Help your students make those vital two levels of progress in KS3 English with this new APP focused series from Collins. Each book and paid-for download concentrates on moving students up one level in Reading, Writing or Speaking and Listening, covering each of the Assessment Focuses in turn. This digital download supports the Aiming for Level 4 Speaking and Listening book with additional activities, plus video and audio files to stimulate your classes' interest, model key speaking and listening skills and form the basis of analysis, showing student exactly what to do to progress. Whether you're looking for a one-off lesson, snappy starters or a longer programme of study, these flexible resources are designed to fit around the needs of your teaching and your classes. Aiming for Level 4 Speaking and Listening will help you to * Target areas of underperformance, with a chapter on each Assessment Focus and support at the right level written by experienced teachers, consultants and speaking and listening moderators. * Explain, build and develop the essential speaking and listening skills for this level, with clear, accessible explanations, inspiring examples and lively follow-up activities. * Motivate and engage students, with exciting stimulus video and audio extracts and activities. * Embed Assessment for Learning in your day-to-day teaching. * Plan ahead without the stress, with ready-to-use double-page lessons and a teacher guide at the back of the book. * Prepare students for GCSE success with a chapter on the new GCSE topic Spoken Language (AF4 'Talking about Talk').

 

This book is part of a book series called Aiming For .

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.

This book was published 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Keith Brindle is an experienced examiner and author of various publications.