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Testing KS3 English Skills and Practice Year 8 - Christine Moorcroft

Description: ISBN 0748771352 / Author: Christine Moorcroft / Genre: Education / Publisher: Nelson Thornes / This title adopts a 'keep-it-simple' ... more

Testing KS3 English Skills and Practice Year 8 - Christine Moorcroft ... approach, enabling students to work through the tests and assimilate knowledge, gaining the skills required to succeed in optional tests and SATs. Carefully structured to provide built-in differentiation and progression for students, it allows for texts to be mediated and for students to work alone, providing step-by-step advice and help throughout. The accompanying Teacher's Resources contain advice, answers, photocopiable supplementary tests, and worksheets.

Newest Review: ... one of the three reading passages is a poem, and in most cases there is one fiction and one non-fiction piece. On the whole, ... more

... the poems are modern, such as Ted Hughes' 'Amulet' and Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', although the latter involves a public telephone box from several decades ago with A and B buttons that take a little explaining. Fiction passages range from extracts from George Orwell's 'Down and Out in Paris and London' and Jack London's 'White Fang' to Jan Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'. As for non-fiction, Gertrude Williams' 'Economics of Everyday Life' explains how several hundred years ago small communities used t...more

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Testing KS3 English Skills and Practice Year 8 - Christine Moorcroft: Developing Reading and Writing Skills (920 words)
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Testing KS3 English: Skills and Practice, Year 8 contains six test papers based on the themes of Work, Science fiction, Prejudice, Families, Wolves and Dancing. Within each test paper are three reading passages, each followed by questions, and two writing assignments, one major and one minor. The first reading passage in each paper is a shortish one, the second requires 'more complex skills' to be used, and the third is intended to provide an opportunity for more independent work by the pupil. All except two of the reading passages have a coloured drawing accompanying them, which would encourage a visual learner or a less confident reader. Year 8 in England ... Read the complete review