GCSE English Language Reading Comprehension Skills - teaching resource

GCSE English Language – Reading Comprehension Skills

Help your students build confidence and master the skills needed to succeed in the GCSE English Language Reading section with this three-lesson mini-unit. Designed to develop comprehension, analysis, and evaluation skills, this resource includes a 44-slide fully editable PowerPoint, 4 printable worksheets, and a reading comprehension task based on an extract from Jamaica Inn.

Resource highlights:

Lesson One

• Introduction to the Reading Fiction section of the GCSE English Language exam

• How to approach the exam task confidently

• Analysing an extract through first and second readings

• Understanding unfamiliar vocabulary, using context clues, and applying deduction skills

• Writing extended responses about language and meaning

Lesson Two

• How to reference the text effectively and integrate quotations

• Approaching structure-based questions with clarity

• Strategies for answering a 20-mark evaluation question

• A 45-minute assessment task to apply learning

Lesson Three

• Feedback and discussion of student responses

• Step-by-step walkthrough of all five GCSE-style assessment questions

• Exemplar model answers for each question

This resource is perfect for classroom teaching, exam preparation, intervention sessions, or independent study and contains everything needed to develop essential reading and comprehension skills for the GCSE English Language exam.

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