**Instructions ** Cut out the five punctuation cards and place them in front of you. On the next page, you will be given a range of phrases and sentences. Each is missing a particular punctuation mark. Place each sentence / phrase underneath the correct punctuation card. Example: If the sentence reads: ‘Andys car had a flat tyre,’ then this sentence should be placed under the ‘apostrophe mark’ card.

Improve your learners’ reading skills with this skimming and scanning exercise.

A two page PPT which includes: the poem, 3 tasks based on the poem and a PEE paragraph questions for KS3 learners to answer.

A one lesson PPT for learners which shows them how to answer both Unseen Poetry questions. At the end of the PPT, the learners then have 45 minutes to complete their practice test. *Please note: some of the information on this PPT was sourced from free poetry powerpoints on TES. Thankyou for sharing your work.

Using the poems First Ice and Farewell My Love, this three lesson PPT is designed to help students to plan and answer Question 1 & 2 of Unseen Poetry. Please note that some of the information on the slides were sourced from other PPTs on the internet. Thank you for sharing your work with the teaching community.

This is a lesson based on pages 12 - 23. This PPT contains tasks that I have either created myself or that I have sourced from FREE PowerPoints off TES. Thank you for sharing your resources on TES and allowing me to create this lesson.

An A3 poster which will help students in knowing what to include in their Q1 exam question response.

This PPT gives an overview of the Unseen Poetry exam. The students are then shown a marking guide for Q1 and will use this to mark three student’s responses: Grade 5 to Grade 9. This lesson was created using my own ideas and other ideas/resources from free PPTs on TES and the CGP Unseen Poetry Guide. Thankyou for sharing your work with the TES community.

A great lesson starter to get learner’s to recall the key quotes from the poetry anthology.

3X wall display posters to put up in the classroom. Poster with all 15 poems on, poet and date they were written Poster containing the assessment objectives Poetry Anthology poster

How to write a newspaper article How to format the article What to include in the article Newspaper article task

A lesson designed for KS2.

A fifteen question multiple choice quiz. Students will be given a each from each poem and must write down on the white board which poem it is from. Answers are given on the PPT once they have answered the question. I also have an alternative quiz with other key quotes from the anthology which you can download for free: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetry-anthology-power-and-conflict-quotes-quiz-12636653

A five question reading task with answers. The text itself is a case study taken from the Comic Relief website. Topic: Food Banks / Food Poverty

A PPT and worksheet that I used to introduce the KS3 class to poetry. I have started off with an easy poem and then throughout the lesson taught them skills in how to analyse the poem. Some information contained in this slide has been taken from free resources available on TES. Thank you for sharing your resources.

This is a task that I have created. Students will use their skills to rewrite an informal letter into a formal letter.

How to read and annotate the text before moving on to answer the exam questions 1- 4.

A fun lesson starter to see how much students remember from chapters 1 - 15 .

This was originally made when this was a topic discussed in the daily papers. Students will research the subject and then will take part in a discussion. The purpose of the exercise is to be able to look at both sides of an argument - no matter how controversial the topic is.

A lesson introducing Unseen Poetry and what to expect in the exam paper. It explains to learners how to annotate a poem using the SMILE technique and they will analyse Plath’s poem ‘The Mirror.’ Please note: I created this PPT using mostly my own ideas, however, to create this lesson, I have also adapted/ pasted some information from other ‘FREE download’ poetry resources that I found on TES. Thankyou for sharing your work.