KS3 English/Media Project: Magazines

Attached are some resources for students to use in groups in order to make a magazine. This would be perfect for year 7 and 8 since from this age students need to be encouraged to read a wide range of non fiction texts in preparation for GCSE and magazines are a good place to start. I would suggest that you provide piles of different types of magazines for them inspect and scrutinize such as ones based on music, fashion, teen girl, cars, football/sport and gaming.

Within their groups, students can assign roles and each student can plan and design their own page.

Since I can't share images of front covers or pages from real magazines, I have left boxes on some of these planning sheets blank so that students can stick their own in to demonstrate their decision making. I have made these resources into PDFs so that the text boxes don't shift.

The resources attached include:

- Magazine Planning Sheet (a sheet to record their group's initial decisions)
- Front Cover Analysis Sheets (provides space to stick examples and thinking prompts)
- A suggested questionnaire for students to distribute or an exemplar which students can build on
- Design a Contents Page - a planning resource
- Design a Front Cover - a planning resource
- Design a Letters or Problem Page - a planning resource
- Design a Product Review - a planning resource
- Page Templates - boxed sections to place text and images
- Planning an Advert - a planning resource
- Spellings - suggested spelling lists which can be adapted
- Write a Feature Article - a planning resource.