Key stage 3 English resources

You'll find a host of fun KS3 English resources, printable classroom worksheets and PowerPoint lessons for all areas of the English curriculum, written and edited by experienced teachers.

Choose from prose, poetry, plays, spoken English or SPaG, or search for KS3 English worksheets to target a particular reading skill. With hundreds of resources to develop learners’ reading comprehension and language analysis skills, your students will also learn about the writer’s craft and how to use a range of techniques including personification, metaphor and similes and alliteration to engage readers.

You can also develop their writing skills with activities for writing non-fiction texts (like newspaper articles) as well as fun creative writing prompts.

If you want to develop students’ English Language skills, our SPaG collection includes worksheets on all the punctuation rules (including capital letters, commas, apostrophes and exclamation marks). You’ll also find targeted and engaging grammar resources on simple sentences, compound sentences and complex sentences, as well as word classes such as adverbs and conjunctions

For popular Shakespeare plays for KS3, try our teaching packs for A Midsummer Night’s Dream or The Tempest.

Browse by key stage 3 topic or search by author, text or skill to refine your choices and find English worksheets to suit your learners’ needs.