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English
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Free English study notes for Key Stage 3 (KS3) students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.
Reading
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
Grammar and Vocabulary
Writing: narrative and descriptive
Narrative Writing
Descriptive Writing
Imaginative Writing: Scripts and Poetry
Planning, Drafting and Editing
Spoken English
Discussion and Debate
Listening Skills
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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