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Literary Extracts - Booklet 2 | KS3 and KS4 Teaching Resource

Written by Douglas Wise | 4 October, 2025

 

Click on the button above to download the second booklet of short fiction extracts to read and explore. Once again, I’ve used a mixture of new and established authors. List below…

  1. Atmosphere, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  2. The Tell, by Amy Griffin
  3. There are Rivers in the Sky, by Elif Shafak
  4. The Bright Sword, by Lev Grossman
  5. We Used to Live Here, by Marcus Kliewer
  6. Earth, by John Boyne

The structure is the same: inference, retrieval and vocabulary tasks, and a creative writing task at the end. Snips below...

Click here to access the first booklet.

Hope the stuff’s useful –

Doug

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