GCSE English skills card sort
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Help students consolidate their knowledge and understanding of the GCSE English Language and Literature exam papers, related texts and necessary skill sets.
What's included
An interactive card sort resource to help students evolve their understanding of each major aspect of their GCSE English Language and Literature exams:
- Free printable PDF card sort activity for students to reinforce their knowledge about English Language Paper 1 and 2 and English Literature exams.
- For subscribers only, an adaptable and customisable card sort resource.
GCSE English skills card sort
Included in the resource are three different card sort activities: one for GCSE English Language Section A for both papers, one for GCSE English Language Section B for both papers, and one for both GCSE English Literature papers.
Each of the three card sort activities are designed to help students assess how confident they feel in the various skills required for GCSE English Language and Literature.
The aim of this extensive revision and reinforcement resource is to enable students to identify the specific skills required for reading sections, writing sections and literature sections. This is to help them zoom in on the skills they feel comfortable with and consider themselves to be proficient in, and the areas which need further work and development to help them improve their performance over all of the GCSE English Language and Literature papers.
Key features of this resource
This card sort resource is organised in three distinct sections:
1. GCSE English Language reading skills
2. GCSE English Language writing skills
3. Skills related to both English Literature papers.
Students can take one card sort at a time. They can put the items for each card sort into two piles: those they feel confident about and those that need more development. There may be some overlap, where students feel somewhat confident but need more clarity around specific skills. These can go in a third pile, if required.
The groups can be honed further and ranked in order of most to least confident by arranging in a line. These could then form the basis of priorities for revision or for arranging pupils into groups based on their main focus areas.
Cards can be personalised to reflect the different texts and poetry clusters being studied. Students can use these card sort activities in pairs, groups or for homework tasks.
How to use this GCSE English skills card sort resource
This resource is perfect for:
- Building understanding of each GCSE English Language and Literature exam paper
- Group, pair or individual activities
- Revision sessions and exam or assessment preparation
- Reinforcing analytical skills at KS4
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A sample extract from the resource:
GCSE English skills card sort Language Paper Section A reading skills
- Reading an unseen text for the first time and understanding it.
- Reading through a text and finding key language features.
- Understanding and remembering the names and meanings of different language and literary devices.
- Finding evidence and quotations from a text to support a point you’re writing about in your answer.
GCSE English skills card sort Language Paper Section B writing skills
- Using features specific to descriptive and narrative writing.
- Crafting an interesting opening and ending to a piece of writing.
- Thinking of ideas for creative writing based on a prompt in the exam.
- Structuring a line of argument in my own writing.
GCSE English skills card sort English Literature skills
- Knowing and understanding a modern drama text, like An Inspector Calls.
- Making comparisons between poems from your poetry anthology.
- Analysing writers’ methods and their effects on readers.
- Understanding questions in the literature exams, and what they require of you.
