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English Language and Literature Reading Skills Revision and Exam Practice: York Notes for GCSE (9-1)
(2018)
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Abstract
When it’s time to get serious about success, it’s time to get York Notes
To achieve top grades in English Language and Literature, you need to be confident in your reading skills. With everything you need right at hand, and suitable for all exam boards and abilities, this York Notes Revision and Exam Practice guide will help you to master the core skills, write brilliant responses and face your exams with confidence.
Learn and revise every essential skill – Use each of the dedicated sections to learn and revise key reading skills, from interpreting and analysing to commenting on and comparing texts, and how to apply them in the exam. With key definitions, examples from typical Language and Literature tasks, regular tests and ‘Top tips’ for improvement, you will feel confident you have covered all bases.
Stay focused and aim high – Use the mix of short and longer tasks to practise your skills and vary your revision. The targeted ‘Aiming high’ tips will to help you to perfect your techniques and write the very best answers you can.
Check your progress – Use the regular ‘Apply your skills’ tasks and ‘Progress check’ bullets to monitor what you have achieved. Use the full answer key provided to assess your improvement.
Feel ready for the exam – Regular quick tests and longer exam-style tasks with sample answers show the level to aim for.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | Front Cover | ||
| Contents | 3 | ||
| Chapter One: Core Reading Skills | 5 | ||
| 1.1: Understanding genre and form | 5 | ||
| Assessment Objectives | 5 | ||
| Genres and Forms | 5 | ||
| Identifying the Form Or Genre | 6 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 7 | ||
| 1.2: Identifying the purpose and theme | 8 | ||
| Primary and Secondary Purposes | 8 | ||
| Core Idea and Themes | 8 | ||
| Identifying Key Points | 9 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 9 | ||
| 1.3: Understanding audience and reader | 10 | ||
| Audience | 10 | ||
| Audience and Context | 11 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 11 | ||
| 1.4: Facts, statistics and opinions | 12 | ||
| Facts | 12 | ||
| Statistics | 12 | ||
| Opinion and Bias | 13 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 13 | ||
| 1.5: Character and voice | 14 | ||
| Character | 14 | ||
| Understanding Characterisation | 15 | ||
| Voice | 16 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 17 | ||
| 1.6: Language and style | 18 | ||
| Vocabulary | 18 | ||
| Style | 19 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 19 | ||
| 1.7: Understanding context | 20 | ||
| What is Context? | 20 | ||
| Historical Context | 20 | ||
| Social Context | 21 | ||
| Cultural Context | 22 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 23 | ||
| Chapter Two: Selecting and Interpreting Information | 24 | ||
| 2.1: Using quotations and evidence | 24 | ||
| Direct Quotations | 24 | ||
| Evidencing | 26 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 27 | ||
| 2.2: Identifying explicit and implicit information | 28 | ||
| Explicit Information | 28 | ||
| Implicit Information | 28 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 29 | ||
| 2.3: Interpreting information | 30 | ||
| Weighing Up Interpretations | 30 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 31 | ||
| 2.4: Summarising and synthesising information | 32 | ||
| Summary | 32 | ||
| Synthesis | 32 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 33 | ||
| Chapter Three: Analysing and Commenting on Writers’ Methods | 34 | ||
| 3.1: Writers’ methods and effects | 34 | ||
| Commenting on Writers’ Methods | 34 | ||
| Analysing Effects | 34 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 35 | ||
| 3.2: Vocabulary for effect | 36 | ||
| Vocabulary Choices | 36 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 38 | ||
| 3.3: