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This is a tutorial in grammar for teachers of English at KS3 - the UK terminology for ages 12-14, i.e. Years 7, 8 and 9. It explains all technical ideas and terms, and makes some suggestions for using them in teaching, and especially in the teaching of writing. It doesn't try to cover the whole of English grammar, but presents enough grammar to satisfy the DfES requirements for teaching English at KS3. The topics covered include those required at KS2, as well as a few others; similarly, the terminology is completely compatible with the official KS2 glossary for literacy as well as with the official glossary for MFL at KS3, but includes a few extra terms.

Free English resources: language library, media library, drama library, teaching tools (proformas)

Guided reading, active listening and speaking and listening.

26/707 - American-based site with some great English teaching ideas.

Lots of creative ideas for story and poetry writing using Roald Dahl's books.

3/8/2011 - Start of the year / first week of English - vocabulary

29/08/2011 - Superb idea!  Mark Warner (Teaching Ideas) has created a repository of inspiring ideas linked to a growing range of popular and engaging books. There are suggestions for English, together with plenty of cross-curricular links. Great stuff.

Plans, resources and recommended texts.

19/8/07 - Now live and growing - well worth a look! 1/7/07 - Examples of English planning due to be added here soon.

Medium term plans for KS1 and Ks2 with links to weekly plans and resources.

Click on your year group for relevant activities, planning and resources.

This website provides free resource material about children's books for teachers. Grouped into material about books, illustrators, writers, poets, genres, issues and countries.

As it says. Simple advice, easy to follow.

30/12/07 - For most text types

01/03/2011 - @DeputyMitchell's brilliant pupils writing inspired by Avatar.

18/09/2011 - "The sun is high and hot. Impossible rock sculptures tower over the desert floor, casting short purple shadows on the scrub and cacti. An insect chirps. A trail of speeding smoke appears at the horizon, tearing along the highway with reckless abandon. If we were to take a very fast exposure of the dust cloud as it blasts by, we might get a blurred snapshot of a giant RoadRunner (runforrestus run). Shaking her blue crest, quoth she: "Beep-beep." Brilliant!

16/3/08 - Great resource for Non-Chronological Reports.  Very clear and simple.

14/3/08 - Great resource for all aspects of grammar

31/5/08 - Diary, discussion, autobiography, letters, narrative and short story.

30/7/08 - An entertaining and informative website which answers the above question and many others. I will use modified versions of these when teaching explanation and information texts.