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.

Free sample pages for 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 The full key stage 3 English Skills Series One is 40 pages and is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-one-resource-pack-11860749. 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 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 key stage 4 scheme of work on An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley. The full 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. The full resource pack on the AQA, CCEA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC and Eduqas set text An Inspector Calls is 44 pages and can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-an-inspector-calls-scheme-of-work-11867314 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.

Free sample pages from B and D Publishing’s KS2 English Skills Revision Series One. KS2 English Skills Revision consists of two workpacks containing work on a variety of language topics designed to meet much of the criteria required for the KS2 National Curriculum Test Paper 1: English grammar, punctuation and spelling. Both packs are intended for revision and consolidation of these topics for pupils working at levels 3-5. KS2 English Skills Revision Series One is 50 pages plus answer pages and is available for download here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-english-skills-revision-series-one-resource-pack-11860719 The worksheets in these packs are also suitable for home learning. 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. KS2 English Skills Revision Series One contains worksheets on: • Capital letters and full stops • Singular and plural words • Question marks • Exclamation marks • Nouns: common, proper, collective and abstract • Compound words • Adjectives • Prefixes • Suffixes • Commands • Verbs and tense • Adverbs • Apostrophe: possession and missing letters • Commas • Prepositions • Word family • Word roots • Determiners • Pronouns • Verbs, nouns and adjectives • Direct Speech • Subject - verb agreement NOTE: In this approach to English grammar at KS2 we have followed closely the model of grammar adopted by the English National Curriculum. See also KS2 English Skills Revision Series Two: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-english-skills-revision-series-two-resource-pack-11860734 Also available is B & D Publishing’s KS2 English Reading and Responding, which provides exercises to help prepare pupils for the national curriculum English reading test. On the topic of The Sea, the scheme provides passages of factual writing, poetry and prose followed by questions on the texts to test pupils’ comprehension: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-english-reading-and-responding-12071620 For even better value a bundle is also available: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-english-skills-bundle-12072596 Also available are our KS3 English Skills schemes of work: 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.

Sample pages from B and D Publishing’s KS2 English Skills Revision Series Two. KS2 English Skills Revision consists of two workpacks containing work on a variety of language topics designed to meet much of the criteria required for the KS2 National Curriculum Test Paper 1: English grammar, punctuation and spelling. Both packs are intended for revision and consolidation of these topics for pupils working at levels 3-5. KS2 English Skills Revision Series Two is 50 pages plus answer pages and can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-english-skills-revision-series-two-resource-pack-11860734 The worksheets in these packs are also suitable for home learning. 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. KS2 English Skills Revision Series Two contains worksheets on: • Noun phrases • Clauses: co-ordinating conjunctions, subordination • Relative pronouns • Relative clauses • Verbs: present tense, past tense, progressive, present progressive, past progressive, present perfect • Modal verbs • Parenthesis - brackets • Parenthesis - dashes • Synonyms • Antonyms • Ellipsis • Subject, verb, object • Punctuation • Verbs, active and passive voice • Colon • Semicolon • Hyphenated words • Bullet points • Verb or noun • Nouns and adjectives • Words with more than one meaning • Adverbs • Adverbials • Fronted adverbials NOTE: In this approach to English grammar at KS2 we have followed closely the model of grammar adopted by the English National Curriculum. See also our KS2 English Skills Revision Series One: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-english-skills-revision-series-one-resource-pack-11860719 Also available is B & D Publishing’s KS2 English Reading and Responding, which provides exercises to help prepare pupils for the national curriculum English reading test. On the topic of The Sea, the scheme provides passages of factual writing, poetry and prose followed by questions on the texts to test pupils’ comprehension: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-english-reading-and-responding-12071620 For even better value a bundle is also available: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-english-skills-bundle-12072596 Also available are our KS3 English Skills schemes of work: 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.

Perfect for Christmas lessons, six free pages on A Christmas Carol taken from B & D Publishing’s Charles Dickens resource pack. More free sample pages from our Charles Dickens scheme of work can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/charles-dickens-author-pack-sample-pages-11986409 Also available is a full key stage 4 scheme of work on the AQA, Edexcel, WJEC and Eduqas set text A Christmas Carol in a pdf workbook: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-a-christmas-carol-scheme-of-work-11860740 Much of the work in the A Christmas Carol pdf workbook is also available as a PowerPoint Scheme of Work: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-powerpoint-scheme-of-work-12405645 For even better value you can purchase the PowerPoint slide packs as a bundle with the pdf workbook: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-scheme-of-work-bundle-12405646 See also our KS4 scheme of work on Great Expectations: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-great-expectations-scheme-of-work-12009292 See also our Oliver Twist scheme of work: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/oliver-twist-scheme-of-work-11978930 B & D Publishing’s key stage 4 schemes of work contain ample material for detailed study of the texts. Differentiated worksheets cover story, characters, themes, historical context and revision questions. 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 Macbeth slide pack covering The Witches. This series of lessons for teaching the play at GCSE covers all of the Weird Sisters’ appearances in Shakespeare’s play: Act 1 Scene 1, Act 1 Scene 3, Act 3 Scene 5 and Act 4 Scene 1. The slides include commentary on the text, historical context, differentiated work on character, themes and imagery, language notes and written and oral assignments. Also available: Act 1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-act-one-slide-pack-25-slides-11989628 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 Bundles are also available: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-powerpoint-lesson-bundle-12026188 Many of the exercises in the slide packs can be found in B and D Publishing’s full key stage 4 scheme of worksheets on the AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CCEA and Eduqas set text Macbeth. 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 slide packs 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 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 students 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 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 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 provided 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 the 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. The full Working With Words Series Four pack of 40 lessons is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/working-with-words-series-four-scheme-of-work-11960207 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 schemes of work: 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.

