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Key stage 3 english, sequenced

Year 7 · Year 8 · Year 9 · 18 units in all

Six half-termly units an academic year, one row per lesson rather than a page per lesson. Each year is written backwards from what the next one states it assumes on entry, so Year 7 ends where Year 8 needs it to start and nothing is taught twice by accident. Every unit maps to the statutory programme of study.

Year 7 6 units

  1. 1a Reading a Novel: Character and Inference
  2. 1b Writing to Describe and Narrate
  3. 2a Poetry: Voice, Image and Sound
  4. 2b Introducing Shakespeare
  5. 3a Myths and Legends: Where Stories Come From
  6. 3b Non-fiction, Argument and Spoken English

Year 8 6 units

  1. 1a Reading a Novel: Theme and Writer’s Purpose
  2. 1b Writing to Inform, Explain and Persuade
  3. 2a Poetry: Comparing Voices
  4. 2b Shakespeare: Power and Consequence
  5. 3a The Gothic: Reading and Writing the Nineteenth Century
  6. 3b Media, Bias and the Language of Persuasion

Year 9 6 units

  1. 1a The Nineteenth-Century Novel
  2. 1b Creative Writing: Craft and Control
  3. 2a Poetry: Power, Identity and Protest
  4. 2b Shakespeare: A Whole Play
  5. 3a Literature and Society: Dystopia and Protest
  6. 3b Spoken Language and Writing to a Viewpoint

3 years, sold separately

Key stage 3 · first 8 pages of each open here

Cover of Year 7 English

English · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 7 English

Six half-termly units across one academic year, covering all four strands of the programme of study. Reading opens the year because writing improves fastest in students who have just read closely, and spoken English closes it because it draws on everything the other five units build.

  1. 1a Reading a Novel: Character and Inference
  2. 1b Writing to Describe and Narrate
  3. 2a Poetry: Voice, Image and Sound
  4. 2b Introducing Shakespeare
  5. 3a Myths and Legends: Where Stories Come From
  6. 3b Non-fiction, Argument and Spoken English

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013) · 34 pages, 8 sections · For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Cover of Year 8 English

English · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 8 English

Six half-termly units across one academic year, written backwards from Year 9 and forwards from Year 7. The year adds the three things Year 9 assumes: comparison, control of register for a named audience, and sustained reading of pre-1900 prose.

  1. 1a Reading a Novel: Theme and Writer’s Purpose
  2. 1b Writing to Inform, Explain and Persuade
  3. 2a Poetry: Comparing Voices
  4. 2b Shakespeare: Power and Consequence
  5. 3a The Gothic: Reading and Writing the Nineteenth Century
  6. 3b Media, Bias and the Language of Persuasion

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013) · 34 pages, 8 sections · For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Cover of Year 9 English

English · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 9 English

Six half-termly units across one academic year, forming the bridge to GCSE. Every demand a GCSE course makes — a whole nineteenth-century novel, a whole Shakespeare play, comparison across periods, structured creative writing, viewpoint writing and a formal spoken assessment — is met here first, with no marks attached.

  1. 1a The Nineteenth-Century Novel
  2. 1b Creative Writing: Craft and Control
  3. 2a Poetry: Power, Identity and Protest
  4. 2b Shakespeare: A Whole Play
  5. 3a Literature and Society: Dystopia and Protest
  6. 3b Spoken Language and Writing to a Viewpoint

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 English (DfE, 2013) · 35 pages, 8 sections · For heads of English, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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