CIE Poetry Anthology 2026-28 Songs of Ourselves for IGCSE Valid for exams in 2028, but not 2029 or beyond! Cambridge International - Literature in English 0475 Anthology of Poetry - Paper 1 Section A - Songs of Ourselves Volume 1 All 15 poems and a page for notes for each - PDF Aphra Behn, ‘Song: Love Armed’ Sujata Bhatt, ‘A Different History’ William Blake, ‘The Chimney-Sweeper’ Elizabeth Brewster, ‘Where I Come From’ Boey Kim Cheng, ‘Report to Wordsworth’ Gillian Clarke, ‘Lament’ Kevin Halligan, ‘The Cockroach’ Seamus Heaney, ‘Follower’ Liz Lochhead, ‘Storyteller’ Charles Mungoshi, ‘Before the Sun’ Katherine Philips, ‘A Married State’ Alexander Pope, From ‘An Essay on Man’ Carol Rumens, ‘Carpet-weavers, Morocco’ William Shakespeare, ‘Sonnet 18’ Judith Wright, ‘Hunting Snake’

Paper 1 and Paper 2 Section B Q5 mark scheme. Great to use for self/peer assessment and quick teacher feedback. Broken down by AO; easy to change grade boundaries as required.

Student friendly GCSE English Literature mark scheme - 30 marks - no SPAG. For a mark scheme with SPAG, see my other uploads. Criteria is phrased as ‘Can I’ questions to assist with reflection. Fully editable Publisher document.

CIE Poetry Anthology 2026-27 Songs of Ourselves Volume 2 Part 3 for IGCSE Cambridge International - Literature in English 0475 Anthology of Poetry - Paper 1 Section A - Songs of Ourselves Volume 2 PArt 3 All 15 poems and a page for notes for each - PDF Nancy Fotheringham Cato, ‘The Road’ Sarah Jackson, ‘The Instant of My Death’ Arun Kolatkar, ‘The Bus’ Julius Chingono, ‘At the Bus Station’ Imtiaz Dharker, ‘These are the Times We Live in’ Elizabeth Jennings, ‘The Enemies’ Sampurna Chattarji, ‘Boxes’ W H Auden, ‘The Capital’ Arthur Yap, ‘an afternoon nap’ Elizabeth Smither, ‘Plaits’ Elizabeth Daryush, ‘Children of Wealth’ Thomas Love Peacock, ‘Rich and Poor or, Saint and Sinner’ Musaemura Zimunya, ‘A Long Journey’ Stevie Smith, ‘Touch and Go’ George Szirtes, ‘Song’

Student friendly GCSE English Literature mark scheme - 24 marks - unseen poetry. AO1 and AO2 only. Criteria is phrased as ‘Can I’ questions to assist with reflection. Fully editable Publisher document.

IBDP English A: Language and Literature Greta Thunberg BOW booklet 19-page student booklet, guiding through a range of Grete Thunberg speeches, delivered between 2018 and 2019. In Powerpoint format, so it can be edited easily. Few pages of analytical activities for each speech included. Some learner portfolio tasks at the end.

IBDP English A: Language and Literature body of work - Ben and Jerry’s ice cream Simple body of work Powerpoint, featuring key contextual information about the brand, recent controversies, audiovisual adverts, and links for additional reading. Very much designed for students to carry out additional independent research. The BOW assumes students have already been taught how to analyse audiovisual texts, and does not feature any support for this.

IBDP English A: Language and Literature body of work - Uğur Gallenkuş digital collages. This body of work includes introductory slides, which cover context behind the artist, samples of his work, and links to further reading. There is also a 14 page student workbook that guides students through analysing photographs, and encourages evaluation of the body of work.

Student friendly GCSE English Literature mark scheme - 30 marks - features AO1 with elements of comparison. Criteria is phrased as ‘Can I’ questions to assist with reflection. Fully editable Publisher document.

Can be used for OCR/AQA/Cambridge/IBDP etc - taster session introducing students to symbolism through the use of Sylvia Plath’s poetry. Perfect for Y10/Y11 pre-6th form taster days!

Student friendly GCSE English Literature mark scheme - 30 marks + 4 marks for SPAG. Criteria is phrased as ‘Can I’ questions to assist with reflection. Fully editable Publisher document.

A collection of 11 unseen poetry questions from Edexcel IGCSE past papers. Great tool for revision - instructions for students at the top of the doc. All questions are on one document, along with the exam series and the simple mark scheme table. Refer to the Edexcel website for indicative content.

IGCSE Literature in English assessment / marking grid. Student friendly format. Language is exactly the same as IGCSE Cambridge. PDF and Publisher versions attached.

Full lesson and contextual reading resource for ‘Twice’ by Christina Rossetti. OCR A Level English Literature but AOs can be removed and adapted to other exam boards.

Full lesson for IGCSE Cambride Literature in English Poetry - 2023 exam Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 4 The lesson could easily be stretched to 2 or 3 hours, depending on how you choose to deliver the activities.

CIE Poetry 2023-25 Songs of Ourselves Volume 2 Part 4 Literature in English Cambridge International IGCSE The anthology contains the following poems and spaces for annotations: ‘The Forsaken Wife’ ‘After’ ‘A Leave-Taking’ ‘I Find No Peace’ ‘I Hear an Army’ ‘Rooms’ ‘Love in a Life’ ‘Waterfall’ ‘Verses Written on Her Death-bed’ ‘Rhyme of the Dead Self’ ‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples’ ‘Nearing Forty’ ‘Now Let No Charitable Hope’ ‘From an Essay on Criticism’ ‘The Character of a Happy Life’ Editable word doc and PDF file are included.

How to approach the exam - two styles of essay writing broken down. Model essay to assess. Do I know my texts well enough? Revision tasks.

OCR A Level English Literature student friendly mark scheme Suitable for Drama and Poetry Pre-1900 Simplified the format to one page - easy to give quick feedback, self and peer assess. One grid ticked is one mark. 30 marks available in total.

Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 4 2023 Literature in English exam. Anthology contains all 15 poems and space for annotations. The anthology has been updated as per the latest CIE amendment - James K Baxter’s ‘The Bay’ has been replaced with Boey Kim Cheng’s ‘The Planners’ Margaret Atwood, ‘The City Planners’ Boey Kim Cheng, ‘The Planners’ Thom Gunn, ‘The Man with Night Sweats’ Robert Lowell, ‘Night Sweat’ Edward Thomas, ‘Rain’ Anne Stevenson, ‘The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument’ Tony Harrison, ‘From Long Distance’ W H Auden, ‘Funeral Blues’ Thomas Hardy, ‘He Never Expected Much’ Fleur Adcock, ‘The Telephone Call’ Peter Porter, ‘A Consumer’s Report’ Judith Wright, ‘Request To A Year’ Charles Tennyson Turner, ‘On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book’ Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ozymandias’ Stevie Smith, ‘Away, Melancholy’

AQA English Lang Paper 2 Section A Revision Mat / Knowledge Organiser

KS3 Reading, Writing and Speaking&Listening Assessment Grids - based on CIE English Language IGCSE Criteria Great resource for international schools, or schools that follow CIE IGCSE First Language English Seperate grids for all three year groups: your bundle includes nine grids in total - three per year group The ‘grades’ are Foundation, Developing, Secure and Expert - editable to fit your school’s criteria