They - Siegfried Sassoon - Comprehension Activities Booklet!

World War One Poetry - Comprehension Activity Booklets Bundle!

These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of a range of World War I poems. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout teaching, or for exam revision or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives - suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate. Included are 14 booklets, based on the poems: -Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est -Wilfred Owen - Anthem for Doomed Youth -Wilfred Owen - Exposure -Wilfred Owen - Futility -Wilfred Owen - Strange Meeting -Siegfried Sassoon - Aftermath -Siegfried Sassoon - Base Details -Siegfried Sassoon - Suicide in the Trenches -Siegfried Sassoon - They -Laurence Binyon - For the Fallen -Philip Larkin - MCMXIV -Isaac Rosenberg - Break of Day in the Trenches -Rupert Brooke - The Soldier -John McCrae - In Flanders Fields The resources are provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers). Activities within each booklet include (amongst many others): ‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’ ‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’ ‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’ ‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’