B and D Publishing’s Scheme of Work on Holes by Louis Sachar, suitable for key stage 3 pupils. Holes is a lively and entertaining read. It tells the story of an unlucky teenage boy named Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention centre in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft. The plot explores the history of the area and how the actions of several characters in the past have affected Stanley’s life in the present. These interconnecting stories touch on themes including racism, homelessness, and illiteracy. This pdf workpack is 44 pages and includes commentary and questions on the novel, work on characters and themes and oral and written assignments. The workbook can also be used by pupils for revision, homework and home learning. Free sample pages can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/holes-scheme-of-work-sample-pack-12460501 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 or would like to provide feedback 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.

B and D Publishing’s Twelfth Night Act 1 slide pack. This series of lessons covers all of the scenes in Act 1, with commentary on the text, language notes and differentiated work on character, themes and imagery. Also available: Act 2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/twelfth-night-scheme-of-work-act-2-12481223 Act 3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/twelfth-night-scheme-of-work-act-3-12481235 Act 4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/twelfth-night-scheme-of-work-act-4-12481240 Act 5: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/twelfth-night-scheme-of-work-act-5-12481245 Save by purchasing the bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/twelfth-night-powerpoint-scheme-of-work-12481285 Many of the exercises in the PowerPoint packs can also be found in our full key stage 4 scheme of worksheets on the Edexcel set text. This pack consists of 52 pdf pages and sample pages are available for free download here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/twelfth-night-scheme-of-work-sample-pages-11880359 For even better value, the slides can also be purchased as a bundle with the full scheme of worksheets: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/twelfth-night-powerpoint-and-pdf-scheme-of-work-bundle-12481294 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, written and oral assignments and quiz pages. The workbooks can also be used by pupils for home learning and GCSE exam revision. All our key stage 4 Shakespeare packs are suitably rigorous to provide a good starting point for A-level study. KS4 Shakespeare schemes of work are also available for the following plays: Othello; Macbeth; The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; Julius Caesar; Much Ado About Nothing; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Henry V; Richard III. See also the KS3 full scheme of work, Starting Twelfth Night. This includes simple worksheets dealing with the main elements of the story. There are extracts from key scenes in Shakespeare’s English for pupils to read and act out in small groups and notes for the director to help students understand the situation and the feelings and motivations of the characters: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/starting-twelfth-night-ks3-scheme-of-work-12053004 Also available is the Twelfth Night ‘In Focus’ pack of classroom display materials and worksheets, perfect for KS3 pupils or as a quick revision resource for KS4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/twelfth-night-in-focus-10-lesson-poster-and-worksheet-pack-ks3-12039865 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 KS3 PowerPoint scheme of work on Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson covers the whole novel in six parts, corresponding with the six parts of the book. This resource pack covering Part One includes story summaries, notes on the text, language, historical context, writing and drawing topics, revision questions and work on topics including punctuating speech. Also available Part Two: The Sea Cook: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/treasure-island-part-two-powerpoint-lesson-pack-17-slides-12055031 Part Three: My Shore Adventure: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/treasure-island-part-three-powerpoint-lesson-pack-23-slides-12085631 Part Four: The Stockade: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/treasure-island-part-four-powerpoint-lesson-pack-12-slides-12088456 Part Five: My Sea Adventure: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/treasure-island-part-five-powerpoint-lesson-pack-15-slides-12120170 Part Six: Captain Silver: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/treasure-island-part-six-powerpoint-lesson-pack-20-slides-12153203 Save money by purchasing the bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/treasure-island-powerpoint-lesson-bundle-12153611 The work in this resource pack and more is also available as a full key stage 3 scheme of worksheets. The pdf resource pack includes story summaries, notes on the text, cloze passages, language, historical context, speaking and writing topics and quiz questions: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/treasure-island-scheme-of-work-11863296 For even better value, the slide packs can also be purchased as a bundle with the pack of pdf worksheets: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/treasure-island-scheme-of-work-and-powerpoint-bundle-12154638 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 or would like to provide feedback 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.

