Building Brilliant Vocabulary: 60 lessons to close the word gap in KS3

Build brilliant vocabulary to help close the word gap in KS3 English with ready-made vocabulary activities for 60 high leverage Tier 2 words and teaching guidance informed by evidence and research.

60 ready-made lessons and student worksheets to share with your department to build confidence in teaching vocabulary in KS3 to improve students conceptual knowledge and prepare for GCSE 91.

· Tackles high leverage Tier 2 words to help students understand challenging concepts.
· Supports and exemplifies good practice in systematic and explicit teaching of vocabulary with a teaching sequence for each word with student activity sheets using the words in a range of contexts.
· Unlocks learning and reduces workload with a bank of vocabulary activities which are easy to set for homework, starters or tutor time.
· Helps you show Ofsted evidence of a structured approach to teaching Tier 2 vocabulary.
· Author Katie Ashford is an English teacher, specialist in SEN and the teaching of reading.
· Adapt the resources to your needs: the flexible format means lessons can be taught as a full vocabulary intervention programme, or dipped into to fit your own schemes of work.
The student activity sheets and editable versions of the teacher notes can be downloaded from the Collins website: www.collins.co.uk/BuildingBrilliantVocabulary/download