Make sure your students are well prepared for AQA’s GCSE English Language Paper 1: Explorations in creative reading and writing. ‘This student-facing pack is designed to be both accessible and challenging. With top tips, AO breakdowns, detailed activities, exam-style questions and suggested answers, it forms a comprehensive student pack which is ideal for developing skills, pushing students, and providing structured, useful revision. It covers a range of stimulating texts and will help to build students’ confidence when dealing with unseen texts and prepare them for the rigour of the GCSE exam.’ Lyndsey Chand, writer Our exam skills pack is divided into sections for reading and writing and features four fiction extracts for analysis along with exam questions for each extract. The pack focuses on key skills and assessment objectives and includes pre-reading activities, matching activities, true/false activities, planning grids, vocabulary tasks, sequencing tasks, creative extension tasks, correction activities and more. Perfect for revision and preparation for the exam. Featured texts: Jamrach’s Menagerie – Carol Birch ‘The Singing Lesson’ – Katherine Mansfield The Lodger – Marie Belloc Lowndes The Hampdenshire Wonder – J.D. Beresford What’s included? four fiction text extracts reading and writing sections exam practice questions. What’s inside? Teacher introduction (pages 3-4) Section A: Reading (pages 5-6) Practise the exam skills: AO1 (first bullet point) (pages 7-25) Source 1: Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch Practise the exam skills: AO2 (language) (pages 25-53) Source 2: ‘The Singing Lesson’ by Katherine Mansfield Practise the exam skills: AO2 (structure) (pages 54-78) Source 3: The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes Practise the exam skills: AO4 (pages 79-102) Source 4: The Hampdenshire Wonder by J.D. Beresford Section B: Writing (pages 103-104) Practise the exam skills: AO5 (pages 105-120) Practise the exam skills: AO6 (pages 121-142)

Our Mastering multiplication pack is packed full of creative games and activities, engaging worksheets, mastery type word problems and essential assessments to get your children ready for the multiplication tables check (MTC) and to ensure they continue consolidating their skills through years 5 and 6. Key features: creative games, activities and engaging worksheets, including answers when appropriate a PowerPoint containing mental maths warm-ups linked to each multiplication table 24 assessment sheets to prepare your children for the multiplication tables check (MTC), including answers.

Recent research shows that one in seven children will begin secondary school as a struggling reader (Martell, 2018). This downloadable teaching pack aims to support upper KS2 children to practise and consolidate their reading skills in preparation for SATs and the transition to KS3. Based on practical, evidence-based reading comprehension strategies, Raising reading skills will develop children’s reading fluency, building their confidence in - and enjoyment of - reading. The Raising reading skills teacher handbook - for experienced teachers, non-subject specialists and TAs - will take you through the 12-week programme step-by-step, with detailed lesson plans and practical CPD guidance on how and why these reading comprehension strategies work. The Raising reading skills workbook provides children with everything they need, including a range of engaging texts, classroom activities and worksheets. Lessons are devised for 1:1, small group and whole group booster sessions or as a complementary resource for English lessons. (Please note that Raising reading skills is based upon the KS3 English intervention pack, Fix it reading, and contains some of the same content.) What’s included? The teacher’s handbook includes 12 detailed lesson plans, starter and plenary ideas, homework tasks and evidence-based teaching notes and CPD guidance. The accompanying workbook includes carefully selected texts to engage developing readers, as well as worksheets and activities. Includes fiction and non-fiction texts on a range of engaging themes, with extracts from accessible young adult novels like Home Ground and I, Coriander as well as graphic novels, news articles, websites, and fact sheets. What’s inside? Teacher’s Handbook An introduction to Raising reading skill (page 3) About the author and how to use the teacher handbook (page 4) Understanding a child’s reading level (page 5) What difficulties do struggling readers face at secondary school? (page 6) The learning experience for developing readers: advice for teachers (page 6) What does a confident reader look like? (page 7) Selecting appropriate texts to read (pages 7-8) Section 1: Practical reading comprehension strategies (pages 9-41) Section 2: Group reading strategies (pages 42-52) Teacher observations: Reading confidence and progress (page 53) Parental tips for supporting reading (page 55) Student Handbook Introduction (page 3) Reading survey (pages 3-5) Reading strategies (page 6) Skimming and scanning (pages 7-11) Predictions and questions (pages 12-16) Questions and signposts (pages 17-24) Inference (pages 25-29) Inference (pages 30-33) Summarising and note-taking (pages 34-38) Summarising and note-taking (pages 39-43) Word detectives (part 1) (pages 44-48) Word detectives (part 2) (Pages 49-53) Reciprocal reading (part 1) (pages 54-57) Reciprocal reading (part 2) (pages 58-63) Reciprocal reading (part 3) (pages 64-66)

