Wider Reading Lists
Want a head start on
Year 8?
Research and reading arranged according to: • School subjects • Key words and topics • Fiction and non-fiction
*These lists are aspirational: you are not required to buy any of these for your subjects.
Key words and topics: Activate 1 acids and alkalis, reproduction, electricity, magnetism, adaptions and inheritance, periodic table, health and lifestyle, energy, metal and acids, ecosystem processes, separation techniques, the Earth, motion and pressure
Activate 2: Student Book by Philippa Magnet Man Gardom Hulme et al http://www.coolmagnetman.com/ma gindex.htm The Periodic Table Book: A Visual Encyclopedia of the Elements by DK Energy Explained by EasiAsPi on Youtube Magnetism (Flowchart Science) by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y Louise Spilsbury h34BYMVTxs
Puberty, Reproduction and Birth by BBC Bitesize: Oaka Books KS3>Physics>Electromagnetism and Magnetism A Journey into Adaptation with Max Axiom, Super Scientist: 4D an BBC Bitesize: KS3>Physics>Electricity Augmented Reading Science How do we separate the seemingly Experience (Graphic Science 4D) by inseparable? - Iddo Magen for TED Ed Agnieszka Biskup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q
8Ent5CXhfY Chemistry for Kids | Elements, Acid- Fiction Base Reactions and Metals Quiz Book for Kids by Dot Edu Michael Vey: The Electric Collection by Richard Paul Evans
Websites The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
What is an ecosystem? Biology for All Breathe by Sarah Crossan FuseSchool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e GG7hyx_HlA
Keywords and topics: Heroes and villians, Gothic fiction, The Tempest, Dystopian Fiction (1984, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies extracts), dramatic monologues and soliloquys, modern novels, nature as the beast, writing to argue, opinion based articles
Fiction The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
The Tempest: The Graphic Novel by Dystopian Novels William Shakespeare (Edited by Clive Divergent by Veronica Roth Bryant) Plain British Text or original text available Forest 404 Drama Podcast on BBC Modern Novels Sounds
The Trap by Alan Gibbons The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury (Short Story) My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece by Annabelle Pitcher The Skin Thing by Adrian Van Young (Short Story) Teacher’s Dead by Benjamin Zephaniah Film
WWI Poetry Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Certificate 12 (also a series of The Poetry of World War One by the books by Ransom Riggs) Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/arti Websites cles/70139/the-poetry-of-world-war-i Monologue vs Soliloquy Gothic Fiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4 qACoMK1ypE Coraline by Neil Gaiman Exploring the theme of nature versus Gothic Short Stories (Tales of Mystery & nurture in The Tempest, BBC Bitesize The Supernatural) by David Blair https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/clips/zs chfrd
Key words and topics: Fractions, decimals, percentages, algebra, geometry (circles, area and 3D shapes), ratio, proportion, rates of change, statistics and data, place value, ordering and rounding.
YouTube Mathematics for KS3: 10-Minute Tests - Book 1 (including Answers) (CGP KS3 MathAntics: various explanations on Maths) Paperback – 11 Sep 2015 how to solve math problems, including fractions, algebra, decimal places. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors Kindle Edition by Matt Parker Non-Fiction Fiction The Math Inspectors: Story One - The Case of the Claymore Diamond: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Volume 1 by Daniel Kenney, Emily Juster Boever The Square Root of Murder by Ada KS3 Maths is Easy: Ratio, Proportion & Madison Rates of Change: In-depth revision advice for the new KS3 curriculum by How2become
Key words and topics: Social change in Britain, Jack the Ripper, Victorian crime, population explosion of 1750, agricultural revolution (food crises in Britain), The Great Exhibition, Industrial Revolution, slum conditions, working conditions, workhouses, cholera mystery, New Liberalism, turning points in Modern Britain, what makes an event significant, suffrage, Emily Davison, winning the vote, creation of the NHS, Margaret Thatcher, Magna Carta, international conflict causes of WW1, Balkans, trench warfare, Schleiffen Plan, Battle of the Somme, Recruitment, Home Front, WW2, Dunkirk, Blitz Spirit, D Day, Pearl Harbour, anti-Semitism, Kindertransport, Final Solution, Cold war, Berln Blockade, Truman Doctrine and Marshall Aid, Intro to Cuba, USA vs USSR
A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England Girl 38: Finding a Friend by Ewa by Michelle Higgs Jozefkowicz
