The Vocabulary Expander: KS3 Progression to GCSE is a vocabulary-centred approach to developing essential GCSE English skills for KS3 students in Years 7 to 9. Studies have repeatedly shown that the highest-achieving students have the widest vocabulary.

This book supports students’ development of academic vocabulary with 421 tasks and around 2800 practice questions to support progression to GCSE English Language and Literature. Packed with engaging and precisely focused tasks and games, it offers comprehensive coverage of all the assessment objectives for these two GCSE subjects, using extracts from well-known texts which students will study at GCSE. These include Shakespeare, 19th and early 20th century texts, poetry and plays.

The Vocabulary Expander: KS3 Progression to GCSE supports the development of Reading, Writing and Speaking and Listening skills and provides in-depth coverage of:

• essential grammar and spelling rules
• inference skills and how to select quotations for reading tasks
• literary vocabulary, including key GCSE terms like figurative language, structure, evaluation and context
• analysing language and form in Shakespeare and 19th-century texts using academic and formal language and register to enhance writing
• developing complex vocabulary for creative fiction and non-fiction writing

Each section ends with a 40-mark test to check understanding of key vocabulary and concepts.

Writing exemplars and reading stems offer precise guidance on best practice.