Check the exact exam-year reading selection and edition
Distinguish compulsory poetry from a chosen Paper 3 option · Check the anthology volume and complete member selection · Keep bibliographic identification separate from text-specific study
Exam scope and assessment notes
0408 preparation for exam year(s) 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030. The assessment changes in 2028; follow the component and selected texts for your year. Original StudyForA teaching and practice, with fictional examples labelled. Other well-supported literary readings can be valid. Model answers are for self-checking and do not award Cambridge marks or grades. Full set-text reading and text-specific teaching, complete timed papers and qualified literature-teacher assessment remain unfinished. Coursework must be the candidate’s own work, assessed through the centre and moderated by Cambridge.
Before you begin
- Confirm your exam year and centre-selected full texts. Coursework and both papers are compulsory; private candidates cannot enter 0408.
Work on paper. Try each question before revealing help, and explain why your method works.
Quick readiness check
What should support a claim about a literary text?
What you will learn
- Distinguish compulsory poetry from a chosen Paper 3 option
- Check the anthology volume and complete member selection
- Keep bibliographic identification separate from text-specific study
Official reading lists by exam year · bibliographic tracker
- Use only the list matching your examination year and centre’s selected works.
- All fourteen historical 2025 Volume 2 poems have named teaching and four whole-selection workshops; SET-2025-5 links eighteen lessons. Three public-domain poems are printed; the eleven protected poems use complete linked primary readings. Qualified assessment remains unfinished. The Doll’s House, The Gold Watch, A Visit and Promenade have four lessons each; A Walk to the Jetty and In the Mountains have seven each, Mrs. Sen’s has six, and The Plantation and The Paper Menagerie have five each. Complete primary reading supports all nine taught historical members, including Mrs. Sen’s through its final paragraph and The Plantation through all four sections and its final dawn bird-call. In the Mountains uses the complete publisher transcription with automated-text, edition and access limitations explicit. A Walk to the Jetty follows the complete six-page retype through the final berth, with reader annotations and version differences kept separate. Words and full-selection workshops remain unfinished, so SET-2025-6 stays unlinked. Anowa has ten whole-play lessons for 2025–2026. The Cherry Orchard has a whole-play sequence for 2025–2027, and every 2026–2027 Volume 1 poem has teaching. All ten stories have teaching and full-selection workshops for the 2026–2028 Volume 2 option. Twelve compulsory 2028–2030 Volume 3 poems have teaching, while three members and all three complete poetry rows remain unfinished. Seven 2029–2030 Volume 3 story members have paired teaching, while three members and full-selection workshops remain unfinished and both complete rows stay unlinked. Crocodiles has twenty-eight lessons through all six chapters and full-book workshops; its three eligible complete option rows link teaching. It remains excluded from 2025–2027 coursework. Little Foxes has twenty-two lessons across all three acts and four whole-play workshops for 2027 only; its complete option links the sequence. Primary reading, qualified teacher assessment and full timed calibration remain separate requirements. Other selected works remain text-specific teaching gaps. Acquire and read the complete approved texts.
These are reading requirements, not reproduced literature, completed study guides or automatic reading-completion records.
2025
Choose at least one Paper 3 option. Paper 2 is unseen poetry.
Paper 3 · Fever Dream
[1] Read the complete centre-selected work in the correct edition; text-specific teaching is not yet available.
Paper 3 · Anowa
[1] Read the complete unabridged centre-selected play. Ten lessons cover the Prologue, all three phases, competing voices, work and enslavement, stagecraft and whole-play writing, with thirty staged tasks and ten original developed responses. Use the linked complete primary reading or your centre’s copy; the protected play is not reproduced here. This option is eligible for 2025 and 2026 only. Qualified teacher review and calibrated papers remain unfinished.
Paper 3 · In the Sea There are Crocodiles
[1] Read the entire unabridged centre-selected Howard Curtis translation. Twenty-eight lessons teach the Author’s Note and all six country chapters, with passage, whole-book essay, voice and retrieval workshops. All three complete 2025–2027 selected-work entries link this whole-book teaching pathway. Reading completion, qualified teacher assessment and calibrated full papers are not certified by these self-review exercises. Eighty-four staged tasks and sixty original developed-response models support reading, interpretation and revision. The protected book is linked, not reproduced; edition differences remain explicit. Lessons do not replace the complete selected work or qualified assessment.