Addressing the most challenging grammar topics introduced at KS2 and revisited at KS3, this pack is essential for teaching and consolidating grammar in years 5-8. The comprehensive teaching notes provide a valuable curriculum support for teachers, while the wide range of resources and activities ensures that students have high-quality opportunities to apply and extend their learning – including in cross-curricular contexts. Each topic also includes KS2 SAT style questions in preparation for the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling test (Paper 1) at the end of year 6. What’s included? The grammar topics are organised into three sections (teach, practise, apply), and each topic includes the following: Definitions and explanations for teachers PowerPoint presentations Student-friendly teaching resources Extended writing opportunities. The pack is organised in the following topics: Relative clauses Modal verbs and adverbs Adverbials Perfect forms of verbs Parenthesis Commas Passive verbs Subjunctive verb forms Colons and semi-colons What’s inside? Introduction (pages 4-6) Relative clauses (pages 7-33) Resource - people, places and things Resource - improve by adding a relative clause Resource - possessive relative clauses Resource - relative clauses of time and place (when and where) Resource - the unusual suspects Modal verbs and adverbs (pages 34-50) Resource - strengthening and weakening Resource - school rules Resource - be the detective Adverbial phrases (pages 51-71) Resource - identify adverbials Resource - painting a picture Resource - narrative Perfect forms (pages 72-95) Resource - find the perfect verb form Resource - perfect verb forms in texts Resource - time-travelling verbs Resource - perfect verb form timeline Resource - job application Resource - my day Resource - perfect form dice Resource - ‘of’ or ‘have’ Parenthesis (pages 96-115) Resource - using brackets to indicate parenthesis Resource - using commas to indicate parenthesis Resource - extending simple sentences using parenthesis Resource - nicknames as parenthesis Commas (pages 116-140) Resource - the Oxford comma Resource - add the comma Resource - combining sentences Resource - ambiguous meaning Passive verbs (pages 141-165) Resource - rainbow writing Resource - conversion Resource - food chains Resource - snakes and ladders Resource - don’t blame me! Subjunctive verb forms (pages 166-185) Resource - identify the infinitive Resource - subjunctive poem Resource - subjunctive sentences Resource - subjunctive speeches Colons and semi-colons (pages 186-199) Resource - spot the colons and semi-colons Resource - combining clauses Resource - using colons and semi-colons Resource - semi-colon poetry

