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Key Stage 3 - all resources (alphabetical)

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Abomination by Robert Swindells
Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard
Adam's Common by David Wiseman
Advertising
Advice and teaching tips
AfL
An introduction to poetry
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Assessment and targets
Assorted short stories
Autobiographical writing - Me, myself and I
Ballads
Beowulf and Jabberwocky
Bishop Hatto by Robert Southey
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Black Harvest (Plays Plus)
Blitzed by Robert Swindells
Boy by Roald Dahl
Brave New Words
Broadcast News
Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells
Buddy by Nigel Hinton
Bumface by Morris Gleitzman
Canon Fire
Canterbury Tales
Car advertising
Classic poetry
Clue
Clueless
Collision Course by Nigel Hinton
Comparing poems
Comparing short stories
Correction exercises
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Creative writing - mystery, murder and suspense
Creative writing 1 (KS3)
Crick resources
Darkside by Tom Becker
Daz 4 Zoe by Robert Swindells
Descriptions of language
Dictionary and thesaurus skills
Display
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Drafting and redrafting
Drama essentials
Drama games
Essay writing
Exploring cartoons
Exploring information based websites
Exploring tense
Face by Benjamin Zephaniah
Fantastic Beasts (Harry Potter) by J.K. Rowling
Fat Boy Swim by Catherine Forde
Film
Flour Babies by Anne Fine
Frankenstein (Oxford playscripts) adapted by Philip Pullman
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Free! by David Grant
Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter
Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah
Gender issues
Gifted and talented teaching
Goggle Eyes by Anne Fine
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
Grammar and punctuation PowerPoints
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grinny by Nicholas Fisk
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hamlet
Hamlet: KS3 drama-based activities
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling
Headlines activities for Syntex
Henry V
Henry V - Act 4 Scene 1
His Dark Materials (play) by Philip Pullman and Nicholas Wright
Hold On by Alan Gibbons
Holes by Louis Sachar
I am David by Anne Holm
I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill
Introducing Dickens
Introduction to Drama
Introduction to Shakespeare: background and biography
Introduction to Shakespeare: language
Introduction to Shakespeare: the plays
Investigating magazines
Investigating words and spelling
Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs
Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo
Julius Caesar
Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
King of Shadows by Susan Cooper
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
Knowledge about language
KS3 test materials
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Langston Hughes / John Agard
Leaflets
Lesson starters
Library and research skills
Literacy progress unit: sentences
Literacy progress unit: writing organisation
Macbeth
Macbeth - Act 1
Macbeth - Act 2
Macbeth - Act 3
Macbeth - Act 4
Macbeth - Act 5
Macbeth: Drama approaches
Madame Doubtfire
Magazines
Maid Marian and Her Merry Men by Tony Robinson
Making the most of ICT
Marketing
Marking and Reports
Media essentials (KS4/5)
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Moving image
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing (KS3)
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 1
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 2
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 3
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 4
Murder mystery Drama unit
My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick
Myths and Legends
National Curriculum attainment levels
Newspapers
Nightmare in Yellow by Fredric Brown
Non fiction text types
Non-fiction and media basics (KS3/4)
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Othello
Our Day Out by Willy Russell
Parts of speech
Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
Planning aids
Poetry activities for Syntex
Poetry basics
Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Punctuation
Reading challenges
Reading skills
Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah
Resource templates
Resources for communicating with parents / carers
Revision skills & exam preparation
Richard III
Richard III - Act 1
Richard III - Act 2
Richard III - Act 3
Richard III - Act 4
Ricky Brown
Roald Dahl's short stories
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet - Act 3 Scene 1
Romeo and Juliet - Act 3 Scene 5
Romeo and Juliet - The Banquet Scene (Act 1 Scene 5)
Romeo and Juliet Drama unit
Room 13 by Robert Swindells
Scarper Jack and the Bloodstained Room by Christopher Russell
Sentence construction
Series, Serial, Soap Opera
Shadow of the Minotaur
Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Shrek
Skellig by David Almond
SMART Notebook templates
Smash by Robert Swindells
Speaking and listening tasks
Stone Cold by Robert Swindells
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Teachit Trails
Technical knowledge & theatre
Text level work - paragraphs and structure
The Ant Colony by Jenny Valentine
The Bike by Alan Sillitoe
The Black Book of Secrets by F.E. Higgins
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
The Deserted House
The Firework-Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman
The First World War
The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
The Kingdom by the Sea by Robert Westall
The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall
The Midnight Fox
The Mistletoe Bough
The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Princess Bride
The Railway Children (Ladybird abridged version)
The Raven
The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
The Secret Diary of Anne Frank
The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
The Steamie by Tony Roper
The Story of King Arthur by Robin Lister
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
The Tempest - Act 1
The Tempest - Act 2
The Tempest - Act 3
The Tempest - Act 4
The Tempest - Act 5
The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
The Truman Show
The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene Kemp
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Wind Singer by William Nicholson
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Yellowcake Conspiracy by Stephen Davies

