GCSE English Language Paper 1 - Creative Writing Q + Grade 9 Exemplar Answer

Attached is a June 2018 Paper 1 Question 5 writing task followed by a grade 9 exemplar that would achieve 24/24 on Content and Organisation as well as 16/16 on technical accuracy. Can be used as practice for any exam board creative writing task.

Going through exemplar answers with students is a fantastic way of teaching them to become better writers. Just like reading a book, this teaches them creativity as well as showing them what is expected of them in an exam situation to achieve the top marks.

All students will definitely benefit from going through such an exemplar.

Teaching Ideas:

• Perhaps ask students to look through the exemplar and find any literary techniques that have been utilised.
• Ask students to find any deeper ideas that may have been embedded by the writer.
• Ask students to identify structural features of the response and comment on why it makes the exemplar interesting.
• Task the students with writing their own response to the question, trying to use similar and additional techniques to make their writing perhaps even better, without copying the exemplar.

Hope you find this extremely useful! Do come back and let me know how this has worked in the classroom!