Addressing the most challenging grammar topics introduced at KS2 and revisited at KS3, this pack is essential for teaching and consolidating grammar in years 5-8. The comprehensive teaching notes provide a valuable curriculum support for teachers, while the wide range of resources and activities ensures that students have high-quality opportunities to apply and extend their learning – including in cross-curricular contexts. Each topic also includes KS2 SAT style questions in preparation for the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling test (Paper 1) at the end of year 6. What’s included? The grammar topics are organised into three sections (teach, practise, apply), and each topic includes the following: definitions and explanations for teachers PowerPoint presentations student-friendly teaching resources extended writing opportunities. The pack is organised in the following topics: Relative clauses Modal verbs and adverbs Adverbials Perfect forms of verbs Parenthesis Commas Passive verbs Subjunctive verb forms Colons and semi-colons What’s inside? Introduction (pages 4-6) Relative clauses (pages 7-33) Resource - people, places and things Resource - improve by adding a relative clause Resource - possessive relative clauses Resource - relative clauses of time and place (when and where) Resource - the unusual suspects Modal verbs and adverbs (pages 34-50) Resource - strengthening and weakening Resource - school rules Resource - be the detective Adverbial phrases (pages 51-71) Resource - identify adverbials Resource - painting a picture Resource - narrative Perfect forms (pages 72-95) Resource - find the perfect verb form Resource - perfect verb forms in texts Resource - time-travelling verbs Resource - perfect verb form timeline Resource - job application Resource - my day Resource - perfect form dice Resource - ‘of’ or ‘have’ Parenthesis (pages 96-115) Resource - using brackets to indicate parenthesis Resource - using commas to indicate parenthesis Resource - extending simple sentences using parenthesis Resource - nicknames as parenthesis Commas (pages 116-140) Resource - the Oxford comma Resource - add the comma Resource - combining sentences Resource - ambiguous meaning Passive verbs (pages 141-165) Resource - rainbow writing Resource - conversion Resource - food chains Resource - snakes and ladders Resource - don’t blame me! Subjunctive verb forms (pages 166-185) Resource - identify the infinitive Resource - subjunctive poem Resource - subjunctive sentences Resource - subjunctive speeches Colons and semi-colons (pages 186-199) Resource - spot the colons and semi-colons Resource - combining clauses Resource - using colons and semi-colons Resource - semi-colon poetry

Help your students develop the maths skills they need for science GCSEs with 10 full-colour landscape and portrait posters. Each poster from this set of 10 features a different mathematical concept and asks a question to kick-start students’ thinking. The posters provide an engaging and thought-provoking visual reference for your students and will support you and your colleagues in your delivery of GCSEs.

Mastering grammar: verbs and tenses (German) is designed to teach and review the key verb forms and tenses required by the GCSE curriculum at both Foundation tier and Higher tier. It is suitable for use with key stage 3 and key stage 4 students across a wide range of abilities and is not specific to a particular exam board. The aim of the pack is to make the grammar appear logical and accessible by drawing students’ attention to patterns through fun, communicative activities that are informed by aspects of Gianfranco Conti’s EPI approach, including ‘mind reader’, ‘find someone who’ and ‘pyramid translation’. What’s included? The pack consists of nine units, one on each of the following tenses / verb forms: present tense perfect tense imperfect tense future tense conditional tense and imperfect subjunctive modal verbs word order, including negatives and questions reflexive verbs the imperative and man plus a review unit at the end. The units are not intended as schemes of work but rather as a bank of ideas from which you can pick one activity or a series of activities at a level appropriate for your class. The examples used cover a variety of topics so that the activities can be integrated into your teaching at any point in the course. The vocabulary has deliberately been kept very simple, enabling students to concentrate on understanding and practising the grammar. There is particular focus on negatives and questions as examiners’ reports indicate that candidates often struggle with these. Each unit includes: an explanatory PowerPoint awareness-raising activities (‘recognising the tense’) practice activities (ranging from receptive knowledge through structured production to freer practice) assessment tasks (receptive and productive knowledge) answers (for activities with ‘right/wrong’ answers). The PowerPoint teaches the grammar point explicitly, starting with a comparison of the English tense / verb form with the German one. If you have weaker students, you could show them the explanatory PowerPoint after the activities, or not at all. If you have more able students or prefer a more traditional approach, you could show them the PowerPoint explanation before starting the activities. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 4–9) Habits and routines: present tense (pages 10–22) Past actions and events: perfect tense (pages 23–35) Writing in the past: imperfect tense (pages 36–43) Future actions, events and situations: present and future tenses (pages 44–59) Imagined situations: conditional tense and imperfect subjunctive (pages 60–70) Rules and possibilities: modal verbs (pages 71–79) Word order: including negatives and questions (pages 80–96) Reflexive verbs: present and perfect tenses (pages 97–103) Orders and processes: the imperative and man (pages 104–107) Verbs and tenses review (pages 108–116)

