**Light up your students passion for poetry with the amazing work of Kae Tempest. ** In this unit, students will be encouraged to use a decoding tool to access themes and imagery. There are pre-reading questions to engage with the big ideas, a chance to try their hand at an analytical essay, and some ideas fro creative responses. Five poems are included in the resource. Presented in a 40 slide PowerPoint format with a printable PDF for students to annotate, this unit is sure to entice even the most reluctant of poetry readers. Perfect for advanced KS4 classes and KS5 students.

Want to embark on a class reading of ‘All the Light We Cannot See’? Noticing fear in the eyes of your students? This study guide has you covered. Chapter by chapter summaries. A few inbuilt tasks. Key quotes, themes, character analysis. It’s all in here. All 90 pages… Share it with your groups to make sure that your class time is spent exploring, discussing, and analysing, rather than soothing your learners’ fevered minds! It’s a great novel once that initial barrier has been overcome.

Help your students stride through unfamiliar poems using the STRIDE Decoding tool. This resource has versions of the STRIDE tool to help all students to access the ideas, language, and intent of the poem. By structuring their initial response using key headings, students can feel less overwhelmed and more able to articulate the technical elements of a poem and link those with themes and effect. You will receive a PowerPoint and PDF with diferentiated levels of the STRIDE tool. One has sentence starters, one has leading questions, and one is blank for more confident students.