AQA English Language Paper 2, Reading Section Overview

This resource would be best enlarged onto A3 and could be used during teaching this paper, before an assessment or after a marked piece of work in order for students to make improvements.

This focuses solely on the reading section of Language Paper 2 and uses ‘One’s Company’ and ‘Records of a Girlhood’ (2023 exam) as its focus. It is three pages in length. The sections could be potentially highlighted by students or folded to look less overwhelming and to seem more like a bookmark style tool.

This is a grid which includes

• the key things to remember about the reading section
• emphasis on the importance of the context box at the top of the extract
• what each question looks like (based on ‘One’s Company’ and ‘Records of a Girlhood’ (2023 exam)
• questions they should ask themselves for each question to help reading for meaning
• how to plan (or what I tell mine to do)
• what should be included to gain specific levels with a short example
• sentence openers
• a rough breakdown of marks for grade boundaries
• the mark scheme with bracketed simplification of some words for students to understand