Introducing Analysis of Narrative and Descriptive Writing

This worksheet is intended to be an opening activity (or possibly a revision/consolidation task) to build students' confidence in approaching unseen descriptive/narrative passages set in GCSE exams. There are a series of questions which students are asked to organise into categories i.e. from a muddled list they should identify which questions are relevant to narrative voice, which to setting etc… This could be done either by giving students the document to edit and rearrange on computers or with scissors and glue. The idea is that they can create their own guide to reading unseen narrative/descriptive texts. I have also included my own organised version of the questions for reference - so do remove that from the document before distributing the task! There is also an annotated extract from 'The Secret Garden' to help model the process of applying some of the questions to a text.