Designed to support struggling readers aged 11-14 whose reading attainment has fallen behind their expected level, Fix it reading is a KS3 literacy intervention programme based on practical, evidence-based reading comprehension strategies. Fix it reading supports struggling readers, by building their confidence and enjoyment in reading. The Fix it reading teacher handbook, for experienced English teachers, non-subject specialists, literacy coordinators and TAs, will take you step-by-step through the 12-week programme, with detailed lesson plans and practical CPD guidance on how and why these reading comprehension strategies work for literacy intervention. The Fix it reading student workbook provides everything students need to catch up, including engaging texts to read, classroom activities and worksheets. It’s been designed to support Pupil Premium students, as well as students whose progress in reading has been negatively affected by Covid-19 school closures. It also supports learners whose reading age doesn’t correspond to their chronological age, and younger learners who have transitioned from primary school but are not at the expected level for their reading. The lessons are devised for 1:1, small group and whole group intervention sessions or as a complementary resource in English classes. Key features of this reading intervention programme: The 60-page teacher’s handbook includes 12 detailed lesson plans, starter and plenary ideas, homework tasks and evidence-based teaching notes and CPD guidance. The accompanying 69-page student workbook builds learners’ reading and literacy skills and includes carefully selected texts to engage struggling readers. It also includes worksheets and activities to develop their independent reading skills and reading fluency, and word reading and decoding strategies to develop their vocabulary skills. Includes fiction and non-fiction texts on a range of engaging themes, with extracts from accessible young adult novels chosen to appeal to key stage 3 learners like City of Ghosts, Home Ground, and The Hound of the Baskervilles. It also includes graphic novels, news articles, websites, and fact sheets to anticipate some of the text forms and genres of writing English students will encounter at GCSE. Complements our popular KS3 writing intervention programme, Fix it writing, which develops students’ writing skills and provides targeted learning support for students.

Reading SATs practice for KS2 will ensure your class is well-prepared for the English reading papers in their key stage 2 reading SATs at the end of primary school. This pack of SATs papers aims to practice reading comprehension skills through a range of fiction and non-fiction texts and poems and 10 practice papers differentiated at three levels. Based on past papers and perfect for SATs revision, the reading assessments can be used as practice tests in class or for home learning. This pack of SATs practice papers is the perfect revision tool for the KS2 reading tests. What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) 10 text extracts and 10 English SATs practice question papers (page 5) Each practice paper contains: English National Curriculum aligned content domain coverage Text extract SATs questions (differentiated as sets A, B and C) Marking scheme and answers (sets A, B and C) Featured texts: The Explorer – Katherine Rundell Wonder – R J Palacio Matilda – Roald Dahl Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer Goodnight stories for Rebel Girls – Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo Who Was Marie Curie? – Megan Stine Who Was Anne Frank? – Ann Abramson The Short and Bloody History of Highway Men – John Farman Throwing a Tree – Thomas Hardy The Sailor’s Consolation – William Pitt

Diversify your KS3 English curriculum with 12 lessons on 6 brilliant short stories, from wonderful writers including Alex Wheatle, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Koomson, Bali Rai, Jeffrey Boakye and Kit de Waal. Our KS3 short stories teaching pack celebrates the work of Black and Asian writers and the short story as a unique form of literature. Introduce your students to a range of exciting literary voices they may not have encountered before with an engaging and inclusive scheme of learning, plus lesson plans and classroom resources. Engaging and accessible for year 7, 8 and 9 readers, these powerful short stories have been specifically chosen to encourage more reading for pleasure and to be more representative and inclusive. About the selected stories and authors All the selected stories are written by Black British and British Asian authors, with the exception of the celebrated Black American short story writer, Langston Hughes, whose unforgettable 20th-century story, ‘Thank you, Ma’am’, also features in this anthology. The other five stories are contemporary, 21st-century stories and include new writers such as Jeffrey Boakye. The settings range from New York in the 1950s to a science-fiction future world. Some of the stories have more familiar family or teenage contexts, but all share a focus on relationships and explore themes of race, identity and belonging, love and loss, and redemption. The collection is divided into three groups for thematic teaching, allowing teachers to dip into the teaching pack to complement an existing scheme of learning, or to teach the stories as a complete short story anthology. What’s included in the teaching pack? Written by two experienced English teachers, the teaching pack includes a detailed scheme of learning with lesson plans, teaching notes, differentiation suggestions and homework activities, as well as printable classroom resources. The 109-page photocopiable teaching pack is student-facing for use in the classroom, and is accompanied by 12 PPT lessons for classroom delivery, and 6 complete short stories for reading in class. Each lesson includes: Do now activity Starter activity 3-4 main lesson activities Plenary Extension or homework tasks Many of the activities are carefully scaffolded, with differentiated, ladder up support and sentence starters for writing tasks, as well as a range of stretch and challenge suggestions for early finishers and higher-attaining students. The pack includes a lovely range of fun and creative tasks, as well as a focus on developing learners’ reading comprehension and analytical writing skills. It also includes drama activities and engaging speaking and listening tasks to encourage lots of animated, on-topic classroom talk. There’s also a list of diverse reading recommendations so teacher can encourage more reading for pleasure, and a word bank to help with disciplinary literacy and vocabulary development.

