Parallel Poems
A comparative approach for Key Stage 4

By Mike Royston
December 1996
Nelson Thornes UK
ISBN: 0748725741
132 pages
$34.00 paper original


Parallel Poemsis an anthology of paired poems for GCSE/Standard Grade courses. The resource includes a wide range of contemporary and pre-twentieth-century poetry, organised as 15 discreet units. Each unit includes: a pair of poems which are comparable in theme and/or form and style. Illustrations. Pre-reading activities designed to establish an appropriate context for students before they read the poems. Post-reading tasks, both spoken and written, to help students develop their own understanding of what they have read. Differentiated end-of-unit written assignments.

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