Senior Cycle English: Accuracy & Expression – 22-Week Exam Skills Programme

A complete writing-skills programme for Leaving Certificate students

This 36-page booklet is a fully structured, classroom-ready programme designed to tackle the most persistent Senior Cycle writing errors - the ones that weaken PCLM marks every single year.
Packed with explicit teaching, clear examples, and targeted practice tasks, this resource systematically improves student accuracy, fluency, clarity, and control in exam-style writing.

**What’s Included
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A full 22-week cycle of “Focus of the Week” lessons covering:
Commonly Misspelled Words
Authors, Titles & Capitalisation
Formal vs Informal Language
Sentence Variety & Fluency
Advanced Punctuation (colons, semicolons, dashes)
Quotation Integration
Clarity in Comparative Writing
Understanding Key Words in the Question
Improving Sentence Clarity (Parts 1 & 2)
What Poetry Questions Are Really Asking
Referring Back to the Question (Parts 1 & 2)
Paragraphing for Clarity (Parts 1 & 2)
Common Writing Errors & Usage Rules
Possessive Apostrophes (Parts 1 & 2)
Homophones (three full pages)
Comma Splices
Syntax & Sentence Flow
Commonly Confused Words
Direct Speech & Quotation Marks
Stronger Verbs for Dialogue
Stronger Word Choices
Cutting Wordiness & Dead Weight (Parts 1 & 2)
Common Exam Traps
Two Final Proofreading Challenges with a full model answer

The pack also includes a Texts & Authors Overview Page for students to fill in at the start of the year - perfect for keeping spellings, titles, poets, and modes consistent.