What’s included? KS3/4 Mastering spelling punctuation and grammar is a comprehensive SPaG pack containing resources, worksheets and activities designed to help students master the essentials of SPaG and get them GCSE-ready. Mastering spelling, punctuation and grammar contains: curriculum mapping and guidance for teachers along with further reading and/or useful links and references over 150 pages of worksheets, resources and activities spelling strategies, punctuation rules and grammar games to make the learning stick graphic organisers and A4 posters – perfect for consolidation and/or student revision formative assessments (including self and peer assessments) summative assessments (and suggested answers) to help teachers/students identify future learning targets. As your ‘go-to’ SPaG pack, this will support you and your students from the start of KS3 up to GCSE. Mastering spelling, punctuation and grammar covers the following: Spelling spelling strategies and games the golden rules of spelling a spelling toolkit of approaches visualising spellings and connecting meaning approaches to recalling spellings spelling lists – KS3 and KS4 Punctuation punctuation recall (including A4 punctuation mark posters) an exploration of what punctuation is (and its future) full stops commas colons and semicolons punctuating clauses Grammar using and controlling simple, compound and complex sentences statements, questions and imperatives the active and passive voice pronouns words that multi-task: verbs, nouns and adjectives prepositions and conjunctions adjectives and adverbs nouns and determiners

Structured intervention support to improve students’ writing Fix it writing has been designed to support English teachers, non-specialist teachers and teaching assistants in identifying and ‘fixing’ problems in students’ writing. It’s ideal for targeted support and intervention sessions at KS2 and KS3. The photocopiable, downloadable teacher handbook provides a structured sequence of 26 teaching sessions and resources, with detailed guidance on how to deliver these sessions to develop students’ core skills. It includes chapters on: writing and punctuating sentences; planning, organising and linking ideas and paragraphs and choosing effective words. The photocopiable student workbook includes all the classroom activities and resources to accompany the teacher handbook, enabling students to improve and build on their core writing skills. You may also be interested in Fix it reading, Teachit’s reading intervention programme for KS3 students. What’s inside the teacher handbook? Introduction (pages 4-25) Progression in writing: a framework Summary of the Fix it writing skill focuses Making sense of students’ writing Setting targets and planning sessions Fix it session structure Getting the most out of Fix it Chapter 1: Writing and punctuating sentences (pages 26-36) Session 1: Capital letters and full stops Session 2: Ending sentences Ways to improve Chapter 2: Using conjunctions (pages 37-49) Session 1: Varying conjunctions Session 2: To suit purpose Ways to improve Chapter 3: Using commas (pages 50-66) Session 1: Lists and clarity Session 2: Clarity and effect Ways to improve Chapter 4: Varying sentences (pages 67-82) Session 1: Sentence starts and word order Session 2: Varying for effect Ways to improve Chapter 5: Expanding sentences (pages 83-97) Session 1: Adding detail Session 2: Relative clauses Ways to improve Chapter 6: Using verbs (pages 98-108) Session 1: Identifying verbs Session 2: The past Ways to improve Chapter 7: Generating and sorting ideas (pages 109-120) Session 1: Non-fiction Session 2: Fiction Ways to improve Chapter 8: Sequencing and organising texts (pages 121-132) Session 1: Non-fiction Session 2: Fiction Ways to improve Chapter 9: Organising paragraphs (pages 133-144) Session 1: Topic sentences Session 2: Writing paragraphs Ways to improve Chapter 10: Cohesive devices (pages 145-157) Session 1: To suit purpose Session 2: Comparing and contrasting Ways to improve Chapter 11: Linking paragraphs (pages 158-171) Session 1: Adverbs and determiners Session 2: Making comparisons Ways to improve Chapter 12: Writing formally (pages 172-180) Session 1: Choosing the right words Session 2: Choosing the right tone Ways to improve Chapter 13: Choosing effective words (pages 181-190) Session 1: Setting and atmosphere Session 2: Creating atmosphere/characters Ways to improve