Paper 3 · The Cherry Orchard
[1] Read the complete centre-selected unabridged play. Eighteen lessons cover all four acts, characters, dramatic methods, five real West-translation excerpts and whole-play essay practice. Translation wording may differ from your centre’s edition; qualified assessment and calibrated papers remain unfinished.
Paper 3 · Songs of Ourselves, Volume 2 · 2025 selection
[1] Historical 2025 option only. Prepare all fourteen poems if your centre selected this Paper 3 option. Teaching and practice are available for all fourteen 2025 prescribed poems, with four whole-selection workshops. Eighteen lessons provide fifty-four staged tasks and fifty-one original developed responses. The complete SET-2025-5 option links the sequence; the existing historical supplemental route remains available without adding another counted requirement. Complete primary reading, qualified assessment and full timed calibration remain separate requirements. All fourteen have named teaching and response practice, followed by four workshops. Three older poems are printed in full; the other complete primary readings are linked. Use the centre’s anthology for exact punctuation and layout. This is not the later Volume 1 or Volume 3 selection.
[2] 1. Australia 1970
[3] 2. The Spring
[4] 3. Coming
[5] 4. The Darkling Thrush
[6] 5. Stormcock in Elder
[7] 6. Parrot
[8] 7. At the Parrot House, Taronga Park
[9] 8. Eel Tail
[10] 9. Cetacean
[11] 10. Watching for Dolphins
[12] 11. The Storm-Wind
[13] 12. The Sea Eats the Land at Home
[14] 13. You Will Know When You Get There
[15] 14. The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean
Paper 3 · Stories of Ourselves, Volume 2 · 2025 selection
[1] Historical 2025 option only. Prepare all ten stories if your centre selected this Paper 3 option. Nine of the ten historical 2025 story members have original teaching and practice: The Doll’s House, The Gold Watch, A Visit and Promenade have four lessons each, A Walk to the Jetty and In the Mountains have seven each, Mrs. Sen’s has six, and The Plantation and The Paper Menagerie have five each. Together they provide forty-six lessons, one hundred and thirty-eight staged tasks and one hundred and one developed-response models. Complete primary readings support each sequence; check exact quotations and edition differences in the centre anthology. Words and full-selection workshops remain unfinished. The complete 2025 story option remains a content gap. The complete older Mansfield reading is supplied with edition limits; use the full centre anthology. Self-review does not award official marks.
[2] 1. The Doll’s House
[3] 2. The Gold Watch
[4] 3. A Visit
[5] 4. Words
[6] 5. A Walk to the Jetty
[7] 6. In the Mountains
[8] 7. Mrs. Sen’s
[9] 8. Promenade
[10] 9. The Plantation
[11] 10. The Paper Menagerie
1. For 2025, record your centre’s chosen Paper 3 option, complete member list where relevant, edition and the source used to verify it.
Compare after trying
A complete tracker names the correct-year option and full work or anthology selection, identifies the edition, and records its official source. It separately includes compulsory poetry where the cycle requires it.
Why this response fits
- The choice is a real preparation requirement, not merely a title remembered from a different year.
- This self-check does not certify that the learner has read or understood the work.
2026
Choose at least one Paper 3 option. Paper 2 is unseen poetry.
Paper 3 · Fever Dream
[1] Read the complete centre-selected work in the correct edition; text-specific teaching is not yet available.
Paper 3 · Anowa
[1] Read the complete unabridged centre-selected play. Ten lessons cover the Prologue, all three phases, competing voices, work and enslavement, stagecraft and whole-play writing, with thirty staged tasks and ten original developed responses. Use the linked complete primary reading or your centre’s copy; the protected play is not reproduced here. This option is eligible for 2025 and 2026 only. Qualified teacher review and calibrated papers remain unfinished.
