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Shared Language Skills
Critical Reading and Comprehension
3.1.1 - Reading for purpose and navigating unseen textsWithin 3.1.1, you will learn how to establish the gist of an unseen text, decide what your reading purpose demands and navigate back to the most relevant part. This matters because the same substantial text may be read for story, information, viewpoint or usefulness, and each purpose changes wher...
3.1.1 - Retrieving information and drawing supported inferencesSome answers come straight from a text; others must be worked out from clues. This lesson covers 3.1.1 and AO1 by showing how purposeful rereading helps you identify explicit information, interpret implicit ideas and justify an inference with evidence. You will learn to separate a defensible infe...
3.1.1 - Selecting precise evidence and supporting a point of viewThis lesson focuses on one decision: choosing textual evidence that genuinely supports a point of view. You will learn to test relevance, keep only the smallest sufficient detail and explain the connection between wording and claim. This matters because a confident statement is not convincing unl...
3.1.1 - Explaining how language choices create meaning and effectA writer's language does more than name what happens: it can make us understand a character, place or moment in a particular way. You will learn to move from a passage's meaning to one precise choice in vocabulary or grammar, then explain the effect that choice creates. This matters because accur...
3.1.1 - Analysing form and structure across a whole textIn 3.1.1, you will track how a text's form and arrangement change meaning across the whole text; AO2 asks you to explain how those choices achieve effects and influence readers. You will turn a beginning-to-ending movement into an evidence-led explanation instead of collecting feature names. This...
3.1.1 - Evaluating claims, evidence, bias and alternative readingsIn 3.1.1, you will learn how to test a claim against a text instead of agreeing with it automatically. You will judge how useful, relevant and fairly presented the evidence is, notice bias or misuse of evidence, and consider alternative readings. This matters because a convincing evaluation makes...
3.1.1 - Summarising and synthesising ideasIn 3.1.1, you will identify main themes, condense one text into a concise summary, and synthesise ideas from more than one text. These AO1 moves build on supported inference and precise evidence selection: first decide what the text means, then keep only what serves the focus. This matters whenev...
3.1.1 - Comparing ideas, perspectives and methodsThis lesson develops the 3.1.1 comparison skill: identifying how two writers' ideas or perspectives relate and explaining how each writer conveys them. You will combine precise summary with attention to language, form, grammar and structure, so comparison grows from meaning rather than matched la...
Effective Writing and Technical Control
3.1.2 - Adapting audience, purpose, form, tone and registerIn 3.1.2, you need to write effectively for different audiences and purposes, including describing, narrating, explaining, instructing, giving and responding to information, and arguing. AO5 asks you to select and adapt tone, style and register for the form, purpose and audience, so the choices m...
3.1.2 - Selecting and developing ideas with a consistent viewpointStrong writing grows from a small number of relevant ideas, not every detail available. You will learn to select information supplied by others, develop it into a clear line of thought, cite evidence or quotation pertinently, and keep one viewpoint consistent. This matters whenever you write to e...
3.1.2 - Organising writing for coherence, cohesion and emphasisA reader cannot see the plan in your head: the writing must reveal how one idea leads to the next. You will learn how coherence gives a whole text a clear route, cohesion connects nearby ideas, and emphasis makes the most important point land. These decisions help facts, ideas and key points work...
3.1.2 - Choosing vocabulary and imagery for precision and impactWithin 3.1.2, you will connect AO5's clear, imaginative communication with AO6's vocabulary choices for clarity, purpose and effect. You will decide what you mean and how you want a reader to respond, then select precise wording, imagery or rhetorical emphasis that does that job. This matters bec...
Paper 1 - Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing
Reading Literature Fiction
Descriptive and Narrative Writing
Paper 2 - Writers' Viewpoints and Perspectives
Reading Non-fiction and Literary Non-fiction
Writing to Present a Viewpoint
Spoken Language
Preparing and Delivering the Endorsement Presentation