English

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Free English revision notes for Key Stage 3 (KS3) students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.

Reading skills

  • Retrieval and Summary

  • Inference and Referring to Evidence

  • Analysing Language and Figurative Devices

  • Structure and Organisational Features

  • Purpose, Audience and Context

  • Comparing Texts

Reading texts by type

  • Shakespeare: Reading a Play Text

  • Drama: Staging, Performance and Interpretation

  • Pre-1914 Prose

  • Contemporary Prose and World Literature

  • Poetry: Form, Sound and Poetic Conventions

  • Non-Fiction and Information Texts

Writing: narrative and descriptive

Writing: non-fiction forms

  • Argument and Discussion Essays

  • Persuasive Speeches and Presentation Scripts

  • Personal and Formal Letters

  • Articles and Reports

  • Reviews

  • Summarising and Organising Information

Grammar in use

  • Sentence Structure and Clauses

  • Punctuation

  • Word Classes and Morphology

  • Standard English, Register and Variety

  • Cohesion, Paragraphing and Layout Devices

Vocabulary and spelling

  • Vocabulary in Context

  • Prefixes, Suffixes and Word Families

  • Synonyms, Antonyms and Shades of Meaning

  • Spelling Patterns and Rules

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