New Windmills Collections KS3 – serie

A collection of stories from other cultures and traditions. The stories have been chosen for their suitability for GCSE pupils. Each one is supported by information about the author and the cultural context of the story, as well as activities and suggested coursework assignments.

This collection of stories is for key stage 4. Each genre includes a pre-twentieth century story and tales by twentieth century writers. Genres include: Horror, Crime and Detection, Ghosts and Mystery, Love, Science Fiction. Each section includes activities for comparison work as well as suggestions for student's own creative writing.

This entertaining collection of short stories contains something for everyone. The stories include the unlikely, the bizarre, the embarrassing and the plain revolting. Meet: David who is embarrassed about his home-made fairy underpants until he discovers their hidden powers Monty Quayle and his admirers with their monstrous unwanted Valentine cards the giant flea which terrorises the London Underground Lucy Beck and her battle with a typewriter that answers back and many more...

This collection of short stories is full of surprises, with a range of unexpected endings and strange happenings. Everybody has heard of the 'Silver Wave', the ghost wave that comes at night and only on the full moon tide. They say that only a fool or the devil would dare to ride it. But Josh is determined to prove that he is not chicken. Will he be the first to ride the Silver Wave and survive? Willard Ambruster is a bully who loves to play practical jokes on other children. But when he starts to pretend that City Cemetery is haunted, he finds himself the victim of his own cruel sense of humour West Oldfield Road Sunday Team (WORST FC) really are the worst football team in the Sunday League. They're so bad their dads don't even bother to fight on the touchline anymore. Dan Craddock is determined to change all that, but will he succeed?

This lively collection of literary non-fiction contains extracts and activities for exploring and comparing letters, biography, autobiography, journals, reportage, diaries and speeches, all written at different periods in time. Age 12+The New Windmill Literature File provides photocopiable activities to help you link Voices in Time and other popular New Windmills to Framework objectives and approaches to learning and teaching. See The New Windmill Literature File for more information.

This collection spans cultures as diverse as South Africa, India, New Zealand and Northern Ireland. The stories enable students to investigate a wider range of genres, compare first and third person accounts, and explore different story structures.

These outstanding stories enable students to investigate and compare the features of different genres and how authors conform to or deviate from established conventions.

Grouped by genre, this collection of short stories introduces students to a range of fiction genres. Each group includes an introduction to the genre, an example of pre-20th century fiction and reading and writing assignments - helping students explore the characteristics of each genre.

A New Windmill Book of Very Short Stories contains a collection of very short stories from a range of genres chosen to interest and appeal to students at Key Stage 3. Some of the stories are written by well-known authors, such as Paul Jennings, Jan Mark, Susan Price and Ray Bradbury. Others are by new authors. Each of them can be read in less that 10 minutes and offers and example of a well-structured and complete text. The stories have been arranged into pairs so that students can compare writing on similar themes or in the same genre. The activities at the end of the book are based on identified sentence and text level objectives of the Framework for Teaching English. Speaking and listening objectives are also covered. The stories have been chosen to enable students to read for meaning, understand the author's craft and apply what they have learnt to their own writing. They ae also accessible stories that will arrest the attention and engage the imagination of all students across Key Stage 3.