Summary:
GCSE ENGLISH FOR CCEA TEACHER'S RESOURCE accompanies GCSE ENGLISH FOR CCEA, a student's resource that is tailored to the new CCEA GCSE English specification for 2003 onwards.

GCSE ENGLISH FOR CCEA TEACHER'S RESOURCE provides full support for the teacher with helpful guidance on how to teach all aspects of the new specification. It also offers a wealth of additional materials, extension activities and coursework ideas. Timesaving photocopiable worksheets and OHTs are provided, allowing for the possibility of whole-class as well as individual student work.

All these elements are included with the purpose of ensuring that teachers have no difficulty in fully preparing students for all the requirements of the new CCEA GCSE English specification.

GCSE ENGLISH FOR CCEA TEACHER'S RESOURCE is written by a team of experienced examiners, authors and teachers, who all recognise and understand the demands of every element of the new specification.

• Provides full support and guidance to teachers on how to implement the new specification in the classroom.
• Accompanies GCSE ENGLISH FOR CCEA, a student's resource tailored to the new CCEA GCSE English specification for 2003 onwards.
• Offers a wealth of additional materials including photocopiable worksheets and OHTs, extension activities and coursework ideas.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
1 The purpose of this resource
2 The assessment objectives
3 Assessing examination performance
4 The changes to the 2005 specification
5 Developing cross-over coursework assignments
PAPER 1
SECTION A Reading: Response to a literary prose text
1 Understanding character
2 Using of empathy
3 Appreciating setting
4 Evaluating the writer’s craft
Foundation tier sample paper mark scheme
Higher tier sample paper mark scheme
SECTION B Writing to review, analyse and comment
1 Discursive and expositional genres
2 Connectives
3 Samples of students' essays
4 Writing opening paragraphs
5 Exploring and analysing text
6 Using writing frames
Foundation tier sample paper mark scheme
Higher tier sample paper mark scheme
PAPER 2
SECTION A Writing to inform, explain and describe
1 Using different text forms
2 Samples of different text forms
Foundation tier sample paper mark scheme
Higher tier sample paper mark scheme
SECTION B Reading: Response to non-fiction and media texts
1 A series of worksheets
2 A planning matrix in use
3 Two approaches for comparing texts
4 Extension tasks
Foundation tier sample paper mark scheme
Higher tier sample paper mark scheme
APPENDIX 1 English and English Literature course planner
APPENDIX 2 Annotated exemplar scripts and related material
APPENDIX 3 Updated past papers and mark schemes
APPENDIX 4 Essential words
APPENDIX 5 Useful adjectives

About the Author(s):
John Andrews, Ellen McVea, Len Quigg and Pauline Wylie are all experienced examiners.
John Andrews, the series editor and Ellen McVea were also members of the English Working Group that produced the English Programme of Study for Northern Ireland.
Kate O'Hanlon is an English Adviser for the Southern Education and Library Board and Len Quigg is the Vice-Principal of the CAI. Pauline Wylie is the Head of English at Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College, Noreen Doran is Head of Media Studies and an English teacher at Shimna College and Ellen McVea is the Vice-Principal at Shimna Integrated College.

Readership:
Teachers