Suffragette: The Battle for Equality by When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Essential David Roberts and Lauren Laverne | Modern Classics) Paperback – 15 Jun 31 May 2018 2017 by Judith Kerr (Author)
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain We Were Heroes: The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, a World War II Paperback by John Boyne
Soldier by Walter Dean Myers Websites Things a Bright Girl Can Do Paperback by Sally Nicholls Holocaust survivor testimonials: https://www.holocaust.org.uk/survivors The Great Exhibition: Poem by William Makepeace Thackeray Jack the Ripper: British Library Article by Judith Flanders The Blackest Streets by Sarah Wise https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens victorians/articles/jack-the-ripper
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Diary of Anne Frank
Key words and topics: flooding, drought, thirst, future, cities, climate change
DVD This is What Climate Change Looks Like in Alaska—Right Now by DJ Tyson for Planet Earth - Complete Series [2006] Pacific Environment David Attenborough https://www.pacificenvironment.org/t Fiction his-is-what-climate-change-looks-like- in-alaska-right-now/ Waterlog by Roger Deakin Costing the Earth: The Future of the Websites Countryside https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ NASA Global Change: Vitals Signs of b0b42z8w the Planet https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ After the Flood: Kevin Crossley-Holland on BBC Young People need a seat at the Soundshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds table of UN climate change /play/b015pb04 negotiations by Kazi Ateea https://www.pacificenvironment.org/t Parched Lands- Thirsty Communities: his-is-what-climate-change-looks-like- Harvesting the Rain in Rajasthan on in-alaska-right-now/ BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p ‘You did not act in time’: Greta 03gj2mf Thunberg’s full speech to MPs https://www.pacificenvironment.org/t Non-Fiction his-is-what-climate-change-looks-like- in-alaska-right-now/ Imagining Urban Futures: Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them by School of Urban Studies and Planning Carl Abbott
Key words and topics: character styles and types (archetypes, stereotypes, genre, personification) devising (storyboard, conflict, resolution, stimulus, instillation, tableaux), fairy tales (spontaneous improvisation, in the round, morals, modernisation, interpretation), guided choices, Living with Lady Macbeth, tension, World Theatre (Brecht, Comedia Dell Arte, Noh, Stanivslavsky), Forum theatre
Macbeth by William Shakespeare to Greek Theatre, The World of Commedia dell’Arte, Akira Matsui, Macbeth The Graphic Novel: Original Hanoi Water Puppet Show, An Intro to Text (Unabridged, British English) by Brechtian Theatre, Naturalism, Legs on William Shakespeare, Clive Bryant, et the Wall and Raw- Beautiful Noise al. Dance Performance) Living with Lady Macbeth by Rob John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6 kx6mzVD7h0&list=PLnKa4- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the 2Q0drnIfuH5YXkGLF5rSleSgiHr&index=8 Night –Time (Playscript) by Mark &t=0s&safe=true Haddon Spring Concert 2018 - Y12 GCSE National Theatre: All About Theatre by Drama Students 'Living with Lady National Theatre (Author) Macbeth' by St Louis Grammar School Kilkeel Playful Plays: Plays and drama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= activities for children and young woav99plG_w&safe=true people Paperback – 23 Oct 2014 by David Farmer The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - working on the spectrum The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the by the National Gallery Brothers Grimm: The Complete First https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k Edition by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm 2bV75ITXJw&safe=true Grimm, et al. Theatre Talk: The Curious Incident with Websites the Dog in the Night-Time by CUNY TV Theatre Traditions Playlist compiled by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s CAC Arts Programs (including An Intro vdl_ee22-w&safe=true
Key words and topics: Scratch (programming and coding), animation, storyboard (linear, symbols) web making mediator, Excel, Video making and editing, algorithm, data, Networks and Binary, Hardware, Software, website design, pseudocode, pixel, frame, rendering, transition, filters, track, pitch, HTML, HTTP, Tags, URL, Web browser, web server, Banner Ad, Bookmark, Cookie, CSS, decomposition, abstraction, algorithm, pattern recognition, flow chart, logical reasoning, computational thinking, decision, terminator, process, input/ output, annotation.