B and D Publishing’s Othello resource pack, a scheme of work for teaching the play at GCSE. Our popular series of materials for KS4 Shakespeare provide a whole scheme of work. This resource pack for the WJEC and Eduqas set text Othello is 66 pages. A set of sample pages is available for free download here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-othello-scheme-of-work-sample-pages-11862017 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, written and oral assignments and quiz pages. The workbooks can also be used by pupils for home learning and GCSE exam revision. All our KS4 Shakespeare packs are also suitably rigorous to provide a good starting point for A-level study. Key stage 4 Shakespeare schemes of work are also available for the following plays: The Tempest; Macbeth; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; Julius Caesar; Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night; Henry V; Richard III. See also our key stage 3 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 Also available is B & D Publishing’s ‘In Focus’ series of classroom display materials and worksheets for KS3 for the following plays: Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; Much Ado About Nothing; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Tempest ; Henry V; Twelfth Night; Richard III. For a short, simple introduction to Shakespeare’s works at KS3, we also offer the Starting Shakespeare series for the following plays: Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; Twelfth Night; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; The Merchant of Venice; Julius Caesar; Henry V; Richard III. Also available is the KS3 Introducing Shakespeare pack, covering Shakespeare’s England and theatre. It 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 We also offer a KS4 Shakespeare pack, with worksheets about the Bard’s life and times and examining extracts from a selection of his works: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-shakespeare-pack-scheme-of-work-12346647 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 key stage 4 scheme of work on An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley. The resource pack contains notes and questions on the text, differentiated worksheets, written and oral assignments and work on characters, vocabulary and historical context. This teaching resource can also be used by pupils for home learning and GCSE exam revision. This resource pack on the AQA, CCEA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC and Eduqas set text An Inspector Calls is 44 pages and free sample pages can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-an-inspector-calls-scheme-of-work-sample-pages-11867310 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. 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 or would like to provide feedback please leave a review.

B and D Publishing’s Starting Richard III Scheme of Work, a short, simple introduction to the play for KS3. Thirty simple worksheets deal with the main elements of the story. There are extracts from key scenes in Shakespeare’s English for pupils to read and act out in small groups, and notes for the director to help students understand the situation and the feelings and motivations of the characters. The pack can also be used by pupils for revision and home learning. This full scheme of work is 48 pages and free sample pages are available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/starting-richard-iii-ks3-scheme-of-work-sample-pages-12055444 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 Richard III scheme of work: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-richard-iii-scheme-of-work-11881960 Also available in the Starting Shakespeare series: Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; Twelfth Night; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; The Merchant of Venice; Julius Caesar; Henry V. Key stage 4 Shakespeare packs are also available for the following plays: Othello; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Henry V; Romeo and Juliet; Julius Caesar; The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth; Twelfth Night; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest. 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 home learning and GCSE exam revision. Also available is the key stage 3 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 Also available is B & D Publishing’s ‘In Focus’ series of classroom display materials and worksheets for KS3 for the following plays: Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; Much Ado About Nothing; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Tempest ; Henry V; Twelfth Night; Richard III (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/richard-iii-in-focus-10-lesson-poster-and-worksheet-pack-ks3-12038344). Visit our Shop for more high quality English resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing If you like our resources or would like to provide feedback please leave a review.

