Interactive English is a complete yet flexible package of resources for English departments to support the teaching of the revised Key Stage 3 curriculum to pupils of all abilities and by experienced and newly qualified teachers alike. The Year 8 Dynamic Learning Teacher's Resource provides a complete set of flexible lesson plans and materials for teachers, structured around the key processes, content and curriculum opportunities of the KS3 programme of study for Year 8. Each lesson contains: - links out to relevant key Framework objectives for pupils and teachers - resources in electronic formats to deliver key content and skills practice: interactive starter activities; source texts; PowerPoint language presentations; audio files; editable worksheets; editable writing frames; video clips; weblinks; images - 'live' thumbnails of corresponding Pupil's Book pages for each level - suggestions for differentiation opportunities within comprehensive teacher's notes - links out to Assessment Guidance and assessment profiling support - links to appropriate Strategy Pupil Progression Maps (for Reading and Writing) Includes both pre-loaded lesson routes and opportunities for flexibility via the DL Lesson Builder tool.

 

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 2009 by Hodder Education .

'English Works' is written by Key Stage 3 English Consultants and practising teachers. They are all experienced authors and have written many successful books for English and Literacy. John Catron is Key Stage 3 English Consultant for Redcar and Cleveland, Chris Marshall is Secondary Literacy/English Manager for Brighton and Hove LEA, and Jo Shackleton is Key Stage 3 English Consultant for Slough LEA. Margaret Ryan is a full time writer after a long career as a primary school teacher. She is now an established younger fiction author and travels extensively throughout Scotland, England and Wales visiting schools and libraries. All the authors are experienced classroom practitioners. Linda Hill is a former Head of English and is now a freelance English consultant and OFSTED inspector; Zoe Livingstone is an English adviser for Slough LA; Saira Sawtell is a AST and Head of English at Budmouth Technology College, and was the regional winner in the 2006 Outstanding New Teacher category; Anita Spires is an English consultant at Slough LA; Pat Woolfe is a former Head of English and now an English consultant for Oldham LEA.

This book has the following chapters: Unit 1 Ten lessons Unit 2 Ten lessons Unit 3 Ten lessons Unit 4 Ten lessons Unit 5 Ten lessons Unit 6 Ten lessons Unit 7 Ten lessons Unit 8 Ten lessons Unit 9 Ten lessons