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.

KS3 English Skills Series 1 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. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-one-resource-pack-11860749

Subsequent packs build on these basic skills at Levels 4-7:

KS3 English Skills Series 2  Level 4 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-two-resource-pack-11860759

KS3 English Skills Series 3  Levels 4-5 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-three-resource-pack-11860761

KS3 English Skills Series 4  Level 5+ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-series-four-resource-pack-11860797

For even better value, bundles are also available: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-english-skills-resource-pack-bundle-11860826

Working with Words

Working with Words consists of a series of individual English lessons. The material in the packs has been designed to help in a variety of situations. Heads of Departments have found the series extremely useful for providing last minute lesson material for non-specialist staff covering for absent staff or for homework.

Some of the material provides useful revision work - particularly for the perennial problem with words like their and there and was and were.

A range of materials is also included - crosswords, word games, word searches etc. Many teachers have found this material useful at the end of a project, as individual homework assignments, or as something just a little different at the end of term.

There are four packs in the series: 

Working With Words Series One https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/40-lesson-working-with-words-series-one-scheme-of-work-11936051

Working With Words Series Two https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/40-lesson-working-with-words-series-two-scheme-of-work-11941036

Working With Words Series Three https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/40-lesson-working-with-words-series-three-scheme-of-work-11943807

Working With Words Series Four https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/40-lesson-working-with-words-series-four-scheme-of-work-11960207

Each pack contains 40 separate lessons. The packs are not graded.  Each pack contains differentiated work suitable for a wide range of pupil ability.

For even better value, bundles are also available: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/working-with-words-series-1-4-scheme-of-work-bundle-11961274

For English or Library lessons.

Teachers are always looking for ways to encourage reading. This pack of materials provides pupils with a structure for recording their personal reading progress in an interesting and stimulating manner.  

This popular scheme is used successfully in many UK secondary schools.

Students are guided through three levels - BRONZE, SILVER and GOLD - with specific targets that must be reached and recorded within each level.

Each level is rewarded with a certificate ideal for presentation in assemblies. 

The resource pack contains a wide variety of worksheets: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-record-scheme-of-work-for-library-lessons-12011584 

Language for Literature

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. These two packs aim to give pupils a sound understanding of many literary terms. These are explained and illustrated by examples.  Work is provided for pupils to do on each topic.

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 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-series-one-scheme-of-work-11911638

Language for Literature Series Two https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/language-for-literature-series-two-scheme-of-work-11911644

KS3 Responses to Reading 

Many of the extracts provide a good introduction to pre-twentieth century texts. The packs also provide a varied and instantly available source for one-off lessons and homework.

The material has been chosen for KS3 pupils.  

Responses to Reading Series One is most suitable for Years 7 and 8:

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-responses-to-reading-series-one-12081224

Responses to Reading Series Two is most suitable for Years 8 and 9:

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-responses-to-reading-series-two-12084714

Free sample pages from all of our schemes of work are also available from the TES resources site. The regular licence enables you to use the 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 the resource with colleagues at your school.