English Language GCSE paper 1 exam skills pack

Make sure your students are well prepared for AQA’s GCSE English Language Paper 1: Explorations in creative reading and writing.

‘This student-facing pack is designed to be both accessible and challenging. With top tips, AO breakdowns, detailed activities, exam-style questions and suggested answers, it forms a comprehensive student pack which is ideal for developing skills, pushing students, and providing structured, useful revision. It covers a range of stimulating texts and will help to build students’ confidence when dealing with unseen texts and prepare them for the rigour of the GCSE exam.’
Lyndsey Chand, writer

Our exam skills pack is divided into sections for reading and writing and features four fiction extracts for analysis along with exam questions for each extract.

The pack focuses on key skills and assessment objectives and includes pre-reading activities, matching activities, true/false activities, planning grids, vocabulary tasks, sequencing tasks, creative extension tasks, correction activities and more.

Perfect for revision and preparation for the exam.

Featured texts:
Jamrach’s Menagerie – Carol Birch
‘The Singing Lesson’ – Katherine Mansfield
The Lodger – Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Hampdenshire Wonder – J.D. Beresford

What’s included?

• four fiction text extracts
• reading and writing sections
• exam practice questions.

What’s inside?
Teacher introduction (pages 3-4)

Section A: Reading (pages 5-6)
Practise the exam skills: AO1 (first bullet point) (pages 7-25)

• Source 1: Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch

Practise the exam skills: AO2 (language) (pages 25-53)

• Source 2: ‘The Singing Lesson’ by Katherine Mansfield

Practise the exam skills: AO2 (structure) (pages 54-78)

• Source 3: The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Practise the exam skills: AO4 (pages 79-102)

• Source 4: The Hampdenshire Wonder by J.D. Beresford

Section B: Writing (pages 103-104)
Practise the exam skills: AO5 (pages 105-120)
Practise the exam skills: AO6 (pages 121-142)