Give your students a flying start to GCSE English!

Make a smooth transition from Key Stage 3 to GCSE. Designed to help students develop the skills and knowledge they will need for exam and controlled assessment success, A Bridge to GCSE helps you align your KS3 curriculum to the new GCSEs in English, English Language and English Literature.

With a particular focus on tackling new topics such as unseen poetry or spoken language, and on building controlled assessment skills, A Bridge to GCSE English gives you the tools to make the end of Key Stage 3 fun, challenging and a firm foundation for GCSE.

Pick and choose from six mini GCSE-style units designed to build students' understanding of GCSE topics and their familiarity with the styles of task required at GCSE:

1. Reading Creative Texts
2. Creative Writing
3. Poetry
4. Shakespeare
5. Spoken Language
6. Reading Non-fiction
7. Writing Non-fiction.

Each stimulating double-page in the student book is supported with a lesson plan and further resources in the teacher guide.

This book is part of a book series called Bridge To Gcse 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 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Phil Darragh is an experienced English teacher and Head of Department who has taught English GCSE and A Level for eighteen years. John Parry has taught English in comprehensive schools in Yorkshire for almost twenty years. He is also an experienced examiner for a leading Awarding Body.