Non-Fiction Fiction
Coding for Kids: Python: Learn to Code Girls who code: The Friendship Code with 50 Awesome Games and #1 by Stacia Deutsch, Reshma Saujani Activities by Adrienne B Tacke) Warcross by Marie Lu Build Your Own Website: A Comic Wildcard (Warcross 2) Hardcover – 20 Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress by Sep 2018by Marie Lu (Author) Nate Cooper and Kim Gee Guinness World Records Gamer's The Lego Boost Idea Book: 95 Simple Edition 2018 by Guinness World Robots and Hints for Making More! by Records Yoshihito Isogawa YouTube
iPhone application developer... and
6th grader: Thomas Suarez TEDxManhattanBeach
Key words and topics: Adverts (jingle, underscore, voice-over, target market, slogan, genre), Bond (composing), Musical Futures (performing and ensemble), Reggae (Syncopation, Ensemble, Balance, Bass line hook),Caribbean music Songwriting (verse, chorus, bridge, structure), The Blues (12 Bar Blues, Slavery), The elements of music (melody, rhythm, harmony, instrumentation, timbre, texture, tempo, silence), Foley (sound design, samples, sound effects, music technology.
Non-Fiction Charlie Higson Young Bond collection 5 books set. (Blood Fever, Double or Who Was Bob Marley? (Who Was...? Die, Hurricane Gold, Silverfin, By Royal (Quality Paper) by Katie Ellison Command) by Charlie Higson The Art of the Blues: A Visual Treasury YouTube of Black Music's Golden Age by Bill Dahl Making of: James Bond Skyfall Soundtrack by Sony Music Canada Songwriting Without Boundaries: Lyric https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0 Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice YGbcfXF1Gs&safe=true by Pat Pattison "Skyfall" by Adele - Production with Websites Paul Epworth by Mix with the Musicians Songs you probably didn’t know were https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ written by Ed Sheeran by John Milton tSqKLfQ3E0&safe=true https://www.nme.com/blogs/songs- How to Make a Good Commercial | ed-sheeran-wrote-for-other-musicians- Directing a SpecAd by CreatorUp, 1960647 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s What is Foley? https://www.sound- pgtD1zFVxk&safe=true ideas.com/Page/what-is-foley.aspx The Very Best of Blues - Unforgettable Fiction Tracks compilation by Jazz and Blues Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v hJV9dDrp_4&safe=true
Food Preparation and Nutrition
Key words and topics: sustainability, production process, survey, target market, bread and cake making, quality control, costs, production, raising agents, rubbing method, preservation, risk assessment, cross-contamination, food labelling, packaging materials, Fair-trade, food waste, reduce, reuse, recycle, planning, science.
Fiction Podcast
The Wombles by Elisabeth Beresford Think: Sustainability is a SoundCloud and Nick Price podcast https://soundcloud.com/think- After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross sustainability
The Perfectly Wonky Carrot by YouTube: Newmany #Food4theFuture Non-Fiction FOOD FOR THE FUTURE - A Short Let's Eat: Sustainable Food for a Documentary by European Bank for Hungry Planet by Kimberley Veness Reconstruction and Development Farm to Table: The Essential Guide to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B Sustainable Food Systems for Students, CL1UI1qRXM&safe=true Professionals, and Consumers by Darryl Why do we need to change our food Benjamin and Lyndon Virkler system? By Un Environment Websites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V cL3BQeteCc&safe=true Chocolate Quiz on Fairtrade Foundation Website This Is a Sustainable Fish By Prevention https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/ Magazine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6 ps0truARKs&safe=true
Key words and topic:s
Spanish: food, holidays, past tense, technology French: clothes, holidays, sports, daily life, technology, festivals, celebrations, customs, traditions
Non-Fiction France
Zoom Espanol 1 by Zoom español 1 Nicholas Paperback – 7 Mar 2011 Student Book Paperback – 17 Feb by by Rene Goscinny (Author), Jean- Isabel Alonso de Sudea (Author), Jacques Sempé (Author), Anthea Bell María Isabel Isern Vivancos (Author), (Translator) Abigail Hardwick (Author) The Silver Donkey Paperback – 3 Nov Allez 1 Allez: Student Book 1 by 2008 by Sonya Hartnett (Author), Corinne Dzuilka-Heywood, Yvonne Laura Carlin (Illustrator) Kennedy, et al.
