Kingdom Second Edition responds to the requirements of the Junior Cycle English specification and examinations, and will assist your students in reaching their full potential.

The tried and trusted approach with new features and content based on teacher feedback and the Junior Cycle examinations.

• More than 60% new material across the series – a mix of fresh content and popular favourites.
  
• Interact questions provide opportunities for active learning.
• Inviting Understand questions now provided with every text, making all texts
  accessible to students of all levels.
  
• Increased scaffolding in both Portfolios, such as templates, success criteria, starter
  sentences and hints.
• Learning outcomes and aims provided at the beginning of each lesson, for ease of
  planning and assessment.

The Portfolios

• Both Portfolios support student learning, giving them opportunities to write in different genres, draft and redraft their work and answer questions on new and studied texts. The Kingdom 1 Grammar Primer features grammar exercises to reinforce and consolidate learning.

• Increased scaffolding for all Portfolio tasks – templates, success criteria, hints and checklists.
• Scaffolding for Kingdom 1 Explore questions cements the 3up answering strategy and gives students the skills to formulate answers.
• Scaffolded exam-style questions in Kingdom 2 prepare students for their written examination.