Key Stage 3 English Anthology: Myths and Legends


Book Description

Inspire your teaching with Key Stage 3 English Anthology: Myths and Legends, a themed anthology for Year 7. Featuring myths such as The Odyssey and legends such as King Arthur, this Anthology guides students through fiction, non-fiction and poetry, encouraging them to connect with a variety of texts to gain a thorough understanding of the context and literary techniques underpinning each piece. Each extract is supported by Teaching and Learning Resources, including quizzes, lesson plans and PowerPoint slides to help you implement the content of the book. Each extract includes: - A context panel to provide key information to set the scene of each myth - Glossaries and annotations to help students work through each extract confidently - Look closer: key questions for students to consider as they work through the extracts - Now try this: writing and speaking activities to encourage students to get creative and actively engage with the text - Fast finisher tasks to support students who race ahead - A practice question to familiarise students with the command words they will see at GCSE




Key Stage 3 English Anthology: War


Book Description

Inspire your teaching with Key Stage 3 English Anthology: War, a themed anthology for Year 8. Featuring a moving mixture of poetry and prose, this Anthology guides students through a variety of extracts encouraging them to connect with the text to gain a thorough understanding of the context and literary techniques underpinning each piece of work. Each extract is supported by Teaching and Learning Resources, including quizzes, lesson plans and PowerPoint slides to help you implement the content of the book. Each extract includes: - A context panel to provide key information to set the scene of each extract - Glossaries and annotations to help students work through each extract confidently - Look closer: key questions for students to consider as they work through the extracts - Now try this: writing and speaking activities to encourage students to get creative and actively engage with the text - Fast finisher tasks to support students who race ahead - A practice question to familiarise students with the command words they will see at GCSE




Key Stage 3 English Anthology: 19th Century


Book Description

Inspire your teaching with Key Stage 3 English Anthology: 19th Century, a themed anthology for Year 9. Featuring Austen, Brontë and Tennyson, this Anthology guides students through fiction, non-fiction and poetry, encouraging them to connect with a variety of texts to gain a thorough understanding of the context and literary techniques underpinning each piece. Each extract is supported by Teaching and Learning Resources, including quizzes, lesson plans and PowerPoint slides to help you implement the content of the book. Each extract includes: - A context panel to provide key information to set the scene - Glossaries and annotations to help students work through each extract confidently - Look closer: key questions for students to consider as they work through the extracts - Now try this: writing and speaking activities to encourage students to get creative and actively engage with the text - Fast finisher tasks to support students who race ahead - A practice question to familiarise students with the command words they will see at GCSE




Key Stage 3 English Anthology: Dystopia


Book Description

Inspire your teaching with Key Stage 3 English Anthology: Dystopia, a themed anthology for Year 9. Featuring Animal Farm, The Handmaid's Tale and Lord of the Flies, this Anthology guides students through fiction, non-fiction and poetry, encouraging them to connect with a variety of texts to gain a thorough understanding of the context and literary techniques underpinning each piece of work. Each extract is supported by Teaching and Learning Resources, including quizzes, lesson plans and PowerPoint slides to help you implement the content of the book. Each extract includes: - A context panel to provide key information to set the scene - Glossaries and annotations to help students work through each extract confidently - Look closer: key questions for students to consider as they work through the extracts - Now try this: writing and speaking activities to encourage students to get creative and actively engage with the text - Fast finisher tasks to support students who race ahead - A practice question to familiarise students with the command words they will see at GCSE




Key Stage 3 English Anthology: 19th Century


Book Description

Inspire your teaching with Key Stage 3 English Anthology: 19th Century, a themed anthology for Year 9. Featuring Austen, Brontë and Tennyson, this Anthology guides students through fiction, non-fiction and poetry, encouraging them to connect with a variety of texts to gain a thorough understanding of the context and literary techniques underpinning each piece. Each extract is supported by Teaching and Learning Resources, including quizzes, lesson plans and PowerPoint slides to help you implement the content of the book. Each extract includes: - A context panel to provide key information to set the scene - Glossaries and annotations to help students work through each extract confidently - Look closer: key questions for students to consider as they work through the extracts - Now try this: writing and speaking activities to encourage students to get creative and actively engage with the text - Fast finisher tasks to support students who race ahead - A practice question to familiarise students with the command words they will see at GCSE




British Book News


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Includes no. 53a: British wartime books for young people.




Key Stage 3 English Anthology: Gothic


Book Description

Inspire your teaching with Key Stage 3 English Anthology: Gothic, a themed anthology for Year 8. Featuring texts full of suspense, horror and gloom such as Frankenstein and Dracula, this anthology guides students through fiction, non-fiction and poetry encouraging them to connect with a variety of texts to gain a thorough understanding of the context and literary techniques underpinning each piece of work. Each extract is supported by Teaching and Learning Resources, including quizzes, lesson plans and PowerPoint slides to help you implement the content of the book. Each extract includes: - A context panel to provide key information to set the scene of each extract - Glossaries and annotations to help students work through each extract confidently - Look closer: key questions for students to consider as they work through the extracts - Now try this: writing and speaking activities to encourage students to get creative and actively engage with the text - Fast finisher tasks to support students who race ahead - A practice question to familiarise students with the command words they will see at GCSE







The Last Wolf


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Michael Morpurgo has created a sweeping and dramatic story in the time of Bonnie Prince Charlie. This spellbinding tale is complemented perfectly by Michael Foreman's illustrations. Robbie McLeod and a wolf cub, both orphaned, venture far from their birthplace, a land of rebellious fighters and vicious redcoats. There is little constancy in Robbie's adventurous life, save for the companionship of his wolf. But when at last Robbie finds a place where he can peacefully make his home, he knows in his heart that the wolf must find his own natural home too . . .