Mastering grammar: verbs and tenses (Spanish) is designed to teach and review the key verb forms and tenses required by the GCSE curriculum at both Foundation tier and Higher tier. It is suitable for use with key stage 3 and key stage 4 students across a wide range of abilities and is not specific to a particular exam board. The aim of the pack is to make the grammar appear logical and accessible by drawing students’ attention to patterns through fun, communicative activities that are informed by aspects of Gianfranco Conti’s EPI approach, including ‘mind reader’, ‘find someone who’ and ‘pyramid translation’. What’s included? The pack consists of eight units, one on each of the following tenses / verb forms: present simple and present continuous tenses negatives and questions preterite and perfect tenses imperfect tense future tense conditional tense reflexive verbs modal verbs and the passive voice plus a review unit at the end. The units are not intended as schemes of work but rather as a bank of ideas from which you can pick one activity or a series of activities at a level appropriate for your class. The examples used cover a variety of topics so that the activities can be integrated into your teaching at any point in the course. The vocabulary has deliberately been kept very simple, enabling students to concentrate on understanding and practising the grammar. There is particular focus on negatives and questions as examiners’ reports indicate that candidates often struggle with these. Each unit includes: an explanatory PowerPoint awareness-raising activities (‘recognising the tense’) practice activities (ranging from receptive knowledge through structured production to freer practice) assessment tasks (receptive and productive knowledge) answers (for activities with ‘right/wrong’ answers). The PowerPoint teaches the grammar point explicitly, starting with a comparison of the English tense / verb form with the Spanish one. If you have weaker students, you could show them the explanatory PowerPoint after the activities, or not at all. If you have more able students or prefer a more traditional approach, you could show them the PowerPoint explanation before starting the activities. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 4–10) Present tenses (pages 11–24) Negatives and questions (pages 25–37) Preterite and perfect tenses (pages 38–54) Imperfect tense (pages 55–66) Future tense (pages 67–83) Conditional tense (pages 84–95) Reflexive verbs (pages 96–102) Modal verbs and the passive voice (pages 103–113) Verb and tense review (pages 114–122)

Designed for the GCSE German specifications for AQA, Edexcel and WJEC Eduqas, this pack will help students to prepare for their speaking exam. The pack includes activities for the role-play, photo card and general conversation elements of the exam, along with revision materials. Covering all three themes for GCSE German speaking, the pack also provides differentiated material for Foundation and Higher tiers, teaching notes and answers. What’s included? worksheets and vocabulary support pair work speaking activities and games help with how to revise for GCSE German speaking model answers to use and adapt exam-style tasks. What’s inside? Section one: Role-plays (pages 4-34) Teaching notes Soziale Netzwerke und Technologie Musik Sport Wo ich wohne Im Restaurant Gesundheit Ferien Studium und Arbeit Answers Section two: Photo cards (pages 35-75) Teaching notes Freunde und Familie Ehe und Zusammenleben Soziale Netzwerke und Technologie Traditionen und Feste Hilfsorganisationen und Freiwilligenarbeit Umweltprobleme Armut und Obdachlosigkeit Arbeit und Berufswahl Answers Section three: General conversation (pages 76-101) Teaching notes Asking questions Key ingredients Practice questions Answers Section four: Revision (pages 102-112) Teaching notes Mind-map template Word sort Inference grids Pass the parcel speaking Answers

Designed for AQA’s German GCSE but also suited to support specifications from Edexcel and Eduqas, this pack will equip students with the language and skills they need to tackle their writing exam. Success at writing offers targeted and differentiated revision for all attainment levels, from grades 9-1. Students can pick and choose the question type they most need to work on and make real progress in a short space of time. The pack includes activities for each of the question types in the writing exam for Foundation and Higher tiers and features top tips to help students maximise their marks. What’s included activities for each of the question types for Foundation and Higher tiers, including describing a photo, the 40, 90 and 150 word tasks and translation revision of key language, pair work and peer assessment as well as exam practice top tips to ensure success. What’s inside Introduction (page 4) Teaching notes (pages 5-6) Foundation tier Describing a photo (Foundation question 1) (pages 7-24) 40 word task (Foundation question 2) (pages 25-44) Translation sentences (Foundation question 3) (pages 45-61) Foundation and Higher tiers 90 word task (Foundation question 4 and Higher question 1) (pages 62-82) Higher tier 150 word task (Higher question 2) (pages 83-105) Translation passage (Higher question 3) (pages 106-117)