What’s included? KS3 Comprehension contains 6 self-contained text extracts with reading comprehension worksheet questions, accompanied by model answers. This pack is versatile enough to be used in class, or as a sequence of homework tasks, end-of-term/year assessments and cover lessons. KS3 Comprehension helps students complete the transition from primary to secondary level and provides an effective introduction to 19th century and early 20th century literature. The extracts are suitable for year 7 and year 8 reading comprehension lessons and can be used to supplement existing schemes of work. NB – this pack is an adapted version of Teachit Primary’s ‘Comprehension’ pack, containing newly commissioned KS3 curriculum questions, replacement texts and a selection of supporting resources. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-4) Extract 1 – Five Children and It by E. Nesbitt (Pages 5-10) Extract 2 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum (pages 11-17) Extract 3 – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (pages 18-23) Extract 4 – Odin’s Reward by Mary H. Foster and Mabel H. Cummings (pages 24-30) Extract 5 – The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (pages 31-38) Extract 6 – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (pages 39-45) Additional resources to support reading comprehension (page 46)

A set of 39 photocopiable home learning tasks mapped to NC objectives and differentiated where appropriate. Includes tasks for reading, writing composition and GPS. Answers included where relevant. All of your English year 6 homework all in one place!

Our templates packs have been designed to support your teaching in any subject at KS3, GCSE and KS5. These templates aim to support vocabulary development – encouraging students to engage in meaningful ways with words and narrowing the word gap. Many schools now recognise the importance of disciplinary literacy, and targeted vocabulary development and accelerated word learning can be an important strategy to improve literacy in every subject. These templates are designed to support the teaching of tier 2 and tier 3 vocabulary and offer a variety of approaches to helping students explore new vocabulary and have fun with words. Best embedded in the lesson as part of the development of a student’s specialist language, they also work well to support revision, independent study and homework. What’s included? 13 adaptable templates including a Frayer diagram, vocab wheel, a word frame and a knowledge organiser teaching ideas, games and displays. What’s inside? Introduction for teachers (pages 4-5) Frayer diagram template (pages 6-9) Vocab wheel template (pages 10-11) Hexagon template (pages 12-13) Word bunting template (pages 14-15) Word frames template (pages 16-18) Word bookmark template (pages 19-20) Word dice template (pages 21-22) Word jigsaw template (pages 23-24) Knowledge organiser template (pages 25-26) Vocab zones template (pages 26-29) Oyster template (pages 30-31) Shape linking template (pages 32-33) Vocab spinner template (pages 34-35)

Ensure your students are well prepared for AQA’s GCSE English Language Paper 2: Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives. Based on the themes of the sea, travel, money and the environment, AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 exam skills pack will give your students all the exam practice they need. What’s inside Targeted activities help students understand how to improve their responses to the questions eight non-fiction and literary non-fiction text extracts reading and writing sections for each theme exam tips on assessment objectives for each question exam-style questions and suggested answers. It includes analysis of assessment objectives to help students understand exactly what they need to do to gain marks, and targeted activities to improve their responses to each exam question. What’s included Teacher introduction (pages 4-5) Reading: Student introduction (pages 6-34) Source 1A: ‘How to stay safe at the beach’ by Karl West (2017) with activities Source 1B: ‘The Pleasures of Life’ by John Lubbock (1890) with activities Practice exam questions Writing: Student introduction (pages 35-49) Activities Practice exam question Reading: Student introduction (pages 50-72) Source 2A: ‘The Guardian view on over-tourism: an unhealthy appetite for travel’ (2018) with activities Source 2B: Francis Kilvert’s diary from the 1870s with activities Practice exam questions Writing: Student introduction (pages 74-88) Activities Practice exam question Reading: Student introduction (pages 89-110) Source 3A: A Girl Called Jack by Jack Monroe (2014) with activities Source 3B: Letter from George Dunlop (1813) with activities Practice exam questions Writing: Student introduction (pages 111-123) Activities Practice exam question Reading: Student introduction (pages 124-143) Source 4A: ‘Squids and octopuses thrive as “weeds of the sea” warm to hotter oceans’ by Alan Yuhas (2016) with activities Source 4B: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1839) with activities Practice exam questions Writing: Student introduction (pages 144-157) Activities Practice exam question

