Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 from June 2019 (The Mill by HE Bates). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a good answer at each level looks like, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the different bands of the mark scheme were met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 from November 2020 (The Silk Factory by Judith Allnatt). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a good answer at each level looks like, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the different bands of the mark scheme were met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 from June 2019 (Extract from The Crossing by James Cracknell and Ben Fogle and Idle Days in Patagonia by WH Hudson). Three model answers each for questions 2-4 for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the mark scheme was met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 November 2020 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen texts. Questions 1-4 only for extracts from ‘Touching the Void’ and ‘Climbing the Meije’.

Clearly presents a way to tackle the difficulties of evaluation question on the English Language GCSE paper for all exam boards (both 1 & 2/fiction & non-fiction). Goes through ‘what is evaluation?’, what to write about and how to structure a response. Overall, designed to increase understanding and confidence for teachers and students. Contains an exemplar but no activities or texts to practise on, but rather to support other work.

Model answers for OCR GCSE English Language Paper 2 November 2017 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen text. Questions 1-4 only for the extracts from John Buchan’s ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 November 2017 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen texts. Questions 1-4 only for extracts from ‘The Other Side of the Dale’ and ‘The Ragged School’.

Model answers for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 from November 2018 (Letter from E.B, White and The Pregnancy Book by the Department of Health). Three model answers each for questions 3, 6 and 7(b) for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the mark scheme was met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.

Model answers for questions 1-4 written to meet AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 requirements, responding to Specimen Material 3 - Claire Dean's 'Glass, Brick and Dust'. Adapt as needed.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 from November 2018 (‘All cyclists fear bad drivers’ From The Guardian and ‘On a Bicycle in the Streets of London’ from a Victorian magazine). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and the mark scheme was met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used resource and anything that could be added to make more useful.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 from June 2017 (How can my son be a year old already? From The Guardian and Boy Lost from a Victorian newspaper). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Written to meet the mark scheme as well as examiner’s report for that year. Notes are included to show where and how requirements are met. Intended as an adaptable teacher’s tool to aid demonstration of models for the Language fiction exam. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used resource and anything that could be added to make more useful.

Model answers and tips for Edexcel English Language GCSE Paper 1. Full answers for questions 1-4 with notes on how they match the mark schemes and examiner’s guidance. This matches up with Edexcel’s publicly available first sample assesment material for The Tell Tale Heart, for the new 9-1 GCSE.

A review/revision source for Edexcel English Language Paper 1 going through requirements for each question with tips and advice.

A standalone lesson on the features and use of suspense in ‘The Speckled Band’. Designed for home learning and for post-reading of the story. Contains support for an analysis paragraph and creative writing homework.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 specimen assessment material 1 (Jamaica Inn). Models for questions 1-4 with annotations showing how to practically interpret the mark scheme.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 from November 2019 (Silent Land by Graham Joyce). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a good answer at each level looks like, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the different bands of the mark scheme were met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.

Model answers for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 from June 2017 (Grey is the Colour of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya and Don’t dread downsizing! By Libby Purves). Three model answers each for questions 3, 6, 7a and 7b for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Written to meet the mark scheme as well as examiner’s report for that year. Notes are included to show where and how requirements are met. Intended as an adaptable teacher’s tool to aid demonstration of models for the Language non-fiction exam. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used resource and anything that could be added to make more useful.

Model answers for OCR GCSE English Language Paper 2 June 2018 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen text. Questions 1-4 only for the extracts from Laurie Lee’s ‘A Moment of War’ and Wayson Choy’s ‘All That Matters’

Table to structure revision notes for poetry. Focuses notes around theme, language, structure, rhyme and rhythm.

Can be used for homework or to keep track as they learn - persuasive devices with space to write definition and an example to refer back to