English at KS3
The National Curriculum for English is statutory in all maintained, mainstream schools up to and including key stage 4. An appropriate version of the curriculum is used in maintained special schools. Key Stage 3 (KS3) covers years 7-9, children aged 12-14 years.
In English at KS3, children are working in the following:
Areas of key concepts:
- Competence
- Creativity
- Cultural understanding
- Critical understanding
Key processes:
Speaking and listening
- Presenting views clearly in different contexts with varied language structure
- Engaging an audience
- Listening and responding constructively to others
- Understanding explicit and implicit meanings
- Making relevant contributions to groups
- Summarising important points
- Using different dramatic techniques to create dramatic moments
Reading
- Reading for meaning – extracting information
- Inferring and deducing meanings
- Assessing texts
- Recognising and discussing interpretation
- Understanding audience response to texts
- Understanding how texts influence the selection of content and meaning
- Understanding how text is created through a combination of words, images and sounds
- The author’s craft
Writing
- Composition (appropriate level of detail, imagination, interesting the reader, points of view and how to get them across, grammatical structure and how to use this to extend, develop and link ideas, logical arguments, clear, legible and fluent writing)
- Technical accuracy (use of standard English conventions, accurate grammatical usage, sentence structure and spelling)
These pages show the challenges that children with these impairments may encounter and how provision can be made to ensure inclusion.
- Autism spectrum disorder focusing on Asperger’s syndrome
- Physical impairment
- Visual impairment
- Hearing impairment
- Dyslexia
- Communication difficulties
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