Key Stage 3 Bitesize - English

Brush up your Shakespeare, fiction and non-fiction literacy skills with KS3 Bitesize. Useful advice on improving your letter writing, descriptions, narratives and persuasive articles.

Guided Reading and Reading Games with Roy the Zebra

A wonderful guided reading story with accompanying printable worksheets and guided reading discussion sheets. There are 80 interactive literacy games, stories and songs for use in school or at home. Well worth a look!

The Parts of Speech

This site explains the eight parts of speech classified in traditional grammar: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections.

Parts of Speech Tutorial

Create the star of your show by choosing a noun, adjective and verb in this interactive parts of speech activity.

Teaching Ideas News

Teaching News aims to share the latest news, links and teaching ideas, in order to support teachers around the world.

Don't Use Said

A teaching resource which can help children understand speech marks and looks at better alternatives to the word 'said' in written work.

Verbs and Adverbs

A literacy game where you need to identify the verbs and adverbs. You will also need to fill in the missing words in sentences. Do well and you get to play a marble game.

Verbs in Space

See if you can spot the verbs. In this game you need to click on the robot holding the verb to whack it!

What are Nouns?

Learn all about all types of nouns and how to use them. Then test your knowledge on the quiz and game. Fantastic on an interactive whiteboard.

The Adjective Detective

A super site which explains what adjectives are. Great on an interactive whiteboard and best viewed in full-screen mode. Test your knowledge of adjectives on the quiz and game.