Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- (-) All subject categories (416)
- English (87)
- Language (51)
- Literature (36)
- Reading (32)
- Reading skills (30)
- Poetry (17)
- Language analysis (13)
- Topical and seasonal (13)
- Drama (12)
- Anthology poetry (11)
- Comprehension (6)
- Shakespeare for key stage 3 (6)
- English (5)
- Form and structure (5)
- Writing for purpose and audience (5)
- Writing skills (5)
- Christmas (4)
- Inferring attitudes and bias (4)
- Sports (4)
- Writing different text types (4)
- Unseen poetry (3)
- Arguments and persuasive texts (2)
- Classroom management (2)
- Comprehension (2)
- Drama and role-play (2)
- Festivals and celebrations (2)
- History (2)
- Independent reading (2)
- Modern Britain (2)
- Modern drama (2)
- Newspapers (2)
- Prose (2)
- Punctuation (2)
- Spoken language (2)
- Understanding purpose and audience (2)
- William Shakespeare (2)
- Writing poetry (2)
- Art (1)
- Autobiography and biography (1)
- Awards and certificates (1)
- Biographies and autobiographies (1)
- Book-based resources (1)
- Character study (1)
- Citizenship (1)
- Comparing poems (1)
- Comparing texts (1)
- Customs and festivals (1)
- Fact and opinion (1)
- Geographical applications and skills (1)
- Grammar, spelling and vocabulary (1)
- Grammar and vocabulary (1)
- History (1)
- Inference (1)
- Information texts (1)
- Language analysis (1)
- Language development (1)
- Letters, postcards and invitations (1)
- Modern prose (1)
- Persuasive writing (1)
- PSHE and wellbeing (1)
- Research skills (1)
- Retrieval (1)
- Sports and games (1)
- Summarise the main ideas (1)
- Templates (1)
- Understanding a poem (1)
- Using evidence (1)
- Vocabulary (1)
Key stage
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (62)
- Pre-1900 (9)
- William Shakespeare (9)
- Post-1900 (5)
- William Shakespeare (5)
- Carol Ann Duffy (2)
- Heritage (2)
- History (2)
- History (2)
- Modern (2)
- Richard III (2)
- T.S. Eliot (2)
- Tragedy (2)
- World War One (2)
- Anita Desai (1)
- Fasting, Feasting (1)
- Hamlet (1)
- Henry V (1)
- Joe Simpson (1)
- Macbeth (1)
- Macbeth (1)
- Othello (1)
- Othello (1)
- Reading (1)
- Roald Dahl (1)
- Roald Dahl (1)
- Robert Frost (1)
- Sonnet 116 (1)
- Touching the Void (1)
- Wilfred Owen (1)
Resource type
- Student activity (46)
- Teaching ideas (32)
- Worksheet (31)
- Form tutor (15)
- Game/quiz (15)
- Templates (13)
- Revision (11)
- Complete lesson (8)
- Exam preparation (8)
- Teaching tools and tips (5)
- Display/posters (4)
- Starter/Plenary (4)
- Teaching pack (4)
- Differentiated (3)
- Icebreaker (3)
- Presentation (3)
- Assessment (2)
- First lesson (2)
- Role play/debate/discussion (2)
- Video (2)
- Assembly (1)
- Homework (1)
- Intervention (1)
- Self-assessment (1)
Exam board
Special Education Need SEND
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.