Teach KS3 and GCSE English Language reading skills with a complete teaching programme containing 30 worksheets in one printable PDF, a curriculum-mapped scheme of work and 10 teaching PowerPoints.

English Language Foundations by Kate Coldrick provides a progressive teaching sequence linking practical writing with reading comprehension, analysis, evaluation and comparison. Suitable for KS3 teaching and KS4 intervention, it builds understanding before students move on to exam-board-specific questions, timed practice and extended responses.

What is included?

• Complete worksheet programme: one printable PDF containing the programme overview and all 30 multi-page student worksheets, numbered 01–20b. Activities include practical writing tasks, short reading cases, longer texts, worked examples, discussion prompts and generous handwriting space.
• Scheme of work: a suggested teaching sequence with planning guidance, curriculum links for KS3 and KS4/GCSE, and checkpoints to help teachers review understanding and progression.
• 10 teaching PowerPoints: additional teaching examples, guided practice, discussion and independent tasks linked to the worksheets. The slides develop the teaching content rather than simply reproduce the worksheets. Answer slides repeat the relevant text and highlight evidence to support explanations.
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The programme covers:

• Finding facts and selecting supporting quotations.
• Making precise inferences about feelings, causes, intentions and attitudes.
• Summarising information in the student’s own words.
• Analysing word choices, associations, imagery and atmosphere.
• Understanding simile, metaphor and personification in context.
• Explaining opening choices, changes of focus and the timing of details.
• Developing supported judgements with distinct reasons.
• Comparing texts, writers’ viewpoints and the reasons behind them.
• Bringing these skills together through longer fiction and paired accounts.

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Clear instructions and an uncluttered layout can be helpful for autistic and other neurodivergent students who benefit from explicit, manageable tasks.
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Please check before purchasing: these are the same 30 worksheets available individually, in the topic bundles and across Volume 1 and Volume 2. This complete programme includes the combined worksheet PDF, a scheme of work and 10 accompanying teaching PowerPoints. If you already own some or all of the worksheets, that worksheet content will overlap.