New GCSE English Language Reading: 19th Century Non-Fiction

These informative and engaging resources enable students to build the skills needed to interpret and analyse 19th Century non-fiction texts. This will aid students through the new Paper 2 Section A of GCSE English Language - for which they need to become confident readers of 19th, 20th, and 21st Century non-fiction texts. These resources give students a strong foundation of knowledge of features of non-fiction texts in the 19th Century, using newspaper stories from the time based on 'Jack the Ripper' as the predominant examples. There are easily enough resources for at least two lessons within this resource pack.

Students learn through the following tasks:
- Inferring and deducing contextual knowledge through an interactive starter task;
- Understanding the features of London in 1888 through a video introduction;
- Building close reading skills through a study of a non-fiction extract about Jack the Ripper;
- Answering exam-style questions interpreting and inferring the key meanings in the text;
- Using models and templates to write extended analysis responses about the language used in the non-fiction extract;
- Peer assessing their partners' learning attempts.

The following resources are provided:
- Engaging and colourful step-by-step PowerPoint;
- Jack the Ripper newspaper extract;
- Teacher lesson guidance;
- Interpretation worksheet;
- Analysis worksheet;
- Writing to analyse.

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