Using an extract from Conan-Doyle's non-fiction, "The Edge of the Unknown" and an article taken from the Discovery Channel online newsdesk, the theme of these two non-fiction texts is belief in ghosts.
I have adapted the texts, simplifying some vocabulary and sentencing to make them a little more accessible to students whose reading ages are significantly lower than their chronological age, to provide an appropriate point of access to the skills demanded by the new AQA GCSE Language Paper 2A exam paper.
I have adhered to the phrasing of the questions, but the tasks are differentiated thus:
Q1 - same as the actual exam paper
Q2 - cloze exercise of the summary (this could be easily tweaked to sentence stems)
Q3a - highlight and write down 3 relevant examples of language used to convey viewpoint
Q3b - cloze exercise of use of language to convey viewpoint and attitude (again, could easily be tweaked to the sentence stems of a PEE paragraph where pupils supply the point, evidence and explain how it conveys the writer's viewpoint.)
I have not included the Q4 'comparison of methods to convey attitudes' task as it is a skill currently beyond the ability of the students for whom I have produced this resource.
SMART Notebook slides are also included for whole-class interactive teaching of the resource.
Matt :)
I have adapted the texts, simplifying some vocabulary and sentencing to make them a little more accessible to students whose reading ages are significantly lower than their chronological age, to provide an appropriate point of access to the skills demanded by the new AQA GCSE Language Paper 2A exam paper.
I have adhered to the phrasing of the questions, but the tasks are differentiated thus:
Q1 - same as the actual exam paper
Q2 - cloze exercise of the summary (this could be easily tweaked to sentence stems)
Q3a - highlight and write down 3 relevant examples of language used to convey viewpoint
Q3b - cloze exercise of use of language to convey viewpoint and attitude (again, could easily be tweaked to the sentence stems of a PEE paragraph where pupils supply the point, evidence and explain how it conveys the writer's viewpoint.)
I have not included the Q4 'comparison of methods to convey attitudes' task as it is a skill currently beyond the ability of the students for whom I have produced this resource.
SMART Notebook slides are also included for whole-class interactive teaching of the resource.
Matt :)
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Great, thank you
An excellent resource except I can't open the notebook file.<br />
Your resources are so useful. They are beautifully differentiated and the notebook files are so helpful. It is so hard to find resources as good as these. Thank you, Mathew, I really appreciate your generosity.
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