New GCSE English Language Reading: 19th Century Fiction

These informative and engaging resources enable students to build the skills needed to interpret and analyse 19th Century fiction texts. This will aid students through the new Paper 1 Section A of GCSE English Language - for which they need to become confident readers of 19th, 20th, and 21st Century texts. These resources give students a strong foundation of knowledge of features of fiction texts in the 19th Century, using Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as the predominant example. There are easily enough resources for at least two lessons within this resource pack.

Students learn through the following tasks:
- Gauging and collaborating previous knowledge through an interactive starter task;
- Identifying the descriptive devices in sentences written about 19th Century characters;
- Building close reading skills through a study of a fiction extract from Frankenstein
- Answering exam-style questions interpreting and inferring the key meanings in the text;
- Using models and templates to write extended analysis responses about the descriptive language used in the fiction extract;
- Peer assessing their partners' learning attempts.

The following resources are provided:
- Engaging and colourful step-by-step PowerPoint
- Frankenstein extract
- Teacher lesson guidance;
- Interpretation worksheet;
- Analysis worksheet;
- Writing to analyse help-sheet

All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.