Paper 3 · In the Sea There are Crocodiles
[1] Read the entire unabridged centre-selected Howard Curtis translation. Twenty-eight lessons teach the Author’s Note and all six country chapters, with passage, whole-book essay, voice and retrieval workshops. All three complete 2025–2027 selected-work entries link this whole-book teaching pathway. Reading completion, qualified teacher assessment and calibrated full papers are not certified by these self-review exercises. Eighty-four staged tasks and sixty original developed-response models support reading, interpretation and revision. The protected book is linked, not reproduced; edition differences remain explicit. Lessons do not replace the complete selected work or qualified assessment.
Paper 3 · The Cherry Orchard
[1] Read the complete centre-selected unabridged play. Eighteen lessons cover all four acts, characters, dramatic methods, five real West-translation excerpts and whole-play essay practice. Translation wording may differ from your centre’s edition; qualified assessment and calibrated papers remain unfinished.
Paper 3 · Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1 · 2026 selection
[1] Prepare all fourteen prescribed poems if this is your selected Paper 3 option. Eighteen lessons provide teaching for every member, close reading and evidence/retrieval workshops. The three full public-domain poems printed on the site do not replace the protected anthology. Use your centre-selected edition; teacher assessment and calibrated papers remain unfinished.
[2] 1. Childhood
[3] 2. Because I Could Not Stop for Death
[4] 3. One Art
[5] 4. Song: Tears, Idle Tears
[6] 5. My Parents
[7] 6. For Heidi with Blue Hair
[8] 7. Praise Song for my Mother
[9] 8. Follower
[10] 9. The Trees are Down
[11] 10. The Trees
[12] 11. Time’s Fool
[13] 12. A Quoi Bon Dire
[14] 13. Meeting at Night
[15] 14. Because I Liked You Better
Paper 3 · Stories of Ourselves, Volume 2 · 2026 selection
[1] Prepare all ten prescribed stories if this is your selected Paper 3 option. Teaching is available for all ten stories: twenty named reading and writing lessons plus four full-selection workshops. Complete reading and independently supported writing are still required. Read all ten in the centre-selected anthology, which is not reproduced in full. Self-check models do not award official marks; qualified teacher assessment and calibrated papers remain unfinished.
[2] 1. Death of the Laird’s Jock
[3] 2. George Silverman’s Explanation
[4] 3. The Nightingale and the Rose
[5] 4. The Copper Beeches
[6] 5. A Story of a Wedding Tour
[7] 6. The Shrinking Shoe
[8] 7. Gabriel-Ernest
[9] 8. A Warning to the Curious
[10] 9. Indian Summer of an Uncle
[11] 10. Lappin and Lapinova
1. For 2026, record your centre’s chosen Paper 3 option, complete member list where relevant, edition and the source used to verify it.
Compare after trying
A complete tracker names the correct-year option and full work or anthology selection, identifies the edition, and records its official source. It separately includes compulsory poetry where the cycle requires it.
Why this response fits
- The choice is a real preparation requirement, not merely a title remembered from a different year.
- This self-check does not certify that the learner has read or understood the work.
2027
Choose at least one Paper 3 option. Paper 2 is unseen poetry.
Paper 3 · A Man of the People
[1] Read the complete centre-selected work in the correct edition; text-specific teaching is not yet available.
Paper 3 · Little Foxes
[1] Read the complete unabridged centre-selected Lillian Hellman play. Twenty-two lessons teach all three acts of Little Foxes and four whole-play workshops, with sixty-six staged tasks and forty-eight original developed-response models. The complete SET-2027-2 option links this teaching for 2027; the existing supplemental route remains available without adding another counted requirement. Complete primary reading, qualified teacher review and full timed calibration remain separate requirements. The protected acting script is linked, not reproduced; printed-page and edition differences remain explicit. The lessons do not replace whole-play primary reading, the learner’s own writing or qualified assessment.
Paper 3 · In the Sea There are Crocodiles
[1] Read the entire unabridged centre-selected Howard Curtis translation. Twenty-eight lessons teach the Author’s Note and all six country chapters, with passage, whole-book essay, voice and retrieval workshops. All three complete 2025–2027 selected-work entries link this whole-book teaching pathway. Reading completion, qualified teacher assessment and calibrated full papers are not certified by these self-review exercises. Eighty-four staged tasks and sixty original developed-response models support reading, interpretation and revision. The protected book is linked, not reproduced; edition differences remain explicit. Lessons do not replace the complete selected work or qualified assessment.
