Engaging and challenging activities on a diverse range of stimulating, short stories and novels, each with a distinct focus to fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum and the Framework for Teaching English at Key Stage 3. Opportunities for speaking and listening, creative writing and drama activities, as well as for teaching about language and the craft of the writer. Includes the full text of all the featured short stories and substantial extracts from the novels. Units on Make Lemonade and Holes include the transcripts of original interviews with the authors, Virginia Euwer Wolff and Louis Sachar. Provides opportunities for speaking and listening, creative writing and drama activities, as well as for teaching about language and the craft of the writer. * Introducing narrative, including short stories by Annie Proulx and Kevin Crossley-Holland. * Fire, Bed and Bone - an historical novel. * MapHead - structure, characters and language. * Troy - same story, different tellings, including extracts from the novel by Adele Geras. * Holes - reading a novel. * True Stories - telling a personal story, with stories from True Tales of American Life, ed. Paul Auster. * Oliver Twist - a nineteenth-century novel, plus wider reading on Coram Boy and Street Child. * Kit's Wilderness - the craft of the writer. * Finding yourself - reading stories on a theme by Stephen Amidon, Julie Myerson, Michael Anthony and Catherine R. Johnson. * Make Lemonade - reading an unconventional novel. * Causing a controversy - novels about difficult issues, including Junk and Stone Cold and wider reading suggestions. DVD * Interviews with David Almond, Lesley Howarth and Melvin Burgess. * 30 minutes-worth of extracts from the film of Oliver Twist (1948, d. David Lean). * 35 minutes of readings from Oliver Twist by the award-winning actor Alex Jennings. * Four additional clips from the film directed by Polanski in 2005.

 

This book is part of a book series called Emc Ks3 English .

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 191 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by English & Media Centre .