To Kill a Mockingbird: An Abridged Edition for Secondary Students

Upgraded 2025 Edition:To Kill a Mockingbird – An Abridged Version
Fully Classroom-Ready: Teach Harper Lee’s Classic with No Planning Required

Teach with Confidence
This fully classroom-ready abridged version of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is ideal for secondary school teachers. It requires no planning and makes one of literature’s most powerful stories accessible to all students. This resource helps teachers engage learners, build confidence with challenging texts, and deliver lessons immediately in any classroom.

Why Teachers Choose This Resource

Inclusive and accessible for English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners, students with special educational needs (SEN), and lower-ability or struggling readers

Ready-to-teach lesson

Simplified language preserves key ideas, themes, and moral complexity

Perfect for printable or digital use in secondary classrooms

What’s Included

37 pages of simplified text for secondary school readers

104 pages of interactive, differentiated exercises ready for immediate classroom use

7 pages explaining historical and social context in clear, accessible language

Detailed answer booklet for easy marking

A New Kind of Abridgment
This edition makes the novel’s themes explicit, allowing students to fully engage with the moral and social issues of the story. Part of the Back to Basics series, it is an intelligent, practical, and inclusive teaching resource that ensures teachers can deliver engaging lessons with no planning required and no student is left behind.

Includes PDF and Word versions.

Earlier feedback has been addressed in this 2025 upgraded edition.