KS3 – Extended Reading List (All available from school library)  

Lord of the Rings trilogy -   J .R.R. Tolkien

The War of the Worlds - H. G Wells 

Iron Man – Ted Hughes 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain 

Lord of the Flies – William Golding 

Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll 

The Secret Garden – Frances Hogson Burnett 

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 

Animal Farm – George Orwell 

Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian

 Boy – Roald Dahl

 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Useful websites and online resources for students of English 

A word of warning: these sites and links were all functional at the time of posting, but it cannot be guaranteed that web addresses will not change. Sites and resources rarely disappear entirely; if a link does not work, try a Google search. 

www.thepaperboy.com

• This is a gateway to thousands of newspapers around the world.

www.themagazineboy.com

• Sister site to paperboy but allowing access to international magazines.

www.guardiancentury.co.uk

• This is The Guardian’s archive and contains a wealth of articles from 1899-1999.Type in key dates (or the day after) for useful resources.

www.pbs.org/greatspeeches

• A speech archive.

www.education.bl.uk

• This British library site gives access to pictures, biographies, text and spoken records of historical events.

www.englishonline.co.uk

• Try going online to the fruit machine on this site

www.learn.co.uk

• This site has a whole variety of resources to support the English National Curriculum. Media analysis is a strong strand of the KS4 curriculum so this site contains useful resources and lesson ideas. The site contains some on-line lessons which students will enjoy.

www.teachit.co.uk

• This site contains activities designed to help students engage with the media. Sections on investigating magazines, newspapers etc are useful and offer resources as well as teaching ideas.

www.englishbiz.co.uk

• Aimed at UK GCSE students.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu

• Hundreds of language- based ‘how to’ guides and quizzes based on higher level texts.

http://literature.britishcouncil.org

• is the British Council’s subject gateway for literature

www.bibliomania.com

• A collection of online texts

www.bbc.co.uk/videonation

• A collection of video extracts

www.englishonline.co.uk/freesite_tour/resource/wordlab/collapser.html

• Collapser is a utility to turn any text into a sorted list at the click of the Go! button. You can use any text, including material from a web page or a word processed document, to produce activities that give fascinating insights into vocabulary and grammar.

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

• Hot Potatoes is a utility which enables you to author 6 different types of interactive activity: Quiz; Match; Mix; Cloze; Crossword; Sequence

http://www.inspiration.com/productinfo/inspiration/index.cfm 

• Inspiration is a concept mapping tool which enables you to set up frameworks such as brainstorms, storyboards, mind maps for students to complete (or they can create them from scratch themselves).

 Other sites:

 www.eduseek.com

www.english-to-go.com

www.webenglishteacher.com

www.newi.ac.uk/englishresources

www.english-teaching.co.uk

www.onestopenglish.com

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english/