English Puzzles for KS3/KS4

Rob Apperley and Gill Colley

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• Ideal to use as starters
• Suitable for all abilities
• Encourages discussion

Engage your students

Finding ways to motivate students and to get them to think for themselves can be difficult. English Puzzles for KS3/KS4 is designed to help students think laterally and analytically. Ideal for use with students who lack motivation, the resource contains over 60 activities of the following types:

• Word puzzles
• Visual puzzles
• Number puzzles
• Shape puzzles
• Historical puzzles
• Open-ended puzzles
• Picture puzzles
• Riddles
• Optical illusions
• Tricks with words.

Flexible use

The activities could be used:

• as starters
• as an introduction for a specific teaching point
• as discussion points for group work
• to encourage peer group interaction
• in after-school clubs
• for out-of-school learning
• for competitions or end-of-term quizzes.

All provided on one CD-ROM, English Puzzles for KS3/KS4 is sold with a full site licence, so everyone in your department can benefit.

Help students enjoy and achieve

Aimed at KS3 and KS4/GCSE students, the activities can be tackled by learners of all abilities. Often the path to the solution is not structured or specified; some puzzles have more than one correct answer. The activities can therefore help to develop dialogue between students and between student and teacher, and foster analytical thinking as well as healthy competition and a welcome sense of enjoyment. Even students who are normally disengaged can be readily involved – and even enthused.

Ready-to-use resources

Each activity is:

• referenced to the 2008 National Curriculum at KS3 and KS4
• available as a worksheet to print out and distribute to students
• available as a presentation to display on an interactive whiteboard
• accompanied by teacher’s notes and answers where appropriate.

Full support for staff

English Puzzles for KS3/KS4 includes full teacher’s guidance for delivering the activities in the classroom. The material can readily be used by non-specialist teachers or during cover lessons.