GCSE English & English Literature Revision Guide

James Durran and Jim Stewart

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Increase exam success

The GCSE English and English Literature Revision Guide is designed to help your students to work effectively on their own as they prepare for their exams in GCSE English and English Literature. Special reference is made to the AQA 'A' specifications but the principles covered can be more generally applied.

Complete coverage

After an opening section providing general advice, separate sections cover each part of the GCSE English and English Literature exams, addressing essential principles. A guide to technical terms and their application is also provided.

Differentiated activities

To cater for the full ability range, many of the activities are divided into easy, less easy, and hard. This allows students to start with the easy activities, and work their way through, or to start with the less easy or hard activities.

A comprehensive glossary of relevant technical terms is included.

Build essential skills

Each section of the book focuses on the essential skills that students need in English exams, making frequent reference to what the examiners are looking for and offering tips on how to approach the revision process. Sections include:

• General advice
• Reading unseen non-fiction and media texts
• Writing to argue, persuade or advise
• Writing to inform, explain or describe
• Revising a collection of poems
• Revising a novel
• Revising short stories
• Words to revise
• Reading exam questions.

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The books are designed for student use and for distribution through schools. Large discounts on class sets mean that they can be sold on to students at a cost well below the cover price. Inspection copies are also available on request.

Contents

Introduction

General advice

• Looking back over your GCSE work
• Practising planning and writing
• The exam papers
• Reading exam questions
• Quoting

Reading unseen non-fiction and media texts

• What the examiners are looking for
• Tackling the exam paper
• Checklists of ideas
• Following an argument
• Comparing texts
• Quoting
• Practising planning and writing
• Other ways to prepare for this section

Writing to argue, persuade or advise

• What the examiners are looking for
• Tackling the exam paper
• Practising planning and writing
• Other ways to prepare for this section

Writing to inform, explain or describe

• What the examiners are looking for
• Tackling the exam paper
• Practising planning and writing
• Other ways to prepare for this section

Revising a collection of poems

• What the examiners are looking for
• Comparing the poems
• Tackling the exam paper
• Beginning your revision
• Social, historical and cultural context
• Quoting
• Practising planning and writing
• Other ways to revise a collection of poems

Revising a novel

• What the examiners are looking for
• Tackling the exam paper
• Beginning your revision
• How to practise skimming and scanning the text
• Social, historical and cultural context
• Quoting
• Practising planning and writing
• Other ways to revise a novel

Revising short stories

• What the examiners are looking for
• Comparing stories
• Tackling the exam paper
• Beginning your revision
• How to practise skimming and scanning the text
• Social, historical and cultural context
• Quoting
• Practising planning and writing
• Other ways to revise the stories

Words to revise

Reading exam questions