This Gothic scheme of learning will introduce KS3 students to the key elements of the Gothic genre, while building their reading, writing and comprehension skills. You’ll find extracts from some of the most celebrated Gothic novels to share with students in this engaging teaching pack, as well as Gothic poems and ghostly short stories from the 18th and 19th century to the present day, including The Castle of Otranto, Northanger Abbey, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Hound of the Baskervilles, ‘The Red Room’ and ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allan Poe. There is also an extract from the exciting new YA series, City of Ghosts, to celebrate contemporary gothic fiction and encourage more reading for pleasure. The key stage 3 lesson activities are designed to provide an overview of Gothic genre conventions, tropes, settings and character archetypes, and anticipate the key themes in Gothic literature to prepare students for GCSE English Literature prose texts. To develop students’ exam skills for GCSE English Language, the teaching pack also includes a range of comprehension tasks to build students’ unseen fiction and unseen poetry skills and their confidence with new texts and new vocabulary. There are also exciting stimulus ideas for creative writing tasks for students to develop their fiction writing skills and comparative tasks looking at two texts. The 94-page pack is student-facing and aimed at year 7-9 students, and includes a range of engaging teaching resources, worksheets and PPTs. There are differentiated activities, with stretch and challenge extension suggestions as well as more supportive ‘ladder up’ tasks, such as sentence starters and scaffolded resources. What’s included? There are 14 lessons and lesson plans for English teachers which include: Do now activities Starter activities Main activities with embedded formative assessment tasks, learning checks and reading comprehension questions Plenaries Homework tasks. Each lesson is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation, and the teaching pack also includes the lesson tasks and classroom worksheets along with answers for self or peer marking in class. Several lessons include a focus on writing analytically, using the PETER paragraphing framework. The teaching pack culminates in a GCSE-style summative assessment task, which will help you to assess students’ progress in reading and writing. There is also a detailed and comprehensive 15-page scheme of learning to integrate into your KS3 curriculum plans.

Take a step by step approach to building your students’ confidence in understanding and analysing unseen poems. ‘The way to understand poems, whether unseen or not, is to get under their skin – and that requires active strategies, which this teaching pack and resources provide.’ Trevor Millum, writer and poet This time-saving teaching pack includes seven pairs of carefully-selected poems for comparison alongside a resource workbook, providing you and your students with all you need to prepare for the unseen poetry element of the GCSE exam. What’s included? 7 pairs of poems a resource workbook for students to complete detailed teaching notes for each poem a mix of older and contemporary poems exam-style questions for all exam boards. What’s inside? Introduction Top tips for approaching an unseen poem Unit 1 ‘At the Draper’s’ by Thomas Hardy ‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti Comparison resource Exam questions Unit 2 ‘Late Love’ by Jackie Kay ‘Love and Friendship’ by Emily Brontë Comparison resource Exam questions Unit 3 ‘Finding the Keys’ by Robin Robertson ‘October’ by Robert Frost Comparison resource Exam questions Unit 4 ‘Calling Card’ by Tracey Herd ‘For Meg’ by Fleur Adcock Comparison resource Exam questions Unit 5 ‘A London Thoroughfare. 2am.’ by Amy Lowell ‘Frost Fair’ by Rowyda Amin Comparison resource Exam questions Unit 6 ‘Long Life’ by Elaine Feinstein ‘Fish oil, exercise and no wild parties’ by Beatrice Garland Comparison resource Exam questions

