KS3 Language Laboratory (Print)

A pupil book with nine units of work for Years 7-9 organised around three key areas of the language curriculum: Literature and Language; Standard English; Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation. Each unit develops knowledge about language and how it works, encouraging exploration, reflection and metacognition. This is a much-needed intervention in the KS3 curriculum, ensuring a prominent place for rigorous language study that challenges pupils to be active, critical and creative in their own reading and writing.

Key Aspects

• Develops pupils’ understanding of how language works.
• Adds critical and creative depth to the language knowledge students bring from KS2.
• Adds substance to the light-touch language requirements of the KS3 National Curriculum.
• Draws on real-life examples of language in use in literature and the wider world.
• Encourages understanding of the choices available in all language use.
• Close language study develops broader skills of reading and writing.
• Includes video interviews with well-known writers from fiction and journalism.

Section 1: Literature and Language

• Writers’ Choices
• The Power of Voice
• Text Transformations

Section 2: Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation

• Evolving Language
• Newsdesk!
• The Language Laboratory

Section 3: Standard English

• Standard!
• Pride and Prejudice
• Skool Rools!

KS3 Language Laboratory is part of EMC KS3 Curriculum Plus.

Sample Video