Fire and Ice 2 for second and third year students completes the Fire and Ice series for Junior Cycle English. Book 2 continues to fire the imagination and provide inspiring content, while also providing preparation for the different forms of assessment that will be encountered in second and third year leading to the Junior Cycle Student Award (JCSA).

Key Features of the book:

• Rich and varied content is arranged into five interesting and inspiring themes
• Five genre chaptersare designed to accompany and support the study of short story, poetry, drama, novel, film and oral literacy
• Learning outcomes are referenced for teachers and translated into easy-to-follow spidergrams
• Lessons are framed by a skill-based learning intention, `What I Will Learn'
• Each collection builds the skills required to complete end-of-chapter oral and written tasks
• The PIE strategy (point, illustrate, explain) helps in answering questions comprehensively
• Carefully chosen video and audio material is integrated into lessons and is accessible in your free eBook
• Clear success criteria are provided for all summative tasks and many other tasks throughout the collections
• A detailed assessment chapter includes guidance and advice as well as valuable sample Reflection Notes, Assessment Tasks and exam answers

FREE My Collection of Texts booklet: Includes a booklet for the final four texts - from which two will be chosen for the CBA2 - with information and advice about how to present these texts.

There is a FREE eBOOK with this textbook! Your unique code is on the inside front cover.

TEACHER RESOURCES

• The Teacher's Resource Book provides valuable additional material to encourage active learning and group work.

• The FREE eBook blends all the digital resources available for the textbook in one place: videos/podcasts; audio of poems and stories in the book; weblinks and YouTube references.

All of the digital material and supporting digital resources for teachers are available on GillExplore.ie, our smart, reliable and easy-to-use resources platform.

This is book 2 in Fire And Ice .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 350 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Gill .

Pauline Kelly taught in Marian College, Dublin 4 for many years and has extensive experience as an English examiner, advisor, author, conference speaker and trainer. Deirdre Murphy teaches in Newbridge College, Co. Kildare and is a co-creator of free Junior Cycle English resources for RTE Radio 1's Documentary on One series. Tomas Seale teaches in St Mark's Community School, Dublin 24 and is a co-creator of free Junior Cycle English resources for RTE Radio 1's Documentary on One series. Mary-Elaine Tynan teaches in Mount Temple Comprehensive, Dublin 3 and has co-created resources for Junior Cycle with many organisations, including RTE Radio 1, Documentary on One, RTE television and the BAI. Deirdre Murphy teaches in Newbridge College, Co Kildare. Tomas Seale teaches in St Mark's Community School, Dublin 24. Both Deirdre and Tomas are co-authors of the best-selling Junior Cycle English series, Fire and Ice. Frank Cooney is PT Modern Studies at St Ninian's High School in Kirkintilloch. George Clarke is PT Modern Studies at Culloden Academy. Pauline Kelly is Modern Studies teacher at Notre Dame High School in Glasgow.