Assessment Topics & Tasks for KS3
Reading
Reading
Reading
Writing
Writing
Writing
AF2: PEE
&
AF6:
Writer’s
viewpoint
AF3: Read
between lines
&
AF5: Writer’s
choice of
language
AF4: How text
is organised
&
AF7: Context
AF1: Produce
imaginative texts
&
AF5: Vary
sentences
&
AF7: Vary vocab
AF2: Task, Audience &
Purpose
&
AF3: Organise texts
effectively
&
AF4: Paragraphs
AF2: Task,
Audience &
Purpose
&
AF7: Vary
vocab
Exam
Writing
or S&L
7
Drama
‘2
Weeks…’
or
‘Samurai’
Ballads
‘The
Highwayman’,
‘Ballad of
Hillsborough’
‘Lefty & Ned’
8
Novel
‘Boy in
the...’
Or ‘The
Tulip
Touch’
Pre 20th
Century
Fiction
‘Sherlock
Holmes’ or
‘Oliver
Twist’
Poetry
Comparative
Sonnet 19
‘Hawk
Roosting’
‘The Eagle’
WJEC Unseen
Poetry
9
1st topic
Other
Cultures
Novel
‘Burn My
Heart ‘
Beverley
Naidoo
Shakespeare
‘A
Midsummer
Night’s
Dream’’
Memories &
Moments
‘Autobiography’
Roald Dahl
Pupils’ own
1st topic
Knowledge About
Language
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Novel
‘Holes’
‘Pig Heart
Boy’
‘Goodnight
Mr Tom’
May
Myths &
Legends
Non-Fiction
Adverts
Articles
Short
Stories
from Other
Greek
Cultures
st
1 topic
‘In The
Mix’
Shakespeare
Imaginative
Journalism
Novel
‘Much Ado
Writing
Linked to Information
‘Stone
About
Language
& Ideas
Cold’
Nothing’
devices
GCSE
‘The
Setting
Newspaper/magazine
Curious
characterisation
articles
Incident of
5 senses
the Dog In
Narrative
the Night
Gothic horror
time’
and suspense
May
Mock
GCSE
exam
paper:
reading
and
writing
WJEC
June/July