Christine Sweeney | Friday November 22, 2019
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE Pre-2015 Resources, AQA GCSE Generic Skills, AQA GCSE Skills Resources, EDEXCEL GCSE, Edexcel GCSE Generic Skills, Edexcel GCSE Skills Resources, OCR GCSE, OCR GCSE Pre-2015 Resources, OCR GCSE Generic Skills, OCR GCSE Skills Resources, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, WJEC GCSE Pre-2015 Resources, WJEC GCSE Generic Skills, WJEC GCSE Skills Resources, Starters & Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, Writing, Essays, Persuasive Writing
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…
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Beth Kemp | Tuesday June 30, 2015
Categories: KS4, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Language 2015, Component 2: Non-Fiction Reading & Transactional/Persuasive Writing, Component 2: Non-Fiction Reading & Transactional/Persuasive Writing Schemes, Hot Entries, Writing, Persuasive Writing, Transactional Writing
Guide Navigation WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Language Component 2: Reading and Writing Assessment Pack Associated Resources 19th and 21st Century Non-Fiction Reading Handouts.docx Lesson Eight | 19th and 21st Century Non-Fiction Reading Practice Paper.docx 19th and 21st Century Non-Fiction Reading Mark Scheme.docx This eight-lesson scheme introduces pupils to the requirements of the first part of this paper. The Sample Assessment Materials have been taken as a guide for this scheme, with new…
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Beth Kemp | Friday June 19, 2015
Categories: KS4, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Language 2015, Component 2: Non-Fiction Reading & Transactional/Persuasive Writing, Component 2: Non-Fiction Reading & Transactional/Persuasive Writing Schemes, Hot Entries, Writing, Persuasive Writing, Transactional Writing
Guide Navigation WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Language Component 2: Reading and Writing Assessment Pack Associated Resources Lesson Two Starter.docx Student Friendly Mark Scheme.docx This ten-lesson scheme introduces students to the requirements of the second part of this paper. The Sample Assessment Materials have been taken as a guide for this scheme, with new tasks created along the same lines to allow for additional practice while preserving the SAMs for use as a mock examination. A…
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Richard Gledhill | Tuesday May 06, 2014
Categories: KS4, EDEXCEL GCSE, Hot Entries, Writing, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Informative Account, Narrative Writing, Persuasive Writing, Travel Writing, Edexcel English, Edexcel Unit 2: Writers Craft
click on image to enlarge Teacher’s Notes. This guide is specifically aimed at GCSE writing for English / English Language Edexcel Exam board. That said, the teaching of writing is a skills’ focused unit so the guide can easily adapted for use with GCSE syllabuses from AQA, WJEC and OCR or the iGCSE syllabuses. It covers all of the assessment criteria from organising and planning to sentence structure and apostrophes and again, although the focus is Edexcel, broadly similar assessment…
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Sarah Mellor | Thursday November 21, 2013
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, Hot Entries, Writing, Productive, Creative or Original Writing, Persuasive Writing, AQA English, Unit 3 Creative Texts, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing
click on image to enlarge Introduction The resources contained here are designed for students studying GCSE English (focused on the AQA ‘A’ Specification). The resources are designed specifically for students of Lower Ability and with specific Special Educational Needs. The exam boards’ only differentiation concession is to create a Higher and Foundation Tier paper each series; they do not specifically cater to students who struggle to access the basics in English – so, as teachers, we…
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Sarah Mellor | Thursday November 21, 2013
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE Pre-2015 Resources, AQA English, Unit 3 Creative Texts, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing, Hot Entries, Writing, Persuasive Writing, Speech Analysis
click on image to enlarge Identifying Persuasive Techniques and Analysing Persuasive Texts Introduction The following lesson plan and resources are ideal for a one-off GCSE preparation lesson. The idea is to examine persuasive techniques and then answer a GCSE examination-style question on two persuasive texts, requiring students to compare the texts in terms of the audience and point of view of the writer. You can use this resource in two ways: Spread the tasks out over two or three lessons,…
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Steve Campsall | Wednesday May 15, 2013
Categories: Hot Entries, Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Plays, Writing, Drama Analysis, Essays, Literary Analysis, Persuasive Writing, Poetry Analysis, Prose Analysis, Rhetoric Analysis, Speech Analysis, AQA A Level English Literature B, LITB3, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level
Throughout this guide, a past exam-style question based on the play Macbeth has been used to illustrate ideas, but these have been written in a way that will allow you easily to transfer the idea to any other exam text, whether another ‘Gothic’ text or Pastoral. To achieve a high grade in your exam answer, one major precondition exists: That you know your text well. If that condition has been met, through classroom and personal study along with research via the Internet or other study…
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