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This is a group of photocipable templates or frameworks which prepare students for GCSE (any exam board) English Language and English Literature.
This resource contains:
- notes for teachers
- notes and templates for:
- analysing a novel - simple structure
- analysing a novel - complex structure
- analysing main characters in a novel
- analysing minor characters ina novel
- analysing language in a novel
- completing a book review
- analysing a poem
- analysing the content of a play
- analysing a media text
- analysing a print advert
- analysing a filmed advert
- comparing and contrasting
- creative writing
- creating your own story - structure
- creating your own story - characters
- checking your own story
- explanations
- "for and against" essays
- peruasive essays
- discursive essays
- argumentative essays
- preparing a brochre
- writing an informal letter
- preparing a presentation
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Notes for Teachers
Frameworks is a group of charts which will help your students analyse texts they have read, produce their own texts and evaluate their own or each others' writing. As they work their way through the various frames, they will gradual acquire the necessary analytical, presentational and planning skills which will enable them to obtain higher marks for their work.
We are providing this resource in electronic from. This means that you need never lose the original resource in the content form supplied to you.You can customise it to fit the particular circumstances in which you are working. For example, you may wish to produce one of the poetry analysis sheets for each poem you are studying from the student's anthology. You may also provide the frameworks on a computer network for a class of pupils. They will then be able to alter the dimensions of the frames to suit what they are writing. Or, if you require paper copies, you can simply print off whichever you wish to use and photocopy them.
You will need to provide the raw materials yourself.
For the analytical frames, this will normally be the poems, novels and plays you are using as set books. But you could also encourage your students to use the frames for analysing other texts that they have read. The book review frame might be a good option here. You could use the compare and contrast frames to work on set materials and students' own reading.
For the Creative Writing and story telling frames, many of the ideas may come from the students themselves. You could also use something which all of the students have experienced to maximise the memory input into the Creative Writing frame - perhaps a day trip to France or a few days at school camp. Or use this in class and get them to think about their own for homework.
For Explanations, For and Against essays, Persuasive essays, Discursive essays, Arguing, Media Essays and Formal Letters, you will need to provide yourself and your students with a list of topics. The classroom newspaper / magazine box comes into its own here, and you could open a lesson by giving the students ten minutes to rummage and find a few themes.
This box will also be a great resource for finding print adverts to be analysed.
For visual adverts, you could fill a video tape with advertising, or look on the Internet with the students. You might even consider using foreign language ones. This will help students with the language they are studying. Also, because they will not understand every word easily, they will concentrate more on the visual aspects of the advert. They will also to some extent look beyond their own culture.
Preparing presentations and informal letters are likely to be very individual. Again, it may be worth working with the Modern Languages Department and using the exchange school as a focus for these activities.
Production of a brochure could also be for a specific purpose. One popular theme is making a brochure about the school, but from the students' point of view. These are always more effective when students have a real audience.
Using these frames just once will not automatically lead to a good GCSE result. In fact, if they are used for course work, heavily directed by the teacher, one could be in breach of coursework rules. Students should try them out several times, until they have acquired the habit of planning their work this way without the prop of the frame.
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