Everything you need to teach Young Skins for the Leaving Cert English Comparative Study (Higher Level) in one download: the Student Textbook your class reads from, the Teacher Guide you prepare from, and the free Text Suitability Guide alongside them.

Seven stories, one town: Colin Barrett’s Glanbeigh, an invented north Mayo town of estates, pubs and thin work, where young men measure themselves in loyalty, drink and violence. It is the prescribed list’s only short-story collection and home-turf Irish material, treated across this set as one text with a shared world, so a class can evidence every point at least twice. The bundle covers all four Higher Level modes (Cultural Context, Literary Genre, Theme or Issue, and General Vision and Viewpoint), and every comparison point is partner-agnostic, so the set works whatever texts you pair the collection with.

What’s included (three PDF files)

• Student Textbook (29 pages): the collection analysed in continuous prose students can read independently. Each mode chapter opens with a “Reading for this mode” primer and “What the examiners ask”, works through the stories’ key moments with close readings and technique tables, and closes with a sample comparative paragraph the student completes with their second text, “Setting this text against others” notes, and a comparison grid: the Young Skins column filled in, the Text 2 and Text 3 columns left for their own combination. Original, SEC-style practice questions for every mode end the book. Licensed for the purchasing teacher to copy for their own students.
• Teacher Guide (24 pages): your preparation, done. Sensitive-content and practical notes before you teach, including which story to preview before deciding; the collection read for the teacher, from the stories and their structure to the outlook; a key-moments bank and a quotation and reference bank, every entry attributed to its story; each mode broken down into what examiners reward, where the collection is strong, what to teach and the errors to pre-empt; a workable teaching sequence; notes on running the textbook’s grids, sample paragraphs and practice questions in class; coupling guidance for choosing partner texts; assessment essentials (PCLM marking, the PEAL paragraph shape, timing); and question-angle banks drawn from recent SEC papers.
• Text Suitability Guide (2 pages, free): the at-a-glance overview: synopsis, themes, sensitive content, and the collection’s strengths in the comparison modes at both Higher and Ordinary Level.

The comparison grid rows are identical across every Prescribed Shelf comparative Student Textbook, so if your other texts are covered too, the three books line up row by row for your exact text combination.

Buy the bundle and save on the separate prices. Written by a practising teacher.