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Improving Writing | Discourse Markers: A Teacher’s Guide and Toolkit »

Christine Sweeney | Friday November 22, 2019

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Associated Resources Discourse Markers Toolkit Discourse Markers PowerPoint DISPLAY Discourse Markers A ‘discourse marker’ is a word or phrase that helps to link written ideas. These words are generally more formal lexical items that find little use in speech – which is perhaps why they do not always come naturally to students. Discourse markers can be used, for example, to link ideas that are similar (e.g. the adverbs, also and similarly); and they can be used to link ideas… [ read full article ] »

AQA GCSE English Language P1 Explorations Mark Scheme Brothers Section B »

ghallahan | Monday October 19, 2015

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Section B: Writing You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on this section. Write in full sentences. You are reminded of the need to plan your answer. You should leave enough time to check your work at the end. You are going to enter a creative writing competition. Your entry will be judged by a panel of people of your own age. Either: Write a description suggested by this picture Or: Write a story about a person who is lost and cannot find their way home. (24 marks for content and… [ read full article ] »

A GCSE Student’s Guide to Narrative Writing Skills »

Beverly Abrahams | Thursday June 26, 2014

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click on image to enlarge This guide has been written with the CIE English Unit 0500 and 0522 in mind, but it could be equally useful to introduce and practice narrative writing skills for WJEC, OCR, AQA and Edexcel GCSE and iGCSE. Objective To develop appropriate writing skills in line with the objectives required by Cambridge International Examinations for Cambridge iGCSE First Language English Syllabus code 0500 and Cambridge International Level 1/Level 2 Certificate First Language English… [ read full article ] »

A GCSE Guide to Argumentative Writing Skills: Introducing an Essay »

Beverly Abrahams | Thursday June 26, 2014

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click on image to enlarge Introducing an Essay This guide has been written with the CIE English Unit 0522 in mind, but it could be equally useful to introduce and practice argumentative writing skills for WJEC, OCR, AQA and Edexcel GCSE and iGCSE. Where do we start? We all realise the importance of an introduction to an essay. Besides being important because of its content (i.e. ‘what’ it says), it is also important in that it sets the tone for the rest of the essay (i.e. ‘how’ it says… [ read full article ] »

GCSE English Teaching Guide to Descriptive Writing »

Beth Kemp | Monday October 14, 2013

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Tips for Teaching Descriptive Writing for GCSE/IGCSE This guide examines the skill of writing descriptively quite broadly, with teaching ideas to explore and refine particular aspects of that skill (i.e. sensory description, effective imagery, avoiding writing a list of incomplete sentences, moving around the scene, writing from a neutral third person position - seen as crucial in some specifications). The various GCSE and Certificate/IGCSE specifications have slightly different requirements for… [ read full article ] »

GCSE English Literature Guide Close Reading Techniques »

Steve Campsall | Wednesday May 15, 2013

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Teacher’s Note This guide has been tested successfully with students and gives them ways for them to develop a much deeper response to literature, with a particular, but not exclusive, focus on poetry. It also shows how to analyse at the levels of form, structure and language – the first two of which seem to cause near universal difficulties. The various elements within the guide can easily be adapted either for direct student use (i.e. as a stand-alone revision guide) or for classroom use,… [ read full article ] »

Improving Your Analyses PPT »

Stewart Shovlin | Thursday March 14, 2013

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Associated Resources Improving Your Analyses.pptx [ read full article ] »

GCSE Essay Writing Skills »

Steve Campsall | Wednesday December 05, 2012

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It is because we cannot see the reader that writing needs to be different from speech. A reader is distant and so we cannot notice any misunderstandings or loss of interest that occur as they read. This creates a need for clarity in writing that isn’t so important in speech. The style and structure we adopt for example needs to be more formal; and the need to create and maintain interest means that writing should be lively. In the case of school essays, the reader is the teacher or examiner… [ read full article ] »

AQA GCSE English Literature | Student Guide to Poetry Essays »

Steve Campsall | Wednesday March 16, 2011

Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE Pre-2015 Resources, AQA English Literature, Unit 2 Poetry Across Time, AQA GCSE Generic Skills, AQA GCSE Skills Resources, Hot Entries, Poetry, Writing, Essays, Poetry Analysis

This guide is aimed at GCSE English and English Literature students in Year 11 and, although based on poetry, it contains much of value regarding general essay writing skills and the use of the key essay writing “P.E.E / P.Q.C? technique. Its strength perhaps is that it is based on an average student’s writing rather than that of a top grade student, as is often the case with published exemplars. This, it is hoped, will allow students of a variety of abilities to feel comfortable with the… [ read full article ] »