Paper 3 · The Cherry Orchard
[1] Read the complete centre-selected unabridged play. Eighteen lessons cover all four acts, characters, dramatic methods, five real West-translation excerpts and whole-play essay practice. Translation wording may differ from your centre’s edition; qualified assessment and calibrated papers remain unfinished.
Paper 3 · Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1 · 2027 selection
[1] Prepare all fourteen prescribed poems if this is your selected Paper 3 option. Eighteen lessons provide teaching for every member, close reading and evidence/retrieval workshops. The three full public-domain poems printed on the site do not replace the protected anthology. Use your centre-selected edition; teacher assessment and calibrated papers remain unfinished.
[2] 1. Childhood
[3] 2. Because I Could Not Stop for Death
[4] 3. One Art
[5] 4. Song: Tears, Idle Tears
[6] 5. My Parents
[7] 6. For Heidi with Blue Hair
[8] 7. Praise Song for my Mother
[9] 8. Follower
[10] 9. The Trees are Down
[11] 10. The Trees
[12] 11. Time’s Fool
[13] 12. A Quoi Bon Dire
[14] 13. Meeting at Night
[15] 14. Because I Liked You Better
Paper 3 · Stories of Ourselves, Volume 2 · 2027 selection
[1] Prepare all ten prescribed stories if this is your selected Paper 3 option. Teaching is available for all ten stories: twenty named reading and writing lessons plus four full-selection workshops. Complete reading and independently supported writing are still required. Read all ten in the centre-selected anthology, which is not reproduced in full. Self-check models do not award official marks; qualified teacher assessment and calibrated papers remain unfinished.
[2] 1. Death of the Laird’s Jock
[3] 2. George Silverman’s Explanation
[4] 3. The Nightingale and the Rose
[5] 4. The Copper Beeches
[6] 5. A Story of a Wedding Tour
[7] 6. The Shrinking Shoe
[8] 7. Gabriel-Ernest
[9] 8. A Warning to the Curious
[10] 9. Indian Summer of an Uncle
[11] 10. Lappin and Lapinova
1. For 2027, record your centre’s chosen Paper 3 option, complete member list where relevant, edition and the source used to verify it.
Compare after trying
A complete tracker names the correct-year option and full work or anthology selection, identifies the edition, and records its official source. It separately includes compulsory poetry where the cycle requires it.
Why this response fits
- The choice is a real preparation requirement, not merely a title remembered from a different year.
- This self-check does not certify that the learner has read or understood the work.
2028
Prepare all 15 Paper 2 poems and at least one complete Paper 3 prose option.
Paper 2 · Songs of Ourselves, Volume 3 · compulsory poetry selection
[1] Prepare all fifteen prescribed poems for compulsory Paper 2. Teaching is available for 12 of the 15 compulsory poems. The remaining 3 members need verified reading, substantive teaching and practice; full-selection workshops and the complete selection remain unfinished. Use the exact anthology extracts and specified translations. The full three-year selection remains a content gap until every member and full-selection practice are taught; self-checking does not award Cambridge marks.
[2] 1. The Panther
[3] 2. A Blessing
[4] 3. Toroa: Albatross
[5] 4. Frog
[6] 5. #ExtinctionRebellion
[7] 6. The Sun Wanders, Searching for Shade
[8] 7. from Our Casuarina Tree
[9] 8. Fair Weather
[10] 9. O Earth
[11] 10. An Old Colonial Building
[12] 11. Map Store
[13] 12. Leaving Fingerprints
[14] 13. from Andromeda
[15] 14. when faces called flowers float out of the ground
[16] 15. Captain of the Lighthouse
Paper 3 · A Man of the People
[1] Read the complete centre-selected work in the correct edition; text-specific teaching is not yet available.
Paper 3 · Convenience Store Woman
[1] Read the complete centre-selected work in the correct edition; text-specific teaching is not yet available.
