KS3 English Lesson Bundle: Language through Literature (suitable for remote/cover/normal lesson)

I am a Deputy Director of English at a Harris Academy. I have years of experience authoring schemes of work and lessons that are outstanding, fun, engaging and challenging. Most importantly, they promote a love of literacy and the subject.

These lessons are ready to teach.

They target teaching KS3 English skills: Language through Literature. These lessons teach from the top down but consider SEND.

Features of lessons:

• Standalone lessons using individual extracts (listed further down)
• Consistently clear structure to lessons with a Do Now, active reading tasks, tasks that lead and scaffold towards a structured ALT (applied learning time - main task)
• Stretch and challenge opportunities
• Support in the form of vocab breakdown downs, definitions, modeling and examples, suggested sentence starters, visual aids and prompts
• SEND friendly - cream and light blue background, dual coding (can be changed to standard black and white), 1.5 spacing and comic sans font
• Range of tasks that develop a range of English skills including comprehension and inference, language and structure analysis, creative writing and transactional writing
• Extracts have been colour coded to highlight sentence structures - acts as a clear visual guide for how writers use multiple sentence structures for purpose and effect. They can be changed to a standard black font.

These lessons are designed to be engaging and fun whilst developing core skills. My aim is to promote a love of literature whilst teaching language through literature, in-line with the KS3 curriculum. They are designed to be accessible in terms of virtual teaching and remote learning.

Extracts used:
The Hobbit
Heart of Darkness
An Ideal Family
Coraline
The Night Circus
Harry Potter
Northern Lights
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Poem: Tim Burton’s Vincent
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
The Da Vinci Code
Good Omens