LIT SKILLS SERIES INFO

Click the video for more information. In this session from 2021, we focus on the strategies needed in order to ensure quotation retention for GCSE students. We discuss how to select the most valuable quotations, how to introduce them as you read, then how to stagger and build to retrieval. We then focus on how to expand students’ knowledge around the quotation, and then longer term resources for embedding quotations.

Click the video for more information! This session aims to cover ways to ensure students get the top grades in English Literature, including what examiners are looking for and practical ways to engage students in the top of the mark scheme. It covers how to access the ‘critical’ top level, treating the text as a construct, how to build an argument, use of vocabulary and then tips for developing students beyond the classroom.

This session follows on from the previous session in the ‘Pushing to the next level’ series – more information on this here. It is in this series as it works well alongside the grade 7+ session, where we focus specifically on how to move students from level 4 (grade 5-6) into level 5 (grade 7-8).

The session begins by examining and understanding level 4. We then look at examples from a range of texts – Macbeth, AIC, ACC, J&H, R&J, and both AQA poetry clusters. We then deconstruct the expectations and features of level 5, and compare examples of each of the text responses at level 5 to the level 4 examples. We then look at the findings from these comparisons and specific teaching strategies to move students up the level.