English homework activities for year 7 is designed to ensure you have all your homework activities for year 7 English in one place. Including differentiated tasks for reading, writing and SPaG, there’s a task for every week of the school year. Whether you use it as a homework workbook or dip in and out, it’s perfect for teachers, home tutors and teaching assistants of year 7 students. The pack is identical to the Home Learning for year 6 – English pack on Teachit Primary: it has been specially adapted for year 7 students to consolidate KS2 prior learning. What’s included 39 photocopiable tasks, differentiated where appropriate mapped to the NC objectives for year 5/6 answers where relevant teacher’s tick list to keep track of work set. What’s inside Teaching notes (page 4) Section 1 – student section Reading resources (pages 5-36) Comprehension resources Book review resources Poetry performance resources Different genres resources Figurative language resources Writing resources (pages 37-67) Resource – proofreading Resource – assessing a piece of writing Resource – describing characters Resource – describing settings Resource – the plot Resource – the big write Resource – a newspaper report Resource – persuasive writing Resource – formal or informal? Resource – a précis Resource – advice for year 6 Resource – your school report Spelling, punctuation and grammar resources (pages 68-100) Resource – prefixes and suffixes Resource – homophones Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus Resource – a conversation Resource – parenthesis Spelling resources Resource – passive verbs Resource – relative clauses Resource – lists Resource – modal verbs Resource – avoiding ambiguity Resource – the perfect tense Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses Section 2 – teacher section Teacher’s tick list (pages 101-103) Answers Reading (pages 104-110) Comprehension resources Figurative language resources Writing (pages 11-112) Proofreading resources Spelling, punctuation and grammar (pages 113-129) Resource – prefixes and suffixes Resource – homophones Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus Resource – parenthesis Spelling resources Resource – passive verbs Resource – relative clauses Resource – lists Resource – modal verbs Resource – avoiding ambiguity Resource – the perfect tense Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses

A KS3 pack designed to help students understand and identify persuasive techniques and apply them to their own writing. The pack is split into sections and features a range of practical and engaging activities aimed at familiarising students with persuasive writing, including: speeches, letters and leaflets, articles, argumentative writing, revision and exam preparation. What’s included? KS3 curriculum assessment objective map Lesson plans and ideas along with tailor-made resources. What’s inside? Each lesson plan contains detailed teaching notes with: Suggested starter activities Suggested main activities Suggested plenary activities Suggested additional creative activities Assessment Objective map (pages ii-v) Introduction - summary of the pack (page 1) Teaching notes and lesson plans (pages 2-14) Route through – part one: familiarising students with persuasive writing Route through – part two: speeches Route through – part three: letters and leaflets Route through – part four: articles Route through – part five: focusing on argumentative writing Route through – part six: revision and exam preparation Teaching resources and activities for persuasive and argumentative writing (pages 15-135) Persuasive role play Persuading your parents Can you sell a house? Flog that house! Planet perfect! Save my dog! Persuasive techniques bingo What’s your learning style? Winston Churchill speech excerpt Comparing persuasive speeches Cats are better than dogs England riots persuasive speech analysis Writing a speech Young people’s council meeting Rewriting for audience and purpose Analysing a leaflet Kick-start discussion slides Recipe for a formal letter Rat o’burger ‘Send a cow’ practice questions and answers Preparation of a leaflet Theme park persuasive writing leaflet Self-assessment review Writing to persuade checklist Fact or opinion Tabloid or broadsheet? Newspaper bias Lead articles Analysing an opinion article Writing a feature article Why use quotations? How to use quotations effectively Using a newspaper as a stimulus Editorial decisions Summarise that! Categorising connectives Hinges, bolts and sealers Effective introductions Building an argument Writing for different purposes The man on the wall story problem To argue or persuade Literacy placemat Speed dating revision Writing revision fan Top grade persuasion All fun and games revision Card template Domino template Fishing template Analysing persuasive texts Room 101