KS3 French Complete Revision & Practice with Audio CD (CGP KS3 Spain Languages) by CGP Books A World Between Us Kindle Edition by KS3 French Workbook with Answers: Lydia Syson (Author) Workbook Pt. 1 & 2 by CGP Books
KS3 Spanish Complete Revision & Practice with Audio CD (CGP KS3 Languages)by CGP Books
KS3 Spanish Workbook with Answers
(CGP KS3 Languages) by CGP Books
Fiction
Mr Men & Little Miss...: Mr. Feliz (Mr Happy) by Roger Hargreaves
Key words and topics: Citizenship (fairness, justice, rights, responsibilities, stereotyping, equal opportunity, making a difference, identity), British values (Britishness, democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, tolerance of different faiths), social issues (What is health? Healthy eating, mental health, body image, politics and elections, careers, Democracy, Fairness, Justice, Rights, Responsibilities, Stereotyping, Equal Opportunity, Making a difference, Identity ), presentations (physical, linguistic, cognitive, social and emotional, content, projecting voice, gesture, stance, engage, context, organise, explain, persuade, validity, bias, flair, source, evidence, emphasis)
Non-Fiction Political Change: Definition & Explanation by Study.com TED Talks: The official TED guide to https://study.com/academy/lesson/politic public speaking: Tips and tricks for al-change-definition-lesson-quiz.html giving unforgettable speeches and Video and Quiz presentations by Chris Anderson Leaders and parties, Voting , Coalition Positively Teenage: A positively brilliant Government, Young People and guide to teenage well-being by Nicola Politics on Politics UK Morgan http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/ uk-now/read-uk/politics-uk Blame My Brain: the Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed by Nicola Morgan Fiction
Politics for Beginners by Louie Stowell , Dumplin' by Julie Murphy Alex Frith, et al. Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer This Book Will (Help You) Change the Niven World by Sue Turton Alice Skinner Website (Illustrator) How do teens think about body Propaganda Backtalk Poscast image, beauty and bullying? 3 Individual Liberty (Raintree perspectives from around the world by Perspectives: Exploring British Values) Stephanie Lo https://blog.ted.com/how- by Catherine Chambers do-teens-think-about-body-image-beauty- and-bullying/ Key words and topics: Warm up, Cool down, Safety, Stride, Technique, Pacing, Speed, Transfer of weight, Flight, Height, Momentum, Acceleration, Angle of release, Dribbling, Shooting, Tackling, Heading, Tactics, Attacking and Defending, Decision Making, Covering, Delaying, Tactics, pivoting, cross over, non-dominant, interception, attack, defence, Flight, height, tuck, star, control, landing, body tension, vault, straddle, through vault, handspring, attack, defence, marking, intercepting, blocking, goal side, Set Plays – back line/side line/centre pass, Court Linkage, Double Mark, Batting, Bowling, Fielding, Catching, Over arm throw, Under arm throw, Long barrier, short barrier, Support play, Fielding roles, Communication
Non-Fiction Soccer: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Score, Dribble Past the Other Team, Rounders (Know the Game) by and Work with Your Teammates (3 National Rounders Association Books in 1) by Dylan Joseph ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Kids' Websites Handbook by Clive Gifford | 4 Apr 2019 How Pep Guardiola Improves His Players by Tifo Football Cricket's Strangest Matches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B Extraordinary but True Stories from TJYFlOzu7k&safe=true Over a Century of Cricket by Andrew Ward Gymnastics for beginners - Scoring and techniques by Sport Singapore 40 Inspiring Icons: Fantastic Footballers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K Meet 40 game changers by Jean- BbYL_rZ8ZQ&safe=true Michel Billioud and Almasty Podcasts The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False That Peter Crouch Podcast Ninesby Michael Cox The Olympics 2012 Podcast by Will Table Tennis: Skills * Techniques * Perry, Eleanor Oldroyd and the BBC Tactics by Jenny Heaton Radio 5 live team bring you the stories from London 2012 and the 2014 Winter Netball: Skills. Techniques. Tactics by Olympics in Sochi. Anita Navin https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ p02nrwzy/episodes/downloads
Key words and topics:
