Checkpoint Ready: The Complete Course (25 Lessons + Practice Papers) — Cambridge Lower Secondary Checkpoint English

Helps with: the whole Cambridge Checkpoint English course for Year 9: reading and writing, fiction and non-fiction, with practice papers.

Checkpoint Ready teaches every question type on both Checkpoint papers – Paper 1 (non-fiction) and Paper 2 (fiction), reading and writing – in four blocks that build from the basics to timed exam practice.

• Block 1 · The Checkpoint Toolkit (Lessons 0–3): a starting-point check, how Checkpoint works, punctuation and sentence structure for effect, and a short timed starter paper with a debrief.
• Block 2 · Non-fiction Reading (Lessons 4–9): retrieval, word meaning, the 4-mark language question, structure, the 40-word summary, viewpoint – ending with a timed Section A paper.
• Block 3 · Non-fiction Writing (Lessons 10–17): recount, article, letters, speech, report and review, then a timed Section B and a lesson to fix the slips that cost marks.
• Block 4 · Fiction (Lessons 18–24): character, figurative language, narrative structure, openings, dialogue and endings, a timed story and a final improvement lesson.

Every lesson includes: an original text at a challenging level, with straightforward questions · a different team game each lesson, designed to work in the classroom or online · model answers shown clean first (students judge them), then labelled · core, support and challenge tasks · detailed teacher notes on every slide, with timings and answers.

Bundle-only extra: two full practice papers in the real exam format – Paper 1 (Non-fiction) and Paper 2 (Fiction) – each with an insert, a question paper and a detailed mark scheme.

What you get: 28 lesson slide decks (PowerPoint) · student booklets for every block, plus the Lesson 0 check (Word) · four teacher answer books · Checkpoint at a Glance (two-page guide to both papers) · two practice papers with mark schemes.

Launch offer: use code READY10 for £10 off until 31 March 2027.

Want even more exam practice? Get this complete course plus the Checkpoint Practice Pack of 12 more original exam papers with full mark schemes – 14 practice papers in total – in Checkpoint Everything for £59 (worth £93).

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