Free sample pages from B and D Publishing’s key stage 4 scheme of work on Animal Farm by George Orwell. The full pack includes notes on the text, differentiated worksheets, vocabulary, oral and written assignments, historical parallels, quick revision worksheets and cloze passages suitable for KS4 pupils. The worksheets are also suitable for revision and home learning. The full scheme of work on this AQA, CCEA, Edexcel and OCR GCSE set text is 44 pages and can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-animal-farm-scheme-of-work-11870505 Many of the materials in the pdf workbook are also available in our PowerPoint scheme of work: Part One: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/animal-farm-powerpoint-scheme-of-work-part-one-12486747 Part Two: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/animal-farm-powerpoint-scheme-of-work-part-two-12486749 For even better value you can purchase the PowerPoint Scheme of Work in a bundle with the pdf workbook: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/animal-farm-scheme-of-work-and-powerpoint-bundle-12486755 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.

Sample pages from B and D Publishing’s Romeo and Juliet in Focus, a short, colourful introduction to the play for KS3. The full resource pack contains 10 A4 posters that can be printed and displayed in the classroom as a useful aid to memory. Each accompanying worksheet provides enough work for a whole lesson or homework. The pack can also be used by pupils for revision and home learning. There are 10 worksheets providing work for 10 lessons and the full pack is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-in-focus-poster-and-worksheet-pack-ks3-12024022 The pack would also make a useful, quick revision resource at key stage 4. But for an in-depth analysis see our full KS4 scheme of work: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-romeo-and-juliet-scheme-of-work-11860619 PowerPoints are also available. We also offer a full key stage 3 scheme of work. This resource is written in three sections: a shortened, simplified version of the play in Modern English; a matching shortened version in Shakespeare’s English; and worksheets on the play. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-introducing-romeo-and-juliet-scheme-of-work-11891511 Also available in our ‘In Focus’ series of classroom display materials: Macbeth; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; 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 (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/starting-romeo-and-juliet-ks3-scheme-of-work-12046038); Twelfth Night; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Tempest; Henry V; Julius Caesar; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard III; The Merchant of Venice. KS4 schemes of work are also available for: Othello; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Twelfth Night; Henry V; Richard III. The workbooks can also be used by pupils for home learning and 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.

Introduction to Shakespeare. Free sample pages from B and D Publishing’s KS3 scheme of work Introducing Shakespeare, an introduction to Shakespeare’s England and Theatre. There are worksheets on Elizabeth I, Elizabethan Clothes, Houses and Homes, Food, Life in Town and Country, Shakespeare’s Home and Family, Stratford-on-Avon, School, Games and Sport, Fairs and Festivals, Ships and Sailors, and Shakespeare’s London. The section on Shakespeare’s theatre includes worksheets on Plays and Pageants, Travelling Players, Elizabethan Theatres, Actors and Writers, Plays, Plague and Poems, Shakespeare’s Histories, Comedies, Tragedies, The Globe, The Stage, Stage Properties, Costume and Special Effects. The pack includes a simple model of the Globe theatre for pupils to make - an effective way of making the essential features of the Elizabethan stage clear to students. The pack is also suitable for home learning. The full pack is 40 pages and can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-introducing-shakespeare-scheme-of-work-11889714 We also offer a KS4 Shakespeare pack, providing an introduction to the author and his works, 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 Also available are Introducing A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Introducing Romeo and Juliet. These KS3 teaching resources are written in three sections: a shortened, simplified version of the play in Modern English; a matching shortened version in Shakespeare’s English; and worksheets on the play: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-introducing-a-midsummer-night-s-dream-scheme-of-work-11895881 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-introducing-romeo-and-juliet-scheme-of-work-11891511 We also offer the Starting Shakespeare series, simple introductions to the plays for KS3, available for: 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 our ‘In Focus’ series of KS3 classroom display materials and worksheets 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. KS4 schemes of work are also available for: 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; Richard III. KS4 Shakespeare resource packs contain scene by scene notes on all aspects of the play, story summaries and differentiated worksheets. 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.

