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• A mock exam with mark scheme and indicative content
• A series of learning slides focused on improving performance

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• Death of a Hoarder | Improving...

Materials for Assessment

Files you will need for the exam

• AQA GCSE English Lang Exam Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing PDF
• AQA Paper 1 Source A
• AQA Paper 1 Source B

Files you will need to mark the exam papers

• Section A Mark Scheme Paper 1 Explorations
• Section B Mark Scheme Paper 1 Explorations

Live Scripts

Many thanks to all schools who took part in our second mock exam project and thanks again to all the schools who put...

Moderation

Serving Suggestions

How do you know that your department moderation of paper 1 is reliable? These materials have been develop to complement this mock exam in the following ways.

1. For teachers’ moderation we have links to videos where you can read the examples, marks and explanations. Use the links below to watch a video of a script being ‘live’ marked, then ‘mystery’ ones where you are tested on your marking. This can be completed by your...

Paper One

Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

Introduction

This resource has been broken into two parts to make it easier for you to cut, paste and edit. Please click on the link below to find the other half of this resource.

• AQA English Language Fiction Reading Anthology | Childhood Part 1

‘The aim of this paper is to engage students in a creative text, reading a literature fiction text in order to consider how established writers use...

Paper One

Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

Introduction

This resource has been broken into two parts to make it easier for you to cut, paste and edit. Please click on the link below to find the other half of this resource.

AQA English Language Unseen Fiction Reading Anthology | Childhood Part 2

‘The aim of this paper is to engage students in a creative text, reading a literature fiction text in order to consider how established writers...

Paper One

Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

This resource has been broken into two parts to make it easier for you to cut, paste and edit. Please click on the link below to find the other half of this resource.

AQA English Language Fiction Reading Anthology | Place and Time Part 1

Part 2

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This extract from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

This extract is set in America in the 1960s.

On an afternoon a few weeks before...

This resource has been broken into two parts to make it easier for you to cut, paste and edit. Please click on the link below to find the other half of this resource.

• AQA English Language Fiction Reading Anthology | Place and Time Part 2

Paper One

Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

Introduction

‘The aim of this paper is to engage students in a creative text, reading a literature fiction text in order to consider how established...

Materials for Assessment

Files you will need for the exam

• AQA GCSE English Language P1 Explorations Exam Paper The Feet Afoot
• AQA Text The Feet Afoot
• AQA Image The Feet Afoot Section B

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Materials for Assessment

Files you will need for the exam

• AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 Explorations Exam Paper List 42b
• AQA Text List 42b
• AQA Image List 42b Section B

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All Exam Boards

• AQA GCSE English Language (8700) Paper 2 WVP School
• Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 Mark Scheme NFTW Summerhill
• Eduqas/WJEC GCSE English Language C2 Exam Paper RTPW Safari
• OCR GCSE English Language Practice Paper Two EEI Crete

Live Scripts available for these exam papers for Eduqas and AQA exam boards. If you are interested in live scripts for Edexcel or OCR please {encode="

Presented at both The Team English Conference and the ResearchEd National conference this series of resources combine the latest research to improve creative writing. Directed towards improvements for the GCSE English Language Paper this resource can be used in conjunction with any qualification which includes a Creative Writing element.

Based on and including concrete resources to be used in the classroom, Taxi Tales is a practical guide to improve the...

8700/1

Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

Edusites English Practice Paper


Time Allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes

Materials


For this paper you must have:

• Source A
• Source B

Instructions

• Answer all questions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided
• Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross out any work you do not wish to be marked
• You...

8700/1

Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

Edusites English Practice Paper


Time Allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes

Materials


For this paper you must have:

• Source A
• Source B

Instructions

• Answer all questions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided
• Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross out any work you do not wish to be marked
• You...

Welcome to Edusites English AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing Assessment Pack. Click on the links below to access a sample paper, marking guidelines and indicative content.

These packs have been developed by experienced English assessors with extensive awarding body experience and by people who were very closely involved in the development of these new specifications within the awarding bodies, with Ofqual...

Materials for Assessment

Files you will need for the exam

• AQA GCSE English Language P1 Explorations Exam Paper School Days
• AQA Text School Days
• AQA Image School Days Section B

We don’t do downloads as everyone has different software and the text can sometimes look all wrong. Instead please cut and paste straight from the page. I take out the links and writer in the heading as I think it looks better but the formatting all remains the same as the...

Materials for Assessment

Files you will need for the exam

• AQA GCSE English Language P1 Explorations Exam Paper The Breakout
• AQA Text The Breakout
• AQA Image The Breakout Section B

We don’t do downloads as everyone has different software and the text can sometimes look all wrong. Instead please cut and paste straight from the page. I take out the links and writer in the heading as I think it looks better but the formatting all remains the same as the...

Either:

Write a description of a mountain suggested by this picture

Or:

Write the opening of a story that...

Either:

Write a description of a bike ride suggested by this picture

Or:

Write a story that begins with the...

Either:

Write a description suggested by this picture

Or:

Write a story that begins with the sentence:...

8700/1

Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

Edusites English Practice Paper


Time Allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes

Materials


For this paper you must have:

• Source A
• Source B

Instructions

• Answer all questions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided
• Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross out any work you do not wish to be marked
• You...

8700/1

Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

Edusites English Practice Paper


Time Allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes

Materials


For this paper you must have:

• Source A
• Source B

Instructions

• Answer all questions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided
• Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross out any work you do not wish to be marked
• You...

8700/1

Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

Edusites English Practice Paper


Time Allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes

Materials


For this paper you must have:

• Source A
• Source B

Instructions

• Answer all questions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided
• Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross out any work you do not wish to be marked
• You...

8700/1

Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

Edusites English Practice Paper


Time Allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes

Materials


For this paper you must have:

• Source A
• Source B

Instructions

• Answer all questions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided
• Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross out any work you do not wish to be marked
• You...

8700/1

Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

Edusites English Practice Paper


Time Allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes

Materials


For this paper you must have:

• Source A
• Source B

Instructions

• Answer all questions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided
• Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross out any work you do not wish to be marked
• You...

8700/1

Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

Edusites English Practice Paper


Time Allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes

Materials


For this paper you must have:

• Source A
• Source B

Instructions

• Answer all questions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided
• Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross out any work you do not wish to be marked
• You...

8700/1

Paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

Edusites English Practice Paper


Time Allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes

Materials


For this paper you must have:

• Source A
• Source B

Instructions

• Answer all questions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided
• Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross out any work you do not wish to be marked
• You...

Either:

Write a description suggested by this picture

Or:

Write a story that begins with the sentence: ‘Of...

Either:

Write a description suggested by this picture

Or:

Write a story about a person who is lost and cannot...

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Materials for Assessment

Files you will need for the exam

• AQA GCSE English Language...

This resource takes a Language Paper One extract, and provides exemplar answers for every question, and every band, along with helpful explanations of how to interpret the mark scheme.

This could be used in a number of ways

Department Moderation

See video links to examiner talking you through this paper

• As a mock paper for your whole cohort to sit, and the exemplar responses will mean that department marking will be accurate and consistent

In Class

• In...