One photocopiable and editable teacher pack to assess reading progress and improve reading skills in KS3 English and help close gaps to aid reading recovery. Help every student become a confident reader with this systematic, evidence-based approach to developing reading skills in KS3 English in Years 7, 8 and 9. * Understand the latest research on reading and literacy to help teach students to develop the skills to become fluent readers * Model the reading process with a clear reading framework, purposeful reading and carefully designed questions on a range of texts * Save time with age-appropriate, diverse texts covering modern prose, non-fiction, pre-1914 prose and poetry * Access everything needed to identify and close precise knowledge gaps with extracts, short assessment tests, mark schemes, literacy skills grid and worksheets addressing key reading skills * Follow a consistent approach with nine tests, one per term for KS3, plus three supplementary tests for extra practice and flexibility * Provide targeted support for those furthest behind with further suggested texts and guidance Improve retention of new content from students marking, correcting and reflecting on their own work * Easy to weave into existing schemes of work with the flexible, customisable and supportive approach and Microsoft and Google compatible files

Jam-packed with enlivening ideas to help teachers make the subject of English more intellectually challenging for students - and to make it fun too! This artful addition to Phil Beadle's How To Teach series is the work of a man whose humility fails to hide his brilliance, providing English teachers with a sophisticated yet simple framework to hook their lessons upon. Covering poetry, grammar, Shakespeare and how to teach writing, Chris Curtis has furnished every page with exciting ideas that can be put into practice immediately. Each chapter presents a store of practical strategies to help students in key areas - providing apposite examples, teaching sequences and the rationale behind them - and has been accessibly laid out so that teachers can pinpoint the solutions they need without having to spend an age wading through academic theory and pontification to find them. Suitable for all teachers of English.