Portrait artists, Portrait, light direction, first hand observation, facial expressions, tone,, texture, shape, mono-printing, collage, mixed media, portraiture, research and own opinion, proportions, features, accurate, Pablo Picasso, Van Gogh, Food, Pop Art, Wayne Thiebauld, tone, texture, 3D, Sculpture, colour, found materials, recycling, steam punk, etching, chine-collé, line, shading, pattern
Non-Fiction Wayne Theibauld: Biography and Works Portrait Artist of the Year: A Little Book http://www.artnet.com/artists/wayne- of Portraits by Tai-Shan Schierenberg , thiebaud/biography Kathleen Soriano, et al by Karen Hull https://www.ted.com/search?q=sculp ture Pop Art (Basic Art)by Klaus Honnef Chine Collé: definition and examples Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference https://www.moma.org/collection/ter for Artists by Mark Simon ms/20 Delicious Metropolis: The Desserts and Van Gogh: Stories about the Artist Urban Scenes of Wayne Thiebaud by https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/st Wayne Thiebaud and Kelly Purcell ories Youtube Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2019 15 Things You Didn't Know About Artist Profiles and Videos Picasso by A lux.com https://www.skyartsartistoftheyear.tv/p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K ortrait-profiles/ AhKliHimVs&safe=true What is Found Art? Websites https://www.cassart.co.uk/blog/what_ is_found_art.htm Coloured pencil (Realistic Series) http://www.artnet.com/artists/wayne- thiebaud/
Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture
Key words and topics: speaker, resisters, L.E.D (light emitting diode), P.C.B (printed circuit board), capacitors, motor, I.C. (integrated circuit), soldering, current, ohms, voltage
Non-Fiction KS3 Design & Technology Workbook: Workbook (Without Answers) by CGP How Do Speakers Work? By NPS Physics Books https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U NYSFIQcRnE&safe=true Youtube
Subwoofers, Woofers, and Tweeters as Making Of Speakers - Factory Tour Fast As Possible by Techquickie #PART1 by How To https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z hvXWpRmhvM&safe=true _AHN2Bo78A&safe=true
The Little Inventors Handbook by Websites Dominic Wilcox, Katherine Mengardon Ohm's Law by Bitesize The Odditorium: The tricksters, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ eccentrics, deviants and inventors p04xpd0n whose obsessions changed the world
Illustrated Timeline of Inventions &
Inventors (Visual Timelines in History) by Kremena Spengler
Make: Design Your Own Circuits by Charles Platt
Getting Started with Soldering by De Vinck, Marc
KS3 Design & Technology Study Guide (CGP KS3 D&T) by CGP Books
War, peace, love, hate, environment, creation, evolution, pollution, holocaust, animal testing, hunting, life after death, values, ethics, ethical theories, duty, consequence, natural law, Christian
Non-Fiction what-we-believe-about-life-after- death-daniel-ogilvie-at-ted2013/ Animal Testing: Life-Saving Research vs. Animal Welfare (Perspectives Flip Natural Law Theory: Crash Course Books: Issues) by Lois Sepahban Philosophy #34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r The Boy Who Followed His Father into _UfYY7aWKo&safe=true Auschwitz: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Jeremy Dronfield War & Human Nature: Crash Course World History 204 Survivors: True Stories of Children in the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2 Holocaust by Allan Zullo NIgqS47m5k&safe=true Websites Ethics Cartoon by BrainPop What was the Holocaust? by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z Newsbeat PsoFhUDLuU&safe=true https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/16 Non-Human Animals: Crash Course 690175 Philosophy Ban the import of hunting trophies #42https://www.youtube.com/watch? https://www.theguardian.com/environ v=y3-BX-jN_Ac&safe=true ment/2019/apr/12/ban-the-import-of- hunting-trophies Podcasts Life on Earth BBC Documentary (David Attenborough explores the wildlife and Pickle: A Philosophy and Ethics landscape that inspired Charles Podcast for Kids Darwin's theory of evolution.) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ b01qgr55
Understanding what we believe about life after death: Daniel Ogilvie at TED2013 by Ben Lillie https://blog.ted.com/understanding- Wider reading means researching around a topic. It is a really good skill to have and puts you one step ahead of your classmates. Keep coming back to these lists throughout the year and tick off any books you have read.
If you read for just 30 minutes each day, your reading level could put you a whole year ahead of someone that never reads for pleasure!* Remember readers are our future leaders!
*The Reading Agency Website