Paper 3 · Stories of Ourselves, Volume 2 · 2028 selection
[1] Prepare all ten prescribed stories if this is your selected Paper 3 option. Teaching is available for all ten stories: twenty named reading and writing lessons plus four full-selection workshops. Complete reading and independently supported writing are still required. Read all ten in the centre-selected anthology, which is not reproduced in full. Self-check models do not award official marks; qualified teacher assessment and calibrated papers remain unfinished.
[2] 1. Death of the Laird’s Jock
[3] 2. George Silverman’s Explanation
[4] 3. The Nightingale and the Rose
[5] 4. The Copper Beeches
[6] 5. A Story of a Wedding Tour
[7] 6. The Shrinking Shoe
[8] 7. Gabriel-Ernest
[9] 8. A Warning to the Curious
[10] 9. Indian Summer of an Uncle
[11] 10. Lappin and Lapinova
1. For 2028, record your centre’s chosen Paper 3 option, complete member list where relevant, edition and the source used to verify it.
Compare after trying
A complete tracker names the correct-year option and full work or anthology selection, identifies the edition, and records its official source. It separately includes compulsory poetry where the cycle requires it.
Why this response fits
- The choice is a real preparation requirement, not merely a title remembered from a different year.
- This self-check does not certify that the learner has read or understood the work.
2029
Prepare all 15 Paper 2 poems and at least one complete Paper 3 prose option.
Paper 2 · Songs of Ourselves, Volume 3 · compulsory poetry selection
[1] Prepare all fifteen prescribed poems for compulsory Paper 2. Teaching is available for 12 of the 15 compulsory poems. The remaining 3 members need verified reading, substantive teaching and practice; full-selection workshops and the complete selection remain unfinished. Use the exact anthology extracts and specified translations. The full three-year selection remains a content gap until every member and full-selection practice are taught; self-checking does not award Cambridge marks.
[2] 1. The Panther
[3] 2. A Blessing
[4] 3. Toroa: Albatross
[5] 4. Frog
[6] 5. #ExtinctionRebellion
[7] 6. The Sun Wanders, Searching for Shade
[8] 7. from Our Casuarina Tree
[9] 8. Fair Weather
[10] 9. O Earth
[11] 10. An Old Colonial Building
[12] 11. Map Store
[13] 12. Leaving Fingerprints
[14] 13. from Andromeda
[15] 14. when faces called flowers float out of the ground
[16] 15. Captain of the Lighthouse
Paper 3 · A Man of the People
[1] Read the complete centre-selected work in the correct edition; text-specific teaching is not yet available.
Paper 3 · Convenience Store Woman
[1] Read the complete centre-selected work in the correct edition; text-specific teaching is not yet available.
Paper 3 · Stories of Ourselves, Volume 3 · 2029 selection
[1] Prepare all ten prescribed stories if your centre selects this Paper 3 option. Teaching and practice are available for 7 of the ten prescribed stories. The remaining 3 members and full-selection workshops need substantive teaching. Both complete 2029 and 2030 selection entries remain content gaps. The Necklace, The Model Millionaire, Sultana’s Dream, The Interlopers, The Sacrificial Egg, Sale and New York Day Women have paired reading and writing lessons in the partial member pathway. Read the full centre anthology; the three other members and complete selection remain unfinished. Self-checking does not award official marks.
[2] 1. The Necklace
[3] 2. The Model Millionaire
[4] 3. Sultana’s Dream
[5] 4. The Interlopers
[6] 5. The Sacrificial Egg
[7] 6. Sale
[8] 7. The Light on the Sea
[9] 8. New York Day Women
[10] 9. Nietverloren
[11] 10. Hard to Say
1. For 2029, record your centre’s chosen Paper 3 option, complete member list where relevant, edition and the source used to verify it.
Compare after trying
A complete tracker names the correct-year option and full work or anthology selection, identifies the edition, and records its official source. It separately includes compulsory poetry where the cycle requires it.
Why this response fits
- The choice is a real preparation requirement, not merely a title remembered from a different year.
- This self-check does not certify that the learner has read or understood the work.