B and D Publishing’s Macbeth Act 1 slide pack. This series of lessons covers all of the scenes in Act 1, with commentary on the text, examination of key soliloquies, language notes and differentiated work on character, themes and imagery. Also included are pdf “Character Files” for pupils to fill out on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Also available: Act 2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-act-two-slide-pack-15-slides-11993767 Act 3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-act-three-slide-pack-16-slides-12009554 Act 4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-act-four-slide-pack-13-slides-12012985 Act 5: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-act-five-slide-pack-18-slides-12026078 Save by purchasing the bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-powerpoint-lesson-bundle-12026188 A slide pack focusing on the scenes in which The Witches appear is also available for free download: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-the-witches-slide-pack-17-slides-12009565 Many of the exercises in the PowerPoint packs can also be found in our full key stage 4 scheme of worksheets on the AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CCEA and Eduqas set text. This pack consists of 60 pdf pages and sample pages are available for free download here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-resource-pack-sample-pages-11860541 For even better value, the slides can also be purchased as a bundle with the full scheme of worksheets: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-scheme-of-work-and-powerpoint-bundle-12028223 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. Key stage 4 Shakespeare schemes of work are also available for the following plays: Othello; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; Julius Caesar; Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night; Henry V; Richard III. The workbooks can also be used by pupils for home learning and GCSE exam revision. Also available for KS3 are ‘Starting Macbeth’ and ‘Macbeth in Focus’. The Starting Macbeth scheme of work is a short, simple introduction to the play for KS3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/starting-macbeth-ks3-scheme-of-work-12044679. Macbeth in Focus features classroom display materials and accompanying worksheets, perfect as an introduction to the play for KS3 or as a quick revision resource for KS4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-in-focus-10-lesson-poster-and-worksheet-pack-ks3-12022474 See our Shop for more high quality English resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing If you like our resources or would like to provide feedback please leave a review.

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. English Skills Series One includes basic work at word and sentence level covering phonics, nouns, verbs, punctuation, plural endings etc. The pack is intended for revision and consolidation of these topics for pupils at Levels 3-4. The worksheets are also suitable for home learning. KS3 English Skills packs build on these basic skills at Levels 3-7 English Skills Series 2 Level 4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-two-resource-pack-11860759 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 One is 40 pages. A set of sample pages is available for free download here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-one-resource-pack-sample-pages-11860804 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 One Contents Common Nouns Proper Nouns 1 Vowels and Consonants Sounds 1 Proper Nouns 2 Word Order Stops and Starts Sounds 2 Questions Rhyming Speech Marks Making Sense Word Groups Verbs 1 Verbs 2 Verbs - past & present tense Verbs - past & present tense Adding ing Verbs - present progressive tense Compound Words Conjunctions Complete the Sentence Commas Antonyms Stops and Starts and Question Marks Synonyms Exclamation Marks Singular and Plural Punctuation Sounds 3 Plurals 2 Alphabetical Order Sounds 4 Wh… Adding ful Word Chains Word Games Hidden Words Wordsearch Crossword 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 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.

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 KS3 scheme of work on The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall. The resource pack includes notes on the text, worksheets and oral and written assignments suitable for key stage 3 pupils. The workbook can also be used by pupils for revision, homework and home learning. The Machine Gunners is a great little adventure story set in the North East of England during the Second World War. It follows the adventures of a group of school children who find a crashed German plane and take away the machine gun. The police realise that the machine gun has gone from the wreckage and are anxious to find it. Written by Robert Westall, who was himself a boy growing up on Tyneside during the war, the novel gives an interesting and realistic account of what it was like to live in Britain during those years. Our Machine Gunners resource pack contains 48 pages of worksheets covering story, characters, background information, themes and ideas. Free sample pages can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-machine-gunners-scheme-of-work-sample-pages-12224674 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. 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 scheme of work on The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The resource pack contains notes and questions on the text, differentiated worksheets, written and oral assignments and work on characters, vocabulary and revision questions. The workbook can also be used by pupils for revision, homework and home learning. The Crucible is an important play often studied at key stage 4. Written in 1953, it is a dramatised and partially fictionalised story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692. Miller saw in the Salem witch trials parallels with the trials of people accused of being communists in 1950s America. The themes explored in The Crucible, the nature of good and evil, the individual conscience and the abuse of power, are as relevant today as they were then. The scheme of work is 54 pages and free sample pages can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-crucible-scheme-of-work-sample-pages-12237810 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 or would like to provide feedback 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.

