the end of a project, as individual homework assignments, or for the end of term. Free sample pages from Working With Words Series Four are available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/working-with-words-series-four-scheme-of-work-sample-pages-11960204 Working With Words Series Four Contents Crossword (1) Mastermind One Mastermind Two What’s In A Name? Writing About Places Entertainment A Question of Emphasis The Weather SHOW OFF! Books & Writers Word Search Tall Stories Character Informal Letters Story Starters Adding a Suitable Adjective The World Of Work Was and Were Monsters Sentence Work Ceremonial Occasions & Special Events Adding a Suitable Adverb Pronouns The “IGHT” words Writing About Animals Literary Knowledge: William Shakespeare Antonyms and Synonyms Strange Inventions Writing About Holidays Advertising Adjectives and Nouns Crossword (2) Word Practice Literary Knowledge: William Wordsworth Stuff and Nonsense Literary Knowledge: Lewis Carroll The Best Word Question Marks Full Stops and Capital Letters Crossword (3) - One to Finish Crossword (4) - Rather More Difficult! Even More Difficult! Create Your Own Crossword Mastermind One & Two Answer Sheet Blank Wordsearch Grid Bundles are also available: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/working-with-words-series-1-4-scheme-of-work-bundle-11961274 Also available: KS2 English Skills Revision https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-english-skills-revision-series-one-resource-pack-11860719 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-english-skills-revision-series-two-resource-pack-11860734 See also our KS3 English Skills resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-resource-pack-bundle-11860826 Visit our Shop for more high quality English resources and to download free samples of all of our schemes of work, including our extensive collection of Shakespeare resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing If you like our resources please leave a review.

B and D Publishing’s The Tempest in Focus, a short, colourful introduction to the play for KS3. This resource pack contains 12 colourful A4 posters that can be printed and displayed in the classroom as a useful aid to memory. The pack can also be used by pupils for revision and home learning. Each of the accompanying worksheets provides enough work for a whole lesson or homework. There are 12 worksheets providing work for 12 lessons or homework and free sample pages are available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tempest-in-focus-poster-and-worksheet-pack-ks3-sample-pages-12024828 The resource pack would also make a useful, quick revision resource at key stage 4. But for an in-depth analysis of the play see our KS4 The Tempest scheme of work: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-the-tempest-scheme-of-work-11860628 Also available in B and D Publishing’s ‘In Focus’ series of classroom display materials: Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; Much Ado About Nothing; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Henry V; Richard III; Twelfth Night. Also available is the KS3 scheme of work Introducing Shakespeare. This useful resource introduces pupils to Shakespeare’s England and theatre with worksheets on Elizabeth I; Elizabethan clothes, homes, food, festivals and life; Shakespeare’s home and family etc. The pack includes a simple model of the Globe theatre for pupils to make: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-introducing-shakespeare-scheme-of-work-11889714 For a short, simple introduction to Shakespeare’s plays at key stage 3, B & D Publishing’s Starting Shakespeare series is also available for the following plays: Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; Twelfth Night; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Tempest; Henry V; Julius Caesar; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard III; The Merchant of Venice. Key Stage 4 Shakespeare packs are also available for the following plays: Othello; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; Much Ado About Nothing; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Twelfth Night; Henry V; Richard III KS4 Shakespeare resource packs contain scene by scene notes on all aspects of the play, story summaries and differentiated worksheets. Areas typically covered include: character, themes, imagery, language, cloze passages, revision questions, picture pages, written and oral assignments, quiz pages, commentaries etc. The workbooks can also be used by pupils for GCSE exam revision. See our Shop for more high quality English resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing If you like our resources please leave a review. The regular licence enables you to use this resource with your own students. Copy, edit and provide the material to those students you teach in any medium or format for the purpose of educating them and/or their private study/exam revision. The school licence allows you also to share this resource with colleagues at your school.