English Language Paper 1 (New). Questions 1-5 using Birdsong extract.

Sequence of lessons teaching the skills required for the New AQA specification - English Language Paper 1.

These lessons use an extract from Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong to teach the key skills required for Questions 1 -5. The BBC version of Birdsong is a useful tool to support the teaching of structure and language.

(Modified Presentation)

The sequence of lessons link well to the teaching of the Conflict and Power cluster of poems by exploring the theme of conflict and nature of trench warfare.

Lessons include: example paragraphs, paragraph structures, explicit links to the mark scheme, opportunities for self and peer assessment, scaffolds to help students plan their answers and a range of individual, pair and group tasks.

They are designed using the AQA recommended paragraph structures SQI for Questions 2 and 3. A sequence of questions: What, How and Why are established to meet the criteria set in the AQA preparing to teach resources that suggests the ability to comment, explain and analyse is internal hierarchy of progression.

The question 4 lessons focus on teaching students how to develop a critical and evaluative response to a statement using a routine that can be applied to any question 4.

The question 5 lessons are designed to enable students to create interesting and convincing story openings using The Sins of the Mother by Jamil Ahmad as a model text.

AO1: Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas.
Select and synthesise evidence from different texts.

AO2: Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure
to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject
terminology to support their views.

AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references.