2030
Prepare all 15 Paper 2 poems and at least one complete Paper 3 prose option.
Paper 2 · Songs of Ourselves, Volume 3 · compulsory poetry selection
[1] Prepare all fifteen prescribed poems for compulsory Paper 2. Teaching is available for 12 of the 15 compulsory poems. The remaining 3 members need verified reading, substantive teaching and practice; full-selection workshops and the complete selection remain unfinished. Use the exact anthology extracts and specified translations. The full three-year selection remains a content gap until every member and full-selection practice are taught; self-checking does not award Cambridge marks.
[2] 1. The Panther
[3] 2. A Blessing
[4] 3. Toroa: Albatross
[5] 4. Frog
[6] 5. #ExtinctionRebellion
[7] 6. The Sun Wanders, Searching for Shade
[8] 7. from Our Casuarina Tree
[9] 8. Fair Weather
[10] 9. O Earth
[11] 10. An Old Colonial Building
[12] 11. Map Store
[13] 12. Leaving Fingerprints
[14] 13. from Andromeda
[15] 14. when faces called flowers float out of the ground
[16] 15. Captain of the Lighthouse
Paper 3 · Fasting, Feasting
[1] Read the complete centre-selected work in the correct edition; text-specific teaching is not yet available.
Paper 3 · Convenience Store Woman
[1] Read the complete centre-selected work in the correct edition; text-specific teaching is not yet available.
Paper 3 · Stories of Ourselves, Volume 3 · 2030 selection
[1] Prepare all ten prescribed stories if your centre selects this Paper 3 option. Teaching and practice are available for 7 of the ten prescribed stories. The remaining 3 members and full-selection workshops need substantive teaching. Both complete 2029 and 2030 selection entries remain content gaps. The Necklace, The Model Millionaire, Sultana’s Dream, The Interlopers, The Sacrificial Egg, Sale and New York Day Women have paired reading and writing lessons in the partial member pathway. Read the full centre anthology; the three other members and complete selection remain unfinished. Self-checking does not award official marks.
[2] 1. The Necklace
[3] 2. The Model Millionaire
[4] 3. Sultana’s Dream
[5] 4. The Interlopers
[6] 5. The Sacrificial Egg
[7] 6. Sale
[8] 7. The Light on the Sea
[9] 8. New York Day Women
[10] 9. Nietverloren
[11] 10. Hard to Say
1. For 2030, record your centre’s chosen Paper 3 option, complete member list where relevant, edition and the source used to verify it.
Compare after trying
A complete tracker names the correct-year option and full work or anthology selection, identifies the edition, and records its official source. It separately includes compulsory poetry where the cycle requires it.
Why this response fits
- The choice is a real preparation requirement, not merely a title remembered from a different year.
- This self-check does not certify that the learner has read or understood the work.
Follow the year and component
In 2025–2027, Paper 3 offers poetry, prose and drama choices; the poetry anthology selection changes from Volume 2 in 2025 to Volume 1 in 2026–2027. Paper 2 in that cycle has no prescribed poems. From 2028, the 15 Volume 3 poems belong to compulsory Paper 2 preparation and Paper 3 offers prose only.
Prepare the selected whole requirement
For Paper 3, prepare at least one eligible option; the site does not ask a student to read every alternative novel or anthology. If the option is a story anthology, read the full listed ten-story selection. The revised story option changes from Volume 2 in 2028 to Volume 3 in 2029–2030. In 2030, Fasting, Feasting replaces A Man of the People. Confirm editions and translations with the official list and teacher.
