An ideal booklet for a high-ability Year 8 or for Year 9. It seeks to target analytical skills through the study of a variety of extracts from across the Gothic genre. Would be great to challenge and stretch KS3 students.

A homework booklet with activities which looks to develop analytical and literacy skills. Extracts come from a range of dystopian novels. Ideal for students in KS3, especially Year 8 and Year 9. It can be used in and out of lessons. It also includes a homework choice menu at the end of the booklet.

A bundle pack of the two Crooks lessons from Of Mice and Men.

This Boy in the Tower SoW was created for a mixed ability virtual classroom. It can be adapted very easily to suit a classroom setting, replacing ‘Breakout Rooms’ with ‘table groups’. The mini-scheme of work includes 6 lessons, an assessment, tasks and videos. SoW works on KS3 English skills such as inference, analysis, analytical paragraphs and word and structural analysis. Some keywords have been provided in Arabic - though they can be easily removed or replaced. Reading assessment is included.

This is a mini-scheme of work teaching Morpurgo’s Beowulf. It is made up of five lessons for an extremely mixed ability class. It was specifically designed to teach online, but can be adapted to suit your setting (breakout rooms becomes table groups). Some keywords are also provided in Arabic, but these can be easily removed to suit your own students. Easily adaptable, targets KS3 English skills and also includes a couple of literacy tasks to support low ability learners. Skills such as analytical paragraphs using sentence starters, inferential and analytical skills are also developed. Reading assessment is included.

Lessons cover: -Sentence structure -Inference and quotations -Using evidence -Punctuation and sentence structure