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Unseen poetry

Explore our wonderful collection of unseen poetry resources, which will take GCSE English Literature and IGCSE students step by step through the process of discovering an unseen poem, from pre-reading and first reading activities to close textual analysis.

Help students to understand a poet’s use of language, and explore different poetic forms and techniques, as well as the structure of the poem (including caesura, enjambment and juxtaposition).

Consider the effect of different rhyme schemes and types of meter, including iambic pentameter or blank verse, and teach them to analyse the effect of rhyming couplets or poetic devices like onomatopoeia, assonance and sibilance.

With a range of printable lesson resources, worksheets and writing frames to build learners’ confidence with unseen poems, you’ll also find thoughtful lesson activities to help students to reflect on the ways a poet uses personification, metaphors and similes to present the speaker’s feelings.

If you are looking for unseen poetry questions, approaches to poetry comparison or practice exam questions for mocks and timed assessments, try our Unseen poetry teaching pack, written by Teachit’s very own poet in residence, Trevor Millum. This 150-page booklet includes exam questions for all the GCSE exam boards, including AQA, Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas, and provides a complete scheme of learning for teaching unseen poems.

 

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'Work and Play' sheet 1
Free
5
1 reviews
Main Subject
English
Category
Unseen poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Resource type
Worksheet
Author
Ted Hughes
Authors
Ted Hughes
Time period
Post-1900
File
87.79 KB
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'Rhododendrons'
5
1 reviews
Main Subject
English
Category
Anthology poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Unseen poetry
Resource type
Student activity
Exam preparation
Author
Ted Hughes
Authors
Ted Hughes
File
110.94 KB
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37 KB
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'Work and Play' sheet 3
Free
Main Subject
English
Category
Anthology poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Unseen poetry
Resource type
Student activity
Author
Ted Hughes
Authors
Ted Hughes
File
21.62 KB
Free download
'The Tractor'
5
1 reviews
Main Subject
English
Category
Anthology poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Unseen poetry
Resource type
Student activity
Exam preparation
Author
Ted Hughes
Authors
Ted Hughes
File
151.68 KB
Free download
File
69.5 KB
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'Cock-Crows': various activities
Main Subject
English
Category
Anthology poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Unseen poetry
Resource type
Student activity
Exam preparation
Author
Ted Hughes
Authors
Ted Hughes
File
56.5 KB
Download
File
175.21 KB
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'Night of the Scorpion' - questions
Main Subject
English
Category
Unseen poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Resource type
Worksheet
Time period
Post-1900
File
23 KB
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File
26.97 KB
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'Night of the Scorpion'
5
5 reviews
Main Subject
English
Category
Unseen poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Resource type
Worksheet
Time period
Post-1900
File
17.91 KB
Free download
File
27.5 KB
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War poem word sort
5
1 reviews
Main Subject
English
Category
Unseen poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Resource type
Student activity
Author
Rupert Brooke
Author
Wilfred Owen
Genre
World War One
Time period
Post-1900
Title
The Soldier
File
27.56 KB
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File
36.5 KB
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Lighthouse mystery
5
3 reviews
Main Subject
English
Category
Unseen poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Resource type
Worksheet
Teaching ideas
File
50.44 KB
Free download
File
39.5 KB
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T.S. Eliot match up
5
3 reviews
Main Subject
English
Category
Unseen poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Resource type
Worksheet
Starter/Plenary
Revision
Author
T.S. Eliot
Time period
Post-1900
Genre
Modern
File
63 KB
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File
74.96 KB
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Havisham - pulling the poem apart
5
2 reviews
Main Subject
English
Category
Unseen poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Resource type
Student activity
Time period
Post-1900
Author
Carol Ann Duffy
File
47 KB
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File
30.66 KB
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Creative close-reading activities for five Blake poems
5
8 reviews
Main Subject
English
Category
Unseen poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Resource type
Worksheet
Author
William Blake
File
44 KB
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File
101.72 KB
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Questions on 'Still I Rise'
5
6 reviews
Main Subject
English
Category
Unseen poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Resource type
Worksheet
Author
Maya Angelou
File
48.83 KB
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File
25.5 KB
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Key poetry terms
5
6 reviews
Main Subject
English
Category
Unseen poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Resource type
Student activity
Revision
File
184.14 KB
Free download
File
49 KB
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'Night of the Scorpion' - true and false
Main Subject
English
Category
Unseen poetry
Poetry
Reading
Literature
English
Resource type
Worksheet
Revision
Time period
Post-1900
File
31 KB
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File
84.87 KB
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