I designed two individual schemes of work for English KS3: one for reading and one for writing. I always use these for year 7, 8 and 9 and just tweak them for the each lesson depending on the ability of the student. I use the lessons from the ‘Literacy in Context’ books. I find the really good to work with as they have a range of different types of texts (one of the main assessment criteria in the APP grids) and have really good exercises and writing activities.
The books are: Language to inform, explain and describe; Language to persuade, argue and advise; Language to analyse, review and comment; and Language of Shakespeare. They are really neat books as they are small enough to fit into a bag and carry around and you can buy them cheaply (second hand) on Amazon.
I would be happy to share my teaching resources/ schemes of work with anyone. Please just drop me an email. Also if you have any ideas or resources you could recommend or would like to share that would be great.
