Building Brilliant Vocabulary: 60 lessons to close the word gap in KS3

Paperback

Build brilliant vocabulary to help close the word gap in KS3 English with ready-made vocabulary activities for 60 high leverage Tier 2 words and teaching guidance informed by evidence and research.

60 ready-made lessons and student worksheets to share with your department to build confidence in teaching vocabulary in KS3 to improve students’ conceptual knowledge and prepare for GCSE 9–1.

· Tackles high leverage Tier 2 words to help students understand challenging concepts.
· Supports and exemplifies good practice in systematic and explicit teaching of vocabulary with a teaching sequence for each word with student activity sheets using the words in a range of contexts.
· Unlocks learning and reduces workload with a bank of vocabulary activities which are easy to set for homework, starters or tutor time.
· Helps you show Ofsted evidence of a structured approach to teaching Tier 2 vocabulary.
· Author Katie Ashford is an English teacher, specialist in SEN and the teaching of reading.
· Adapt the resources to your needs: the flexible format means lessons can be taught as a full vocabulary intervention programme, or dipped into to fit your own schemes of work.
• The student activity sheets and editable versions of the teacher notes can be downloaded from the Collins website: www.collins.co.uk/BuildingBrilliantVocabulary/download

RRP: £110.00

ISBN

978-0-00-838030-4

Publication Date

08-01-2020

Format

Paperback

Pages

136 pages

Dimensions

210x297mm

Product Description

Build brilliant vocabulary to help close the word gap in KS3 English with ready-made vocabulary activities for 60 high leverage Tier 2 words and teaching guidance informed by evidence and research.

60 ready-made lessons and student worksheets to share with your department to build confidence in teaching vocabulary in KS3 to improve students’ conceptual knowledge and prepare for GCSE 9–1.

· Tackles high leverage Tier 2 words to help students understand challenging concepts.
· Supports and exemplifies good practice in systematic and explicit teaching of vocabulary with a teaching sequence for each word with student activity sheets using the words in a range of contexts.
· Unlocks learning and reduces workload with a bank of vocabulary activities which are easy to set for homework, starters or tutor time.
· Helps you show Ofsted evidence of a structured approach to teaching Tier 2 vocabulary.
· Author Katie Ashford is an English teacher, specialist in SEN and the teaching of reading.
· Adapt the resources to your needs: the flexible format means lessons can be taught as a full vocabulary intervention programme, or dipped into to fit your own schemes of work.
• The student activity sheets and editable versions of the teacher notes can be downloaded from the Collins website: www.collins.co.uk/BuildingBrilliantVocabulary/download

Author

Katie Ashford

Katie is a founding teacher and Deputy Head at Michaela Community School. Since becoming a teacher in 2011, Katie has specialised in SEN teaching and improving literacy. She has written for various publications and has spoken at a number of national and international education conferences. Katie blogs at Tabularasaeducation.wordpress.com.