A versatile KS4 pack filled with teaching ideas and activities to help students at different stages of creative writing. The pack includes essential sections on sentences, the use of tenses and suggestions for tackling ‘problem’ areas of writing, from sense based writing to using pictures as prompts. Practical support to inspire your students. What’s included? KS4 curriculum assessment objective map lesson plans and ideas along with tailor-made resources. What’s inside? Introduction (page 1) Summary of pack Getting students started (page 2) Generating an idea for a story (page 3) Tenses (page 4) Narrative point of view (pages 4-5) Varying sentences (page 6) Improving vocabulary and descriptions (pages 7-8) Conflict (page 9) Beginnings (page 10) Plans and planning (page 10) Resources (pages 11-83) Law and order in Britannica Packing your bag Encounter with Gromitz’ spy Getting across to Tongwe Island Extract from Beast Quest – Krabb, Master of the Sea, by Adam Blade How to have TipTop paragraphing skills Diary Openings Dead Trial by Matthew Green An Active Imagination by Virginia E. Zimmer

If you’re teaching year 4, Spellings for year 4 does your spelling planning for you. The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The packs also include ideas for spelling games and useful templates. The pack has been designed to ensure all the planning and thinking is done for you - you can simply photocopy and go! What’s included? Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets Spelling templates and suggestions for games What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Term 1, week 1 — plurals with words that end in -y (revision) (pages 5-7) T1, wk 2 — adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (pages 8-12) T1, wk 3 — words beginning with mis- (pages 13-15) T1, wk 4 — adding -ly to words ending in -le (pages 16-18) T1, wk 5 — homophones (pages 19-22) T1, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 1 (Pages 23-25) T2, wk 1 — words containing g or -ge that sound like j (revision) (pages 26-28) T2, wk 2 — words ending in -eous (pages 29-33) T2, wk 3 — words ending in -sion (pages 34-36) T2, wk 4 — words beginning with sub-(pages 37-41) T2, wk 5 — homophones (pages 42-45) T2, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 2 (pages 46-48) T3, wk 1 — words beginning with wr- (revision) (pages 49-53) T3, wk 2 — words beginning with anti-(pages 54-57) T3, wk 3 — words ending in -ssion (pages 58-61) T3, wk 4 — words ending in -ous (pages 62-65) T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 66-69) T3, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 3 (pages 70-74) T4, wk 1 — adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words ending in consonant +y (pages 75-78) T4, wk 2 — words ending in -ious (pages 79-81) T4, wk 3 — words beginning with inter- (pages 82-85) T4, wk 4 — words ending in -gue or -que (pages 86-88) T4, wk 5 — words families (pages 89-92) T4, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 4 (pages 93-96) T5, wk 1 — adding suffixes to words ending in -e (revision) (pages 97-100) T5, wk 2 — words beginning with super- (pages 101-104) T5, wk 3 — words containing ch that sound like sh (pages 105-107) T5, wk 4 — words ending in -ly (pages 108-112) T5, wk 5 — homophones (pages 113-115) T5, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 5 (pages 116-119) T6, wk 1 — contractions (revision) (pages 120-123) T6, wk 2 — words ending in -cian/-sion (pages 124-126) T6, wk 3 — words beginning with auto- and aero- (pages 127-131) T6, wk 4 — mix and match reminders (pages 132-135) T6, wk 5 — word families (pages 136-139) T6, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 6 (pages 140-144) Spelling games (pages 145-147) Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 148) Word of the week template (page 149) You might also like Spelling for year 3 and Spelling for year 5.

Designed to develop year 8-9 students’ reading comprehension skills and their confidence approaching an unseen fiction text, Mastering comprehension will help upper KS3 students to make the transition to GCSE English Language study. This teaching pack includes eight literary fiction or prose texts from the 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century. The activities are designed for upper KS3 (years 8-9) or higher attaining KS3 students and should provide a helpful transition to the GCSE/IGCSE assessment focus on unseen literary fiction. You’ll find extracts from celebrated novels and short stories to appeal to younger students, as well as a range of genres, literary and narrative styles, including first- and third-person narration. What’s included? The teaching pack is student-facing for use in the classroom, and is designed to provide a series of comprehension practice activities for eight one-hour lessons: Each lesson includes: a choice of two pre-reading starter activities (focusing on context, prediction, vocabulary development, inference skills, oracy skills etc.) a set of three lesson activities to build students’ reading comprehension skills and strategies, and comprehension and inference questions and tasks: skimming, scanning, selecting, summarising and synthesising information analysing language, literary devices and structure evaluating the text critically writing analytically an extension writing task to anticipate some of the fiction and non-fiction writing tasks students will complete in their GCSE English Language exams a plenary or formative assessment activity. Each activity includes answers, where appropriate and there is also a summative assessment task, which includes exam-style questions, with suggested answers for self or peer marking, or to support teachers. The resource pack also includes a focus on vocabulary development by building students’ confidence approaching unfamiliar or challenging new words. The lessons can be used in sequence or as one-off English lessons, for cover activities or for independent homework tasks. The pack includes extracts from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Brick Lane by Monica Ali, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, The Happy-Go-Lucky-Morgans by Edward Thomas, ‘The Story-Teller’ by Saki, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and ‘Invisible Mass of the Back Row’ by Claudette Williams.

