AQA GCSE English: Teacher Guide, Resource Pack
Skills for Language and Literature
Published on 26. March 2010
Book
Spiral bound
195 pages
978-1-4441-0875-0 (ISBN)
Description
The AQA GCSE English: Skills for Language and Literature Teacher Guide supports teachers in helping students to develop their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills to achieve the best results in their exams and controlled assessment. Focused on the Assessment Objectives. Written by a senior examiner and advanced skills teachers, this guide is essential for success. AQA GCSE English: Skills for Language and Literature includes: - Sections on reading, writing, speaking and listening, and literature, which emphasise how the skills are applied in the exams and in the new controlled assessment, and reflect the life-long learning approach. - Skills teaching map. - Activities with teacher notes, worksheets and answers. - Free CD-ROM with listening material. - PowerPoints to support whole-class teaching. - Photocopiable planning grids. - Assessment advice. The CD-ROM contains Word documents of the whole pack that allow teachers to adapt the content to their students' needs, as well as PDFs to enable printing out as an alternative to photocopying.
Also in the series: AQA GCSE English: Skills for Language & Literature textbook (978-1-4441-0874-3) AQA GCSE English Skills for Achieving an A* textbook (978-1-4441-1081-4) Workbooks sold in packs of 5 and 10 for: - AQA GCSE English and English Language Unit 1: Understanding and Producing Non-Fiction Texts - AQA GCSE English Literature Unit 1: Exploring Modern Texts - AQA GCSE English Unit 3: Understanding and Producing Creative Texts - AQA GCSE English Language Unit 3: Understanding Spoken and Written Texts and Writing Creatively
Also in the series: AQA GCSE English: Skills for Language & Literature textbook (978-1-4441-0874-3) AQA GCSE English Skills for Achieving an A* textbook (978-1-4441-1081-4) Workbooks sold in packs of 5 and 10 for: - AQA GCSE English and English Language Unit 1: Understanding and Producing Non-Fiction Texts - AQA GCSE English Literature Unit 1: Exploring Modern Texts - AQA GCSE English Unit 3: Understanding and Producing Creative Texts - AQA GCSE English Language Unit 3: Understanding Spoken and Written Texts and Writing Creatively
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Learning
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Illustrations
Black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 320 mm
Width: 259 mm
Thickness: 66 mm
Weight
2070 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4441-0875-0 (9781444108750)
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Persons
John Nield is a senior examiner for a major awarding body. With many years teaching experience he now runs courses to help English departments across the country boost their results. John edited the textbook and wrote the Reading material for the textbook and Teacher Guide. Graham Fletcher is an Advanced Skills Teacher who has over 15 years experience as Head of English, examining and moderating. He is currently a Deputy Headteacher but still teaches English to GCSE students. With many years' experience moderating for Speaking and Listening Graham wrote this section of the textbook. Unsah Tabassum has over 10 years teaching experience, with over 6 years spent transforming English Departments and improving GCSE results. She is an examiner and Assistant Headteacher and wrote the Writing section of the textbook and Teacher Guide.
Content
About this pack Skills teaching map Controlled assessment Introduction to GCSE English Why study English? Becoming self-motivated Topics Reading Reading is reading is reading Reading and understanding texts: selecting material appropriate to purpose Structural and presentational features Linguistic features Approaching poetry Comparing poetry Approaching novels Reading and writing together Writing Writing is writing is writing Writing non-fiction texts Developing the writing process Perfecting the writing process (1) Perfecting the writing process (2) Speaking and listening Communicating clearly Listening and responding Persuading Creating and sustaining a role Explaining how language changes Resources Media terms and concepts Literary terms and concepts Planning grids