KS3 Language Laboratory (Hard copy + digital assets)

A pupil book with nine units of work for Years 7-9 organised around three key areas of the language curriculum: Literature and Language; Standard English; Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation. Each unit develops knowledge about language and how it works, encouraging exploration, reflection and metacognition. This is a much-needed intervention in the KS3 curriculum, ensuring a prominent place for rigorous language study that challenges pupils to be active, critical and creative in their own reading and writing.

Key Aspects

• Develops pupils’ understanding of how language works.
• Adds critical and creative depth to the language knowledge students bring from KS2.
• Adds substance to the light-touch language requirements of the KS3 National Curriculum.
• Draws on real-life examples of language in use in literature and the wider world.
• Encourages understanding of the choices available in all language use.
• Close language study develops broader skills of reading and writing.
• Includes video interviews with well-known writers from fiction and journalism.

Section 1: Literature and Language

• Writers’ Choices
• The Power of Voice
• Text Transformations

Section 2: Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation

• Evolving Language
• Newsdesk!
• The Language Laboratory

Section 3: Standard English

• Standard!
• Pride and Prejudice
• Skool Rools!

Additional Materials

Additional materials and audio files for KS3 Language Laboratory are included with this publication and will be added to your account when you buy it online. Go to My Account, then navigate to Our Downloads (if signed into an Educator or Overseas account) or My Downloads (if signed into an Individual Teacher or Private Individual account). 

Video interview material is available in the Publications Video Library. tSee pages 4-5 in KS3 Language Laboratory for details of these additional materials. 

KS3 Language Laboratory is part of EMC KS3 Curriculum Plus.