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Introduction
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KS3 lesson starters
Lesson starters offer enjoyable and
interactive ways of paying systematic
attention to objectives, and can be
free-standing sequences of starters or be
linked with the focus of a lesson. This
document explains the principles behind the
lesson starters and the generic activities
involved.
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Word level starter activities (19
sessions)
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Sentence level starter activities (7
sessions)
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Text level starter activities (3
sessions)
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Year 7
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Unit: Write Now (12 lessons)
Pupils explore the range of purposes for
writing, investigating the characteristic
features of each non-fiction text type, and
of narrative. They build on their knowledge
of text types from Key Stage 2 by addressing
the objectives for writing in the Key Stage
3 Framework for teaching English, Years
7, 8 and 9 and meeting the new groupings
of texts in the Programmes of Study for Key
Stages 3 and 4. |
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Unit: Great Lives (9 lessons)
The unit focuses on features of personal
record writing. Pupils read a range of
biographical and autobiographical texts and
write a short biography. |
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Unit: Books in their Time (9 lessons)
This unit introduces pupils to the notion of
the English literary heritage and to certain
key writers from that heritage. It aims to
create interest and pleasure in the study of
texts over time, to provide pupils with a
framework for their wider reading and to
introduce them to writing critically. |
Year 8
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Unit: A Sense of Place (13 lessons)
This unit explores short stories by major
writers from different cultures, focusing on
the values and assumptions in the texts and
the narrative techniques employed. Pupils
then draw on their reading to write their
own stories. |
Year 9
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Unit: Travelling and Telling (9 lessons)
This unit explores travel writing. It
contrasts consumer-orientated tourist
information with more literary travel
writing from different periods. Pupils
consider the characteristics of the
different forms and explore the links
between style, context, content and purpose.
They analyse a TV holiday programme and
write an alternative voice-over. |
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Blank Unit
You can download a blank grid to help you
develop your own units of work. |
