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A comprehensive, skills-rich scheme of work designed to build critical literacy, writing craft, and analytical confidence across non-fiction forms. Students will explore a wide variety of real-world texts—including speeches, reviews, letters, and articles—while practising essential reading skills and developing their own voice through purposeful writing tasks. What’s Included:

• 20+ fully resourced lessons, each with clear learning objectives and challenge tasks
• Structured coverage of core non-fiction skills: identifying facts/opinions, tone, purpose, audience, and comparing texts
• Real-world extracts from authors including George Orwell, Greta Thunberg, and Bill Bryson
• Scaffolded analysis and guided writing: persuasive, informative, descriptive, and comparative
• Integrated vocabulary building, comprehension, and explicit teaching of writing structures

Ideal For:

• KS3 English students in Years 7–9 preparing for GCSE-style analytical reading and writing
• Teachers introducing rhetorical devices, summarising, comparative analysis, and tone detection
• English departments seeking a springboard into GCSE English Language Paper 2

Bonus Features:

• Wide range of engaging text types to support whole-class discussion and individual response
• Supports reading for pleasure and empathy through thematic links to activism, identity, and social change
• Editable PowerPoint format – easy to adapt for your classroom context

Format: Editable PowerPoint
Length: 20+ lessons
Age Range: KS3 (11–14)