Designed for the GCSE French specifications for AQA, Edexcel and WJEC Eduqas, this pack will help students to prepare for their speaking exam. The pack includes activities for the role-play, photo card and general conversation elements of the exam, along with revision materials. Covering all three GCSE French speaking themes, the pack also provides differentiated material for Foundation and Higher tiers, teaching notes and answers. What’s included? worksheets and vocabulary support pair work speaking activities and games model answers to use and adapt exam-style tasks perfect for GCSE French speaking revision. What’s inside? Section one: Role-plays (pages 4-34) Teaching notes Les réseaux sociaux et la technologie La musique Le sport Là où j’habite Au restaurant La santé Les vacances Les études et le travail Answers Section two: Photo cards (pages 35-75) Teaching notes Les amis et la famille Le mariage et la vie en couple Les réseaux sociaux et la technologie Les traditions et les célébrations Les œuvres caritatives et le bénévolat Les problèmes environnementaux La pauvreté et les sans-abris Le travail et les choix de carrière Answers Section three: General conversation (pages 76-101) Teaching notes Asking questions Key ingredients Practice questions Answers Section four: Revision (pages 102-112) Teaching notes Mind-map template Word sort Inference grids Pass the parcel speaking Answers

Mastering grammar: verbs and tenses (French) is designed to teach and review the key verb forms and tenses required by the GCSE curriculum at both Foundation tier and Higher tier. It is suitable for use with key stage 3 and key stage 4 students across a wide range of abilities and is not specific to a particular exam board. The aim of the pack is to make the grammar appear logical and accessible by drawing students’ attention to patterns through fun, communicative activities that are informed by aspects of Gianfranco Conti’s EPI approach, including ‘mind reader’, ‘find someone who’ and ‘pyramid translation’. What’s included? The pack consists of eight units, one on each of the following tenses / verb forms: present tense negatives and questions perfect tense imperfect tense future tenses conditional tense reflexive verbs modal verbs and the passive voice plus a review unit at the end. The units are not intended as schemes of work but rather as a bank of ideas from which you can pick one activity or a series of activities at a level appropriate for your class. The examples used cover a variety of topics so that the activities can be integrated into your teaching at any point in the course. The vocabulary has deliberately been kept very simple, enabling students to concentrate on understanding and practising the grammar. There is particular focus on negatives and questions as examiners’ reports indicate that candidates often struggle with these. Each unit includes: an explanatory PowerPoint 3–5 awareness-raising activities (‘recognising the tense’) 3–5 practice activities (ranging from receptive knowledge through structured production to freer practice) 3–5 assessment tasks (receptive and productive knowledge) answers (for activities with ‘right/wrong’ answers). The PowerPoint teaches the grammar point explicitly, starting with a comparison of the English tense / verb form with the French one. If you have weaker students, you could show them the explanatory PowerPoint after the activities, or not at all. If you have more able students or prefer a more traditional approach, you could show them the PowerPoint explanation before starting the activities. Browse all our GCSE French verbs and tenses resources. See our other GCSE teaching packs, on vocabulary, translation, speaking and writing. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 4-9) Habits and routines: present tense (pages 10-23) Negatives and questions: present tense (pages 24-36) Past actions and events: perfect tense (pages 37-51) Past habits and situations: imperfect tense (pages 52-63) Future actions, events and situations: future tenses (pages 64-79) Imagined situations: conditional tense (pages 80-92) Reflexive verbs: present and perfect tenses (pages 93-102) Rules, possibilities and processes: modal verbs and the passive voice (pages 103-112) Verb and tense review (pages 113-122)