The lists below are bibliographic reading trackers, not plot summaries, poem analysis or complete text teaching. All fourteen historical 2025 Volume 2 poems have named teaching and four whole-selection workshops; SET-2025-5 links eighteen lessons. Three public-domain poems are printed; the eleven protected poems use complete linked primary readings. Qualified assessment remains unfinished. The Doll’s House, The Gold Watch, A Visit and Promenade have four lessons each; A Walk to the Jetty and In the Mountains have seven each, Mrs. Sen’s has six, and The Plantation and The Paper Menagerie have five each. Complete primary reading supports all nine taught historical members, including Mrs. Sen’s through its final paragraph and The Plantation through all four sections and its final dawn bird-call. In the Mountains uses the complete publisher transcription with automated-text, edition and access limitations explicit. A Walk to the Jetty follows the complete six-page retype through the final berth, with reader annotations and version differences kept separate. Words and full-selection workshops remain unfinished, so SET-2025-6 stays unlinked. Anowa links ten whole-play lessons for 2025–2026; it remains outside the coursework list for those years. The Cherry Orchard links a whole-play sequence for 2025–2027, and the 2026–2027 Volume 1 poetry option links teaching for every member. All ten stories in the 2026–2028 Volume 2 option have reading and writing lessons and four full-selection workshops; the three eligible year rows link that pathway. Twelve compulsory 2028–2030 Volume 3 poems have teaching; the remaining three and the complete poetry rows remain unfinished. Seven 2029–2030 Volume 3 stories have paired reading and writing lessons in a partial member pathway; the remaining three and full-selection workshops remain unfinished. Both complete story rows stay unlinked. Crocodiles has twenty-eight lessons through all six country chapters, with passage, essay, voice and retrieval workshops; all three 2025–2027 complete book rows link its pathway. It remains excluded from those years’ coursework. Little Foxes has twenty-two lessons across all three acts and four whole-play workshops for 2027 only; its complete option links the sequence. It remains excluded from 2027 coursework; primary reading and qualified assessment remain required. Other year-specific works remain teaching gaps until substantive lessons exist.
Sources for this lesson
Pause and explain
Does a list of all prescribed titles count as completed text-specific teaching?
Worked example
A 2029 tracker lists Stories of Ourselves Volume 2 as its Paper 3 anthology. What should be checked?
Show the worked solution
- The 2029 option uses Volume 3.
- Replace the old member selection with the year’s ten listed stories and confirm the edition.
Answer Correct the anthology volume and complete story selection against the 2029 list.
Try a topic test
Choose Easy, Normal or Difficult. Save your answers and open worked review after finishing.
Test this topic →From guided practice to a new situation
Write your answer and reasoning first. Use a hint only if you are stuck. The model solution is for self-checking; your written work is not automatically marked.
A 2026 poetry option uses the 2025 Volume 2 list. Identify the mismatch.
Give me a hint
Check the next year’s anthology heading.
Compare my reasoning
- The 2026 Paper 3 poetry option is the specified Volume 1 selection.
- Replace the stale list and verify all fourteen listed poems.
Use the 2026 Volume 1 selection, not the 2025 Volume 2 list.
Look for these in your work
- Identify the correct volume
- Prepare the complete selection
A 2029 Paper 3 anthology tracker includes only six of ten prescribed stories. What remains?
Give me a hint
Check both the volume and count.
Compare my reasoning
- Four stories are unprepared.
- Use the 2029 Volume 3 member list for the missing titles.
Prepare the remaining four prescribed Volume 3 stories.
Look for these in your work
- Count the missing reading
- Use the year’s actual list
A learner chooses one of the three eligible 2028 prose options and asks whether every alternative is compulsory. Explain the requirement.
Give me a hint
Separate a choice set from the compulsory poetry selection.
Compare my reasoning
- Paper 3 requires at least one eligible studied prose option.
- Paper 2 still requires all fifteen prescribed poems.
Not every prose alternative is compulsory; prepare the chosen option fully and all compulsory Paper 2 poems.
Look for these in your work
- Distinguish option and requirement
- Retain mandatory poetry
Common mistakes
- Confirm the year and anthology volume.
- Do not count a reading checklist as full text knowledge.
What can you explain now?
Does a list of all prescribed titles count as completed text-specific teaching?
Compare with the explanation
No; reading and substantive analysis remain necessary.
Bibliographic identification only establishes what should be prepared.
After trying it yourself, choose your next review. This is your self-assessment.
Your review choice appears on Today. Sign in to sync it across devices.
Make it stick
Does a list of all prescribed titles count as completed text-specific teaching?
If you needed the solution, close it and solve the problem again from a blank page. A correct answer is stronger when you can explain the reason for each step.