Student Book (A Bridge to GCSE English) - Softcover

Give your students a flying start to GCSE English!

Make a smooth transition from Key Stage 3 to GCSE. Designed to help students develop the skills and knowledge they will need for exam and controlled assessment success, A Bridge to GCSE helps you align your KS3 curriculum to the new GCSEs in English, English Language and English Literature.

With a particular focus on tackling new topics such as unseen poetry or spoken language, and on building controlled assessment skills, A Bridge to GCSE English gives you the tools to make the end of Key Stage 3 fun, challenging and a firm foundation for GCSE.

Pick and choose from six mini GCSE-style units designed to build students' understanding of GCSE topics and their familiarity with the styles of task required at GCSE:

1. Reading Creative Texts
2. Creative Writing
3. Poetry
4. Shakespeare
5. Spoken Language
6. Reading Non-fiction
7. Writing Non-fiction.

Each stimulating double-page in the student book is supported with a lesson plan and further resources in the teacher guide.

Sarah Darragh is an experienced Head of English and a senior examiner in Literature for a leading Awarding Body. She is the author of several educational titles for both GCSE and A Level English Language and Literature.

Phil Darragh is an experienced English teacher and Head of Department who has taught English GCSE and A Level for eighteen years.

John Parry has taught English in comprehensive schools in Yorkshire for almost twenty years. He is also an experienced examiner for a leading Awarding Body.