This six-week teaching pack addresses the 19th century text elements of the English Literature GCSE and provides students with a practical, accessible route-through the text – and plenty of exam practice to boot. Crammed, as always, with engaging activities and resources – including comprehension, language analysis and creative tasks – plus advice for differentiation and sample exam questions, the pack contains all you need to bring Stevenson’s novel to life. What’s included? assessment objective mapping lesson plans and ideas along with 52 tailor-made resources exam-style questions for all exam boards. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-9) Route through week 1: Pre-reading and introducing Chapter 1 (pages 10-36) Reactions to Victorian London Book cover predictions Gothic mini saga Ethical issues Introducing Mr Utterson Gothic literature – style and language Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – research topics Story of the door Victorian times Stretch and challenge Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Chapter summary table Route through week 2: Finishing Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (pages 37-60) Nightmares Design your own villain Introducing Mr Hyde Speak to the hand Questions on chapters one and two Mr Utterson’s reaction (Chapter 2) Villain cards Reputation, reputation, reputation Practice exam 1 Route through week 3: Chapters 3, 4 and 5 (pages 61-89) Carew colour coding An odd relationship Discussion questions Analysis of ‘Incident of the letter’ (Chapter 5) Bingo! (Chapters 1-3) The detective role? Silence, secrecy and style – developing themes in the novel Structuring analytical paragraphs Evaluating a PEE paragraph PEE Mobile Route through week 4: Chapters 6, 7 and 8 (pages 90-104) Door symbolism Chapter 7 – focused reading Dr Lanyon’s change Questions on chapters 6 and 7 Chapter 8 – true or false The self and society Route through week 5: Chapters 9, 10 and summarising (pages 105-123) Narrative diamond 9 Chapter 9 questions The duality of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 match up Questions that focus on the popularity of the story Evil Practice exam 2 Route through week 6: Revision activities (pages 124-129) The structure of the novel Who said what? Exploring structure The role of Mr Utterson The significance of place in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde RAG rating

Develop your GCSE students’ critical reading skills with our chapter-by-chapter look at this famous text. Character and close text analysis, research tasks, role play, quizzes and exam style questions combine to support your students’ understanding of the story of Napoleon, Snowball and their comrades. What’s included? 20 creative lessons Exam-style questions for AQA, Edexcel and OCR activities to develop students’ critical reading skills in preparation for the GCSE. What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Specification summaries (page 5) Chapter 1: Lesson 1 (pages 6-16) Resource - story checklist Resource - allegory / fairy tale Bingo Chapter 1: Lesson 2 (pages 17-27) Resource - character traits card sort Resource - sources of satire Resource - Karl Marx, Old Major match up Chapter 2: Lesson 3 (pages 28-34) Resource - cause and effect Resource - symbolism in Animal Farm Resource - Communist Manifesto matching activity Chapter 2: Lesson 4 (pages 35-40) Resource - getting to know the pigs Chapter 3: Lesson 5 (pages 41-45) Resource - putting in the work Resource - getting to know Boxer Chapter 3: Lesson 6 (pages 46-52) Resource - animals and literacy Resource - implied meanings Chapter 4: Lesson 7 (pages 53-55) Chapter 4: Lesson 8 (pages 56-59) Resource - what part do the animals play? Chapter 5: Lesson 9 (pages 60-63) Chapter 5: Lesson 10 (pages 64-68) Resource - Democracy or Dictatorship? Chapter 6: Lesson 11 (pages 69-74) Resource - persuasive techniques Resource - animals’ attitudes to work Chapter 6: Lesson 12 (pages 75-79) Resource - propaganda posters Chapter 7: Lesson 13 (pages 80-85) Resource - how to bury bad news Chapter 7: Lesson 14 (pages 86-90) Resource - Squealer’s sneaky tactics Chapter 8: Lesson 15 (pages 91-94) Resource - the cult of Napoleon Resource - manipulation of facts Chapter 8: Lesson 16 (pages 95-97) Chapter 9: Lesson 17 (pages 98-105) Chapter 9: Lesson 18 (pages 106-112) Resource - epitaphs and obituaries Chapter 10: Lesson 19 (pages 113-120) Resource - what happened to the animals? Resource - coming full circle Resource - Animal Farm map Resource - word cloud Resource - coat of arms Chapter 10: Lesson 20 (pages 121-132) Resource - pig or human? Resource - familiar with the farm Resource - plotting the rise and fall Exam practice (pages 133-153) AQA style questions Edexcel style questions OCR styles questions

