Extensive coverage of the curriculum
Explore English with comprehensive and varied teaching material. This attractive animation from the Year 8 unit on debating helps students to visualise what they are learning about. With thousands of slides, Boardworks gives you everything you need for your lessons, whatever your teaching style.
- Over 70 presentations offer extensive coverage of the renewed KS3 Framework for Teaching English, comprising ready-to-use schemes of work for each unit.
- KS3 Shakespeare offers complete coverage of The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard III.
- KS3 English supports an Assessing Pupils' Progress approach. Teacher's notes offer suggestions for using APP and worksheets have a traffic light system.
Well-organised resources for whatever you're teaching
All presentations are logically structured and contain a wealth of material to help you get the most from your lessons. Typical slides, like this one about asking questions, demonstrate the main points for teaching, clearly conveyed, with informative examples and attractive illustrative material.
- Clearly defined learning objectives at the beginning of every presentation enable you to convey the aims of each lesson to your class in a straightforward way.
- Engaging animations, activities, images and audio clips maintain class interest and provide a useful context for examples.
- A detailed mapping grid is included, showing how the resources match to the renewed KS3 Framework.
Time saving and ready-to-teach
Boardworks lessons are fully prepared and contain a wide variety of resources, saving you and your colleagues valuable preparation time. This audio-enhanced interactive, for instance, contains everything you need to get students thinking about Scottish dialect: listen and read along to the Robert Burns poem, before completing the linking task which follows.
- Interesting and varied resources support core learning objectives and develop essential skills in reading, writing, language and speaking and listening.
- Downloadable short stories with accompanying presentations, embedded audio and worksheets for the Year 8 Reading Literature unit and Year 9 Prose unit are included in the resources.
- Drama activities, such as role play and hotseating tasks, are integrated in the resource covering strand 4 of the KS3 Framework.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the technological and creative potential of your whiteboard by engaging your students in inspiringly interactive lessons. Colourful adjustable charts, like this one about characters from The Tempest, are an ideal stimulus for in-depth, student-led discussions on key themes and concepts.
- Voting graphs, interviews and true-or-false activities encourage whole-class debate and help improve speaking and listening competence.
- Over 100 attention-grabbing audio clips bring key texts to life.
- One in three slides is enriched with interactive content.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Explore all aspects of English with interesting, thought-provoking and easily-recalled activities. For example, use this engaging poetry sorting activity to support a lesson about poetry from other cultures. First ask your students to read the poem and then consider the poet's use of language.
- Encourage students to explore key topics and concepts in more detail with powerful animations, imaginative games and open-ended exercises.
- Innovative interactives, hotseating activities and discussion starters stimulate and involve the whole class.
- Many interactives are enhanced by illustrations, photographs and audio clips to help underpin learning.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
With Boardworks English, you can easily tailor the resources to the needs of your students. Typical slides, like this one about literature from other cultures, can be used flexibly – either as they are, or adapted with examples and questions more suited to the abilities of your class.
- All presentations are created in PowerPoint for ease of use, versatility and editability.
- Presentations can be added to and enhanced with your own ideas and resources.
- Exercises and activities can be used flexibly to support your own teaching methods and perfectly fit the abilities of your students.
Additional teaching support
Information-packed additional resources accompany many presentations and complement and enhance lessons in a multitude of ways. Hundreds of comprehensive worksheets underpin learning and allow students to work on a subject independently and at their own pace.
- Detailed contents documents for each year group serve as handy reference guides and are great for lesson planning.
- Teacher's notes provide useful tips and ideas for presenting the information on the slides, extension activities and suggested answers.
- New extension activities and differentiated worksheets for students of different levels adapt the lessons to the needs of your class.
Engaging summary material
Round up your lessons with motivational and wide-ranging summary material. Assess your Year 7 students' speaking and listening skills in this multiple choice quiz. Whatever your teaching style, Boardworks resources contain everything you need to comprehensively cover a topic from start to finish.
- Innovative review material helps students to master each topic and facilitates revision.
- End-of-topic quizzes, multiple choice plenaries and evaluative games definitively cover the entire content of the course.
- Extended question slides can be used as the foundations for essays and creative writing tasks, or to develop speaking and listening skills.