Designed for the GCSE Spanish specifications for AQA, Edexcel and WJEC Eduqas, this pack will help students to prepare for their speaking exam. The pack includes activities for the role-play, photo card and general conversation elements of the exam, along with revision materials. Covering all three themes for GCSE Spanish speaking, the pack also provides differentiated material for Foundation and Higher tiers, teaching notes and answers. What’s included? worksheets and vocabulary support pair work speaking activities and games help with how to revise for Spanish speaking GCSE model answers to use and adapt exam-style tasks. What’s inside? Section one: Role-plays (pages 4-34) Teaching notes Las redes sociales y la tecnología La música El deporte Donde vivo En el restaurante La salud Las vacaciones Los estudios y el trabajo Answers Section two: Photo cards (pages 35-75) Teaching notes Los amigos y la familia El matrimonio y la vida en pareja Las redes sociales y la tecnología Las tradiciones y las celebraciones Las obras caritativas y el voluntariado Los problemas medioambientales La pobreza y los sin techo El trabajo y elegir profesión Answers Section three: General conversation (pages 76-101) Teaching notes Asking questions Key ingredients Practice questions Answers Section four: Revision (pages 102-112) Teaching notes Mind-map template Word sort Inference grids Pass the parcel speaking Answers

Designed for AQA’s French GCSE (but also relevant to specifications from Edexcel and Eduqas), this pack will equip students with the language and skills they need to tackle their writing exam. Success at writing offers targeted and differentiated revision for all attainment levels, from grades 9-1. Students can pick and choose the question type they most need to work on and make real progress in a short space of time. The pack includes activities for each of the question types in the writing exam for Foundation and Higher tiers and features top tips to help students maximise their marks. What’s included? activities for each of the question types for Foundation and Higher tiers, including describing a photo, the 40, 90 and 150 word tasks and translation revision of key language, pair work and peer assessment as well as exam practice top tips to ensure success. What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) Teaching notes (page 5) Foundation tier Describing a photo (Foundation question 1) (pages 7-24) Getting started Tackling the question Exam practice Reflect and review Answers 40 word task (Foundation question 2) (pages 25-44) Getting started Tackling the question Exam practice Reflect and review Answers Translation sentences (Foundation question 3) (pages 45-61) Getting started Tackling the question Exam practice Reflect and review Answers Foundation and Higher tiers 90 word task (Foundation question 4 and Higher question 1) (pages 62-82) Getting started Tackling the question Exam practice Reflect and review Answers Higher tier 150 word task (Higher question 2) (pages 83-105) Getting started Tackling the question Exam practice Reflect and review Answers Translation passage (Higher question 3) (pages 106-116) Getting started Tackling the question Exam practice Reflect and review Answers (page 117)

Designed for AQA’s Spanish GCSE but also suited to support specifications from Edexcel and Eduqas, this pack will equip students with the language and skills they need to tackle their writing exam. Success at writing offers targeted and differentiated revision for all attainment levels, from grades 9-1. Students can pick and choose the question type they most need to work on and make real progress in a short space of time. The pack includes activities for each of the question types in the writing exam for Foundation and Higher tiers and features top tips to help students maximise their marks. What’s included activities for each of the question types for Foundation and Higher tiers, including describing a photo, the 40, 90 and 150 word tasks and translation revision of key language, pair work and peer assessment as well as exam practice top tips to ensure success. What’s inside? Foundation tier Describing a photo (Foundation question 1) (pages 7-24) Getting started Tackling the question Exam practice Reflect and review Answers 40 word task (Foundation question 2) (pages 25-44) Getting started Tackling the question Exam practice Reflect and review Answers Translation sentences (Foundation question 3) (pages 45-61) Getting started Tackling the question Exam practice Reflect and review Answers Foundation and Higher tiers 90 word task (Foundation question 4 and Higher question 1) (pages 62-82) Getting started Tackling the question Exam practice Reflect and review Answers Higher tier 150 word task (Higher question 2) (pages 83-105) Getting started Tackling the question Exam practice Reflect and review Answers Translation passage (Higher question 3) (pages 106-117) Getting started Tackling the question Exam practice Reflect and review Answers

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.

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