This six-week teaching pack is designed to develop KS3 students’ reading, writing and spoken English skills with a range of drama and performance activities and creative tasks. The pack focuses on key scenes and includes tasks based upon diaries, scripts, cartoons and set design to encourage close textual engagement. What’s included? An assessment objective map Lesson plans and ideas along with tailor-made resources. What’s inside? Introduction Summary of pack 1 Route through – week one (overview of the text) (pages 2-3) Route through – week two (Act 1, Scene 1) (pages 4-5) Route through – week three (Act 2, Scenes 1 and 2) (pages 6-7) Route through – week four (Act 3, Scenes 1 and 2) (pages 8-9) Route through – week five (Act 4, Scene 1 and Act 5, Scene 1) (pages 10-11) Route through – week six (essay writing and consolidation) (pages 12-13) Resources (pages 14-76) Works like a dream Storyboard template Sequencing the plot Character map How well do you know the play? Who’s who Story zoom Relationship tableaux News flash Lonely Hearts advert Egeus’ monologue Custody battle Presenting the fairies Two worlds Beauty is in the eye of the beholder A miscellany of activities Character question game Hermia’s monologue Role play character cards Paired quotations for matching and sequencing Directing a scene Connect 12 ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ Hexbusters Film trailer

Writing for different genres – SEND is a downloadable set of lesson plans that can be used to support students with special educational needs and disabilities at key stage 3. It has been adapted specifically for SEND students and reluctant writers, and is designed to work in targeted intervention sessions. It features seven comic strips as prompts to engage neurodiverse students, such as those with dyspraxia, dyslexia or ADD/ADHD. The images, alongside simplified definitions of key terms, vocabulary exercises, word banks and writing prompts will also help to support EAL learners (students who speak English as an additional language) and INA students (International New Arrivals). Seven genres of writing It includes lesson plans, teaching notes, exemplars, scaffolded writing templates and worksheets to help students to learn about the language, structure and form of seven different writing styles. By understanding the writing process, they will learn how to produce a range of text types, some of which might be new genres for students. The writing activities are based on themes to appeal to young adults, such as music, football, aliens and pets, and cover a range of different genres: a fictional diary a formal letter a playscript a fictional recount a list a poem a comic strip. Each lesson includes suggestions for starters, as well as a range of differentiated activities to develop students’ vocabulary and writing skills. Students will feel more confident developing their own writing style and writing in specific genres. They will also understand the differences between writing fiction and non-fiction texts. Key features: It is accompanied by a PowerPoint for use in class, which contains useful checklists of the language features and structure of each writing genre. Includes a lesson plan and teaching notes for each of the seven different writing genres. Includes seven original comic strips as writing prompts. Includes a PowerPoint with 22 slides of checklists and activities, summarising the language features and structures of each text type. Includes a range of carefully scaffolded activities to take students step-by-step through the process of writing for each particular genre, including vocab exercises and word banks, sentence starters and frames, and planning and writing templates. What’s included? There are 57 pages of classroom activities: ‘A Week’s Excuses’ – writing a diary ‘Something Odd Out There’ – writing a formal letter ‘Alien Arrival’ – writing a playscript ‘Jennifer Jones’ – writing a recount ‘Sad I Ams’ – writing a bulleted list ‘StereoHead’– writing poetry ‘The Dark Avenger’ – writing a comic strip