AQA GCSE Paper 1 English Language (Questions 1-4)

An excellent range of tried and tested resources for three engaging revision lessons on the key skills for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 (Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing) Section A: Reading. These lessons require no additional prep - just download, print out the word docs and you’re good to go.
Resources: a detailed PowerPoint for each lesson ( 16, 11 and 13 slides each), an extract from Game of Thrones, a question/answer booklet plus exemplar answers. These lessons include a range of interesting pair and whole class activities as well as individual tasks, self and peer assessment and reflections. Mark schemes for levels 2-4 are on the PowerPoints to aid assessment of student work and exemplars. Several activities have differentiation. Most slides have extra information in the notes sections to aid the busy teacher and task timings on relevant slides.
Lesson 1 focus is an overview of Paper 1 plus close attention to questions 1 and 2. Lesson 2 focuses on question 3. Lesson 3 on question 4. Each lesson fits into one hour with a starter task to help settle the class and encourage thinking about or using relevant skills. Each lesson also involves timed individual work on the relevant question. Self and peer assessment (guided by peer assessment of the exemplar answers) of all tasks cuts down teacher marking. DIRT is factored into lesson 2 (question 3) and homework tasks for lessons 1 and 3.
These lessons have proved highly successful with my Year 11 English classes in the final weeks before their GCSE exams.