AQA GCSE Descriptive Writing

This resource is made up of five lessons, an editable 126-slide PowerPoint and 32 worksheets. It is a complete unit of work for Year 10/11 students who are following the AQA GCSE English Language course. It explains how to produce a piece of effective descriptive writing as required by the AQA GCSE English Language exam.

Activities and lessons cover:

An introduction to descriptive writing

Examples of exam questions with pictures and example answers

Examples of descriptive writing for analysis

Planning and structuring using the ‘zoom’ method

Using the senses to create imagery

How to use descriptive devices - metaphors, personification, similes, sentence variety, imagery, vocabulary, semantic fields and show not tell

Exploring the AQA GCSE Mark Scheme and assessing example responses

And much more!

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