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Remy's secret messages (08/01/2010)

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Decode a secret message between Remy and the director of the C.T.U. Includes teacher's answer sheet.
KS3

51.0 k

63.5 k

35.5 k
Character match up (04/12/2009)works

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Connect the character to key quotations.
KS3

88.0 k

67.1 k
Exploring writing styles (27/11/2009)

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Challenge! Rewrite Haroun's adventures in the first person.
KS3

40.6 k

53.2 k

39.9 k
Fulani proverbs (27/11/2009)

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Match the Fulani proverbs from the novel with the correct meaning.
KS3

51.0 k

52.7 k
Chapter 11 observation challenge (24/07/2009)

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Observational quiz questions based on reading Chapter 11.
KS3

52.2 k

59.4 k

1.2 k
Blaise Soda character study (19/06/2009)
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Get to grips with the character of Blaise Soda. Includes thinking points and a character study activity. (Teacher's notes on last page.)
KS3

1.5 k

2.8 k
Choptalk puzzle (29/05/2009)works

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Try this Choptalk whizzy activity. Reassemble the chopped text to complete the 'gripping' paragraph from Chapter 2. (Help and answers included in the second file.)
KS3

54.8 k

37.9 k
Take the summary challenge (07/05/2009)

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Review and summary task based on Chapters 1-8. Useful for reviewing events so far and developing explanation skills.
KS3

43.4 k

41.5 k
Remy's report (07/05/2009)

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Sequencing task to order the events in the novel and help Remy write his end of mission report.
KS3

88.4 k

62.0 k
What kind of reader are you? (01/04/2009)

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Exploring Chapter 1 as an active reader using the text and making predictions about what might happen.
KS3

96.3 k

99.3 k

9.3 k
Haroun - the unwilling spy (31/03/2009)works   IWB

Related resources: Prose | The Yellowcake Conspiracy by Stephen Davies
What does it take to be a good spy? Find out with this engaging sorting task.
KS3

76.4 k

48.6 k
Detective work (31/03/2009)

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A lovely research task exploring key ideas from the novel. Could be used as a pre-reading activity.
KS3

87.4 k

58.9 k
Aziz the gecko (31/03/2009)

Related resources: Prose | The Yellowcake Conspiracy by Stephen Davies
An engaging creative writing task based on the character of Aziz and his mission to 'acquire' a treasure from the British museum.
KS3

205.3 k

119.8 k
More on this later… (31/03/2009)
Related resources: Prose | The Yellowcake Conspiracy by Stephen Davies
A lovely speaking and listening task. Students prepare for a TV news broadcast covering the theft of the Golden Odes.
KS3

119.8 k

161.8 k
Bring back the Odes! (31/03/2009)

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A lovely guide to writing a newspaper report covering the theft of the Golden Odes.
KS3

131.9 k

64.5 k
Police report (31/03/2009)

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Using information from Chapter 2 students create a police report, recording and reporting the death of Claude Gerard.
KS3

154.2 k

98.3 k
In memory of… (31/03/2009)works

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Writing task to compile an obituary for Claude Gerard using explicit and implicit information. Includes differentiated support sheets.
KS3

84.4 k

106.5 k
Tracking the tension (31/03/2009)

Related resources: Prose | The Yellowcake Conspiracy by Stephen Davies
Sequencing and tracking chart! A useful way in which to get students to order events and rate the level of tension in the novel.
KS3

210.2 k

79.9 k
The latest must-see! (31/03/2009)

Related resources: Prose | The Yellowcake Conspiracy by Stephen Davies
Engaging task in which students write about the film release for a film critics' screening.
KS3

161.5 k

119.3 k
Spin-off activities (31/03/2009)

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Twenty varied spin off or alternative activities based on the novel. Perfect for extension challenges, homework or as a plenary/starter.
KS3
Theory and Theatre Studies
Thinking and discussion skills
Throwaways by Ian Strachan
Time travel films
Tins by Alex Shearer
Topical and seasonal one-offs
Travel writing
Tunnels by Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night - Act 1 Scene 5
Twelfth Night - Act 2 Scene 4 and Act 3 Scene 1
Twelfth Night - Act 3 Scene 4
Two Weeks with the Queen - play version by Mary Morris
Two Weeks with the Queen by Morris Gleitzman
What has happened to Lulu?
Whispers in the Graveyard by Theresa Breslin
Whispers in the Graveyard by Theresa Breslin (play version by Richard Conlon)
White Poppies by Sue Saunders
Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo
Wilderness by Roddy Doyle
Witch Child by Celia Rees
Wordsearch
Writing for audience and purpose
Writing to analyse, review, comment
Writing to argue, persuade, advise
Writing to inform, explain, describe
Year 7 poetry module
Edexcel GCSE English 2010
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