Schemes of work
Schemes of work are suggestions and ideas about how you might deliver GCSE English Unit 1 and
English Language Unit 1. You can use these suggestions, adapt them to better suit your students or use
your own schemes of work.
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Assessment objectives:
GCSE English A02 Reading/ GCSE English Language AO3 Understanding written language
• Read and understand texts, selecting material appropriate to purpose, collating from different sources and
making comparisons and cross-references as appropriate.
• Explain and evaluate how writers use linguistic, grammatical, structural and presentational features to
achieve effects and influence and engage the reader.
GCSE English AO3 Writing/ GCSE English Language AO4 Writing
• Write clearly, effectively and imaginatively, using and adapting forms and selcting vocabularly appropriate to
task and purpose in ways that engage the reader.
• Organise information and ideas into structured and sequenced sentences, paragraphs and whole texts,
using a variety of linguistic and structural features to support cohesion and overall coherence.
• Use a range of sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate punctuation and spelling.
This unit engages with all The National Curriculum 2007 English Programme of
Key Concepts
Competence
Study elements of Competence (1.1 a-e)
Candidates will be expected to make fresh connections between texts (1.2a)
Creativity
and should manipulate form to suit the purpose of a text (1.2b)
Candidates will understand how written language may be used in response to
Cultural understanding
technology e.g. in studying multimedia texts (1.3c)
This unit engages with all The National Curriculum 2007 English Programme of
Critical understanding
Study elements of Competence (1.4 a-d)
Links to functional skills:
This unit embeds the functional elements of English reading and writing and therefore covers all the skills
standards for these elements.
Key questions for this unit:
Can candidates transfer reading skills to any non-fiction text, employing various reading strategies and being able
to make informed comments about texts?
Can candidates adapt writing skills to produce texts that are fit for purpose?
Throughout this unit, students should be reminded of the need for accuracy in their writing. Starter activities could
be used to focus on spelling and or aspects of grammar as necessary.
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Schemes of work
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Schemes of work
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Teacher Resource Bank
Schemes of work
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Schemes of work
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Notes:
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Notes:
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