Key quotations from the play looking at how a small selection can be memorised and used for each theme and character.

Lesson to go with the poem.

Uses Brian Bilston´s poem “And Now for the Weather” and Ciaron Carson´s poem “Belfast Confetti” to explore how language devices and punctuation can be used for effect in writing. Useful for revision or introducing language and punctuation.

Various resources for CPE.

Assessment question and planning lesson. Taught for KS3 can be used for KS4.

Homework sheet / starter task to recall key information about the context of the play.

Lesson based on using commas.

Mini unit (3 weeks) on skills for approaching unseen Literature texts. Includes looking at comprehension, de-coding vocabulary, language, structure, paragraphing and evaluation. Useful as worksheets for intervention, cover, lessons or homework.

New-style reading and writing exam paper (2024)

A survey for students to complete about an unseen poem in order to break it down and plan some ideas.

Based on extracts from Cambridge Objective textbook and other C2 level resources from textbook and online. Includes a Use of English assessment and the following: p8-13 and 100-105 Idioms: Change Phrasal Verbs UofE: P1, 2, 3 Summarising Verbs and Nouns to adjectives Idioms: Tools Reading: P6 Passive Writing: Reports Unit 4 Change and Technology Unit 7 Passives

ESL powerpoint with ESL questions from previous papers and a short slide for each question with a teacher input. Students read the short teacher input as a class and then independently get on with the task,

Dual-coded PEZEL paragraph template with a sentence stem for each section and sized depending how much needs to be written in each part. Useful for KS3 students who are getting to grips with PEZEL.

15 homework tasks for the play.

x5 lessons: 1 - apostrophes 2 - commas 3 - semi colons 4 - parenthesis 5 - speech punctuation plus a final assessment to check understand of each of them at the end.

I have written an example opening to an essay question based on the play for students to mark.

Checklist with reminders for what to include in writing tasks.

x2 different extracts from the novel with GCSE Paper 1 style questions. Suitable for KS3 and KS4.

Paper 1 style questions with extract from the novel.

Extract and Paper 1 style comprehension questions based on the novel Tender by Eve Ainsworth.