• Colourful and visually appealing to help engage and inspire your students.
• Full of motivating activities, with opportunities for Assessment for Learning.
• Glossaries help make poems accessible for all your students.
• Uses a wide range of poetry styles with well-known classics and more contemporary poetry, as required in the National Curriculum.
• Provides coverage of Framework objectives for teaching English to help you deliver the KS3 strategy.
• Helps with pupil's progression throughout KS3 and transition from KS3 to GCSE.

This book is part of a book series called Interactive Poetry 11-14 .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Pearson Education Limited .

Ken Haworth is the author of many English Language texts, including English A for CSEC 2e. Imelda Pilgrim has written a plethora of English Language textbooks for a variety of markets. Anthony Perry has been an Assistant Chief Examiner currently provides consultant services to the University of the West Indies, the University Council of Jamaica, the Jamaica Tertiary Education Commission and the Caribbean Examinations Council. Maria Darlington is a teacher based in Barbados. Based in Barbados, Joyce Stewart has been a Chief Examiner.

This book has the following chapters:

Section A: Poets and their poems

Norman Silver
Electronic Brain
I want trainers
Life is a ball
Linking the Norman Silver poems

John Agard
The Soldiers Came
What The Teacher Said When Asked: What Er We Avin For Geography Miss?
Checking Out Me History
Linking the John Agard poems

Elizabeth Jennings
The Moth's Plea
Casting a spell
The Fish's Warning
Linking the Elizabeth Jennings poems

Poems on a theme: Playing with words
Anon: Why English is so hard
David Horner: Little Acorns
Malorie Blackman: Facing the Truth with Haikus
Linking the Playing with words poems

Poem pairings
Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky
Trevor Millum: Jabbermockery

Section B: Poets and their poems

Benjamin Zephaniah
Wot a pair
According to my mood
Important notice
Linking the Benjamin Zephaniah poems

Jackie Kay
English cousin comes to Scotland
Tomorrow they'll be coming to get me
Pollution
Linking the Jackie Kay poems

William Blake
The Tyger
Holy Thursday (Experience)
London
Linking the William Blake poems

Poems on a theme: Through my eyes
Alan Smith: Weekend visit
Susan Hrynkow: Grandfather
Berlie Doherty: Quieter than snow
Linking the Through my eyes poems

Poem pairings
WB Yeats: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Sheenagh Pugh: The boy with a Cloud in his Hand
Shakespeare: Sonnet 18
Celia Warner: Shakespeare's 18th Worm

Section C: Poets and their poems

Thomas Hardy
A Light Snow-Fall after Frost
Heredity
The Walk
Linking the Thomas Hardy poems

Grace Nichols
On Receiving a Jamaican Postcard
Two Old Black Men on a Leicester Square Park Bench
For Forest
Linking the Grace Nichols poems

Ted Hughes
Thistles
The Harvest Moon
The Thought Fox
Linking the Ted Hughes poems

Poems on a theme: Words of war
Siegfried Sassoon: Suicide in the Trenches
Ho Thien: Green Beret
Goran Simic: Sorrow of Sarajevo
Linking the Words of war poems

Poem pairings
Rupert M Loydell: Tramp
Nissim Ezekiel: Poverty Poems 2
Gillian Clarke: Swinging
Vernon Scannell: Nettles