Free sample pages from B and D Publishing’s Much Ado About Nothing in Focus, a short, colourful introduction to the play for KS3. The full resource pack contains 12 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 the full pack is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/much-ado-about-nothing-in-focus-poster-and-worksheet-pack-ks3-12029793 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 Much Ado About Nothing scheme of work: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-much-ado-about-nothing-scheme-of-work-11876415 Also available in B and D Publishing’s ‘In Focus’ series of classroom display materials: Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; 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; The Tempest; 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 home learning and 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.

Free sample pages from B and D Publishing’s KS4 scheme of work on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The full GCSE resource pack contains ample material for detailed study of the text. Differentiated worksheets cover story, characters, themes, narrative structure, language ideas, picture pages and revision questions. The worksheets are also suitable for home learning and revision. The full key stage 4 scheme of work on the AQA, Edexcel, WJEC and Eduqas set text is 63 pages and can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-a-christmas-carol-resource-pack-11860740 Much of the work in this pdf workbook is also available as a PowerPoint Scheme of Work: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-powerpoint-scheme-of-work-12405645 For even better value you can purchase the PowerPoint slide packs as a bundle with the pdf workbook: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-scheme-of-work-bundle-12405646 See also B & D Publishing’s resource pack on Charles Dickens, a useful introduction to the work of the author: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/charles-dickens-author-pack-11986419 Also available is a full key stage 4 scheme of work on the AQA, Edexcel and OCR set text Great Expectations: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-great-expectations-scheme-of-work-12009292 See also our Oliver Twist scheme of work: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/oliver-twist-scheme-of-work-11978930 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.

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, ideal for studying poetry. 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 the full scheme of work is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-series-two-scheme-of-work-11911644 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.

Free sample pages from B and D Publishing’s KS4 Macbeth full scheme of work. The full pack is 60 pages and is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-scheme-of-work-11860607 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 suitably rigorous to provide a good starting point for A-level study. PowerPoint versions of many of the activities from this scheme of work are also available. This series of lessons covers all of the scenes in the AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CCEA and Eduqas set text. The slides include commentary on the text, examination of key soliloquies, language notes and differentiated work on character, themes and imagery. These can be purchased in a bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-powerpoint-lesson-bundle-12026188 For even better value, the slide packs can 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 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 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. For KS3 pupils see Starting Macbeth and Macbeth in Focus. Starting Macbeth 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 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 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.

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 KS3 scheme of work on Buddy by Nigel Hinton. 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. Although it is now some years since Buddy was written, the problems Buddy faces growing up have not changed. The book always strikes a chord with teenagers. The characters are interesting and the storyline is dramatic. Our Buddy resource pack contains over 40 pages of worksheets covering story, characters, themes and ideas. The full scheme of work can be downloaded here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/buddy-scheme-of-work-12177266 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 from Working With Words Series Three. 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 range of abilities. Heads of Department have found the series extremely 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. Some of the resources provide useful revision, 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, word-searches etc. Teachers have found this material useful at the end of a project, as homework assignments, or as something different at the end of term. The full Series Three pack of 40 lessons is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/working-with-words-series-three-scheme-of-work-11943807 Working With Words Series Three Contents Speech Marks Crossword (1) Here, There and Everywhere Mastermind (1) - Quiz Using Adverbs Apostrophe Making Description More Interesting Collective Nouns Bird, Beast, Flower. Word game Anagrams Jumbled Quotes Shakespeare Wordsearch Adjectives Pets and Animals Mirabile Dictu. Phrases from Latin and French Decapitation and Word Chains Rhyme Time Found Poetry Collage Poetry Mastermind (2) Have you ever heard of such a thing? Use of HAVE and OF Something to write about - ideas for composition Vocabulary Work Word Building Bullets and Common Expressions Sort Out The Mess - jumbled sentences Picture Starters Words that end in -ful Who Was It? Stuff & Nonsense - confused sentences Crossword (2) Words with more than one meaning Writing about famous people Capital letters Heads & Tails Full stops and capital letters Licence Plates and making Connections Vocabulary Work Surrealistic sentences The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield. Comprehension 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. 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 See our Shop for more high quality English resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/BandDPublishing

B and D Publishing’s KS4 Macbeth full scheme of work. This pack is 60 pages and a set of sample pages is available for free download here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-resource-pack-sample-pages-11860541 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 suitably rigorous to provide a good starting point for A-level study. PowerPoint versions of many of the activities from this scheme of work are also available. This series of lessons covers all of the scenes in the AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CCEA and Eduqas set text. The slides include commentary on the text, examination of key soliloquies, language notes and differentiated work on character, themes and imagery. These can be purchased in a bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks4-macbeth-powerpoint-lesson-bundle-12026188 For even better value, the slide packs can 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 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 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. For KS3 pupils see Starting Macbeth and Macbeth in Focus. Starting Macbeth 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 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 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 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.