AQA GCSE Descriptive Writing - teaching resource

AQA GCSE Descriptive Writing

This comprehensive AQA GCSE English Language teaching resource is designed to help students master the skills needed for GCSE Descriptive Writing. The complete unit of work includes a 126-slide fully editable PowerPoint presentation and 32 accompanying worksheets, providing everything you need to teach descriptive writing step by step.

Lessons and activities cover:

• An introduction to descriptive writing and its key features

• Analysis of GCSE exam-style questions with picture stimulus and model answers

• Examples of high-level descriptive writing for discussion and evaluation

• Planning and structuring techniques, including the “zoom in and zoom out” method

• Using the five senses to create vivid imagery and atmosphere

• Mastering literary devices: metaphors, similes, personification, imagery, sentence variety, vocabulary, semantic fields, and show not tell

• Exploring the AQA mark scheme and assessing example responses against exam criteria

• Targeted strategies to improve writing skills and boost exam performance

This resource provides a lesson-by-lesson approach to developing descriptive writing techniques and preparing students for the AQA GCSE English Language exam.

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