Summary:
'Interactive English' is a complete yet flexible package of resources for English departments to support the teaching of the revised Key Stage 3 curriculum to pupils of all abilities and by experienced and newly qualified teachers alike. Teachers will be guided through this comprehensive set of resources via a printed Teacher’s Book and a Dynamic Learning Teacher's Resource. Each year every pupil will have a Pupil’s Book tailored to the ability level they are working at (approximated to NC levels) which guides them through the essential language and skills work, plus a Pupil’s ‘lite’ version of Dynamic Learning on CD-ROM for independent use on a PC at school or at home.

The Year 7 package includes a full-colour Teacher's Book, a Dynamic Learning Teacher's Resource and a three Pupil's Books for pupils working from NC Level 2 to NC Level 5. Each Pupil's Book (Establishing, Developing and Extending) includes language skills presentation and practice material and contains a Pupil's DL CD-ROM with digital presentations and interactive practice activities for pupils to work on independently.

The Year 7 Teacher's Book covers the key concepts and processes of the revised programme of study, offering a full range of lesson plans to cover the breadth of the curriculum while at the same time allowing for a great deal of flexibility in the way in which teachers can deliver the suggested lessons or recombine the various source materials and assessment tasks to suit their own teaching style and the levels of their pupils. This book includes a CD-ROM of editable worksheets.

The Teacher's Book and the accompanying Dynamic Learning CD-ROM sit at the heart of this English package, offering teachers entirely flexible source material and activities that can easily be adapted and personalised for groups and individual pupils as necessary. The recommended lesson plans will link clearly to key objectives and encourage teachers to integrate the prescribed curriculum content with practice of all four main skills as well as the personal, learning and thinking skills and functional skills frameworks.

• Comprehensive and engaging coverage of the full range and content of the revised KS3 English programme of study.
• One-third of the course is dedicated to Speaking & Listening: fully in line with the requirements of the new Programme of Study and reflecting the Secondary National Strategy’s push for equal classroom time for the teaching of S & L, Reading and Writing skills.
• Includes CD-ROM containing editable worksheets (suitable for differentiation).
• Full coverage of level 1 functional skills standards required at KS3.

Table of Contents:
Unit 1 The Novel
1.1 Team Hughes
1.2 Marvellous Manod
1.3 Mystery up the Mountain
1.4 Don’t Count Your Chickens
1.5 The Power of Paintings
1.6 Paintings are like mutagen
1.7 Looking from the wrong angle
1.8 The Perfect Crime?
1.9 Zebras are not impossible
1.10 Writing a Review
Unit 2 Drama
2.1 Fair is foul and foul is fair
2.2 Who, What, When?
2.3 The bell invites me …
2.4 This dead butcher and his fiendlike queen…
2.5 Where the place?
2.6 It will have blood they say; blood will have blood
2.7 The multitudinous seas incarnadine
2.8 Double, double, toil and trouble
2.9 He can report
2.10 The time is free
Unit 3 Poetry
3.1 ‘The Lesson’
3.2 ‘Turpin’s Rant’
3.3 ‘During Wind and Rain’
3.4 ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’
3.5 ‘If thou must love me …’
3.6 ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’
3.7 ‘Mariana’
3.8 ‘Half Caste’
3.9 ‘Human Beings’
3.10 Creative Response
Unit 4 Moving Image
4.1 Exploring sound
4.2 Exploring images
4.3 Exploring camera
4.4 What is it all about?
4.5 Exploring structure
4.6 Your narrative
4.7 Storyboarding a section of your film
4.8 Translating from film into writing
4.9 Writing a section of your film
4.10 Self and peer assessment
Unit 5 Speaking and Listening
5.1 Rules, rules, rules
5.2 Home versus school
5.3 The big debate
5.4 Airs and graces – reciprocal talk
5.5 Global gamble
5.6 I have a dream – Martin Luther King
5.7 Just a minute
5.8 It’s my life
5.9 I’m in charge
5.10 Student choice
Unit 6 Writing (1) argue, persuade, advise
6.1 Gathering information
6.2 Persuasive leaflets
6.3 Comparing persuasive texts
6.4 Planning your leaflet
6.5 Writing your leaflet
6.6 Animals in Adverts
6.7 Problem Page
6.8 Noah’s Ark
6.9 Making a speech
6.10 Sink or swim?
Unit 7 Writing (2) inform, explain, describe
7.1 The real me
7.2 Information texts
7.3 Planning an interview
7.4 Writing a good paragraph
7.5 Sharing your findings
7.6 Writing the report
7.7 Let me explain
7.8 My time capsule
7.9 How it works
7.10 You be the judge
Unit 8 Multimodal texts
8.1 Exploring key concepts
8.2 Exploring print-based travel texts
8.3 Exploring travel podcasts
8.4 Creating travel podcasts
8.5 Exploring travel moving image texts
8.6 Creating a moving image travel text
8.7 Exploring travel websites
8.8 Creating a travel website (1)
8.9 Creating a travel website (2)
8.10 Reviewing key concepts
Unit 9 Research and Presentation
9.1 Asking the questions
9.2 Locating information
9.3 Research skills
9.4 Make a Note
9.5 Concept mapping
9.6 Talking about it
9.7 Planning a Documentary
9.8 Getting it right
9.9 “Multicultural Britain” goes live!
9.10 Reviewing Performance

About the Author(s):
All the authors are experienced classroom practitioners. Linda Hill is a former Head of English and is now a freelance English consultant and OFSTED inspector; Zoe Livingstone is the lead English advisor for Slough LEA, and also works across Bracknell Forest and Hillingdon LEAs; Saira Sawtell is Head of English at Budmouth Technology College, and was the regional winner in the 2006 Outstanding New Teacher category; Anita Spires is an English consultant at Slough LEA; Margaret Ryan is Assistant Head and Head of English at Counthill School in Oldham; and Pat Woolfe is a former Head of English and now an English consultant for Oldham LEA.

Readership:
Teachers