How to use Teachers’ Club English to help with your planning.
The NEW Smart Learning Teachers’ Club English offers a raft of resources to support busy English teachers with the planning and delivery of the KS3 curriculum. Oh, and did we mention that all the resources are free?
This guide to Teachers’ Club English helps to explain how it all works. We’ve created a wide range of resources based on topics relevant to KS3 English which we know will help you to cut down planning time. Plus, we will regularly release brand new resources, which are loosely based around a new topic or theme.
Our current content is ‘Crime’ to coincide with the launch of our fantastic new KS3 thematic resource on Crime & Detection. You can help yourself to a raft of materials related to these themes as well as resources of general interest to English teachers.
You can also search our archive for resources on the new GCSE curriculum and its effect on KS3 teaching; NATE Conference 2015; war and conflict; crime and detection and summer holiday English.
Each suite of resources has a variety of elements including:
FREE teaching resources
Worksheets or structured questions to enhance your KS3 English lessons and homework.
Download your free worksheet (and answers!) on the poetry of Tennyson
SPaG for Life
Spelling and grammar underpin everything that students learn in English.
This post describes how to use familiar software such as Microsoft Word to create sentences which move beyond simple main clauses.
See the Sentenced! blog post here
Creative English
See this fun example on making structured arguments where your KS3 students consider the guilt, or innocence of Goldilocks!
Poetry
Articles based on poems and poets, designed to enhance your students’ experience of learning and studying poetry.
Why not use this lesson idea of rewriting John Masefield’s well-known and well-loved poem, Cargoes?
Author Biography
Learning about the lives and work of authors, writers and poets is an important aspect to any KS3 English course. These articles are biographies of famous writers which are written in language that all students can access.
If you’re studying fiction with your English students, why not take a look at the
biography of Malorie Blackman who has written on conflict for teenagers?
Smart Videos
We’ve scoured the internet for the best English videos so you don’t have to. Each video comes with an explanation of how it can be used in the classroom or some questions which you could ask students after they watched it.
You could show your class the video of our newest Smart English author, Alan Gibbons, talking about reading.