A complete 30-lesson Key Stage 3 English scheme of work on Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses, aligned to the National Curriculum across reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary, and spoken English. Fully resourced with five paste-ready Gamma teaching decks, a knowledge organiser, retrieval grids, a stretch and challenge pack, and assessment guidance with an annotated model.

What’s Included

• A full 30-lesson scheme: the divided world and the narrators, friendship and prejudice, the escalating conflict and Blackman’s craft, love and divided loyalties, and the ending and assessment.
• Medium Term Plan detailing all 30 lessons mapped to objectives, sequenced activities, outcomes and National Curriculum strands.
• Knowledge Organiser with plot, characters, themes, Blackman’s methods, context and key vocabulary.
• Retrieval Practice Grids with three spaced and interleaved grids plus a full answer key.
• Stretch and Challenge Pack with conceptual questions, a worked greater-depth model and wider reading.
• Assessment and Mark Guidance with Key Stage 3 progress descriptors, success criteria, and an annotated model paragraph showing the move from retelling to analysis.

Ideal For

• A half-term or term of Year 8 or Year 9 English.
• Building reading analysis, vocabulary and writing skills that lead into GCSE.
• Teaching about prejudice, power and empathy through a gripping, widely loved novel.
• Mixed-attainment classes, with built-in scaffolding and stretch.