This World Book Day, delve into tales of heroism, courage, and kindness featuring classic and modern characters. Explore journeys from Bilbo Baggins to young warriors and neurodivergent heroes. These stories highlight the extraordinary within the ordinary, celebrating determination, friendship, and the courage to stand up for what’s right. Choose your hero's journey!
Tag: KS3
The Giver
The Giver Lesson Bundle offers a comprehensive 4-week teaching resource for Lois Lowry's novel, enhancing students' understanding through detailed lessons, writing exemplars, thematic analysis, and a summative assessment. It includes engaging activities and printable resources, promoting participation and essential skills for middle, high school, and Key Stage 3 classrooms.
Beowulf: Introduction to PETER Analysis
Exemplar paragraph of analysis based on the characterisation of Grendel in Beowulf with a breakdown of Point, Evidence, Technique (or Terminology), Effect and Refer Back. Useful for an introduction to analysis and support for Key Stage 3 students and part of a wider scheme of learning on Beowulf for Year 7. Subscriber Content Download Introduction [...]
War Horse: Knowledge Organiser
A War Horse Knowledge Organiser, based on Michael Morpurgo's novella, including key vocabulary available for download. Making our British curriculum more accessible for EAL and ESL students by embedding key vocabulary and knowledge into the curriculum planning to support their language acquisition. The Knowledge Organiser is structured into three key areas: context, content and concepts. [...]
Journey to Jo’burg: Resource Bundle
Download: Journey to Jo'burg 4 Week Teaching Resource Bundle Complete resource bundle for the text ‘Journey to Jo’burg’ by Beverly Naidoo. Including 4 week medium term plan; detailed planned unit lessons; supportive resources; exemplar analysis on the text; carousels; Tier 2 vocabulary as well as an accompanying Knowledge Organiser and Scheme of Work. Adapted resources [...]
Essay Writing Collection
A series of posts dedicated to exploring the intricacies of essay writing and how to approach them. Essays require you to do many things simultaneously as you synthesise crucial information in an evaluative and analytical way whilst offering nuance in meaning. It can be complex. Use these guides to help demystify some of these areas and develop your essay writing skills.
Written Analysis: What, How and Why Questions
Applying graphic organisers such as flow charts to learning: breaking down the components of analysis to make it easier to comprehend and the put into action. Follow each part step-by-step to create effective analytical writing. Inspired by graphic organiser from @XpatEducator
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Tier 2 Vocabulary Korean Translations
A bank of translations both of key vocabulary and definitions from English into Korean for our EAL and ESL students available for download. Making our British curriculum more accessible for EAL and ESL students by embedding key vocabulary into the curriculum planning to support their language acquisition and development of CALPs.
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Awaken English 