Free sample pages from B and D Publishing’s KS3 English Skills Series Three Resource Pack. The KS3 English Skills series consists of four workpacks containing work on a variety of 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 Levels 4-5. 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 2 Level 4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-two-resource-pack-11860759 English Skills Series 4 Level 5+: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-four-resource-pack-11860797 The full key stage 3 English Skills Series Three is 40 pages and is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-three-resource-pack-11860761 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 Three Contents Revision - Nouns Revision - Adjectives Revision - Determiners Verbs 1 Adverbs Sentences Verbs 2 - auxiliary verbs Prefixes Suffixes 1 Suffixes 2 Suffixes 3 Suffixes 4 Word - building Antonyms Synonyms Homonyms Homophones Polysemes Pronouns 1 Pronouns 2 Prepositions 1 Prepositions 2 Sentences and phrases Clauses 1 Clauses 2 Conjunctions 1 Conjunctions 2 Conjunctions 3 Clauses 3 Common errors - was and were Common errors - have and of Punctuation 1 Punctuation 2 Verbs 3 - present perfect tense Verbs 4 - past perfect tense Verbs 5 - modal verbs Common expressions Proverbs Words we need in - Science Words we need in - Maths 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 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 scheme of work on A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines. The resource pack includes notes on the text, worksheets, work on topics such as characterisation and punctuating speech and oral and written assignments. The pack is also suitable for home learning. The workbook can also be used by pupils for revision, homework and home learning. A Kestrel for a Knave is set in a coal-mining community in South Yorkshire in the 1960s. It tells the story of one day in the life of Billy Casper, a fifteen year old boy about to leave school. Billy’s life at home with an uncaring mother and bullying older brother is bleak. His experience of school is no brighter. The only bright spot in Billy’s life is his kestrel, Kes. Billy took the young bird from the nest and has trained her. He takes great delight in caring for and training Kes. But… Our Kes resource pack contains 48 pages of worksheets and free sample pages can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-kestral-for-a-knave-scheme-of-work-sample-pages-12226297 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. 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.

Free sample pages for B and D Publishing’s KS3 English Skills Series Two Resource Pack. The KS3 English Skills series consists of four workpacks containing work on a variety of 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 The full key stage 3 English Skills Series Two is 40 pages and is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-two-resource-pack-11860759 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 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.

Free sample pages from B and D Publishing’s scheme of work on A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines. The resource pack includes notes on the text, worksheets, work on topics such as characterisation and punctuating speech and oral and written assignments. The workbook can also be used by pupils for revision, homework and home learning. A Kestrel for a Knave is set in a coal-mining community in South Yorkshire in the 1960s. It tells the story of one day in the life of Billy Casper, a fifteen year old boy about to leave school. Billy’s life at home with an uncaring mother and bullying older brother is bleak. His experience of school is no brighter. The only bright spot in Billy’s life is his kestrel, Kes. Billy took the young bird from the nest and has trained her. He takes great delight in caring for and training Kes. But… Our Kes resource pack contains 48 pages of worksheets and can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-kestral-for-a-knave-scheme-of-work-12226293 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. 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 Starting Henry V Scheme of Work, a short, simple introduction to the play for KS3. Thirty simple worksheets deal with the main elements of the story. There are extracts from key scenes in Shakespeare’s English for pupils to read and act out in small groups, and notes for the director to help students understand the situation and the feelings and motivations of the characters. The pack can also be used by pupils for revision and home learning. This full scheme of work is 51 pages and free sample pages are available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/starting-henry-v-ks3-scheme-of-work-sample-pages-12053970 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 Henry V scheme of work: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-henry-v-scheme-of-work-11881137 Also available in the Starting Shakespeare series: Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; Twelfth Night; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; The Merchant of Venice; Julius Caesar; Richard III. KS4 Shakespeare packs are also available for the following plays: Othello; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Richard III; Romeo and Juliet; Julius Caesar; The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth; Twelfth Night; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest. 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. Also available is the key stage 3 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 Also available is B & D Publishing’s ‘In Focus’ series of classroom display materials and worksheets for KS3 for the following plays: Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; Much Ado About Nothing; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Tempest ; Henry V (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/henry-v-in-focus-10-lesson-poster-and-worksheet-pack-ks3-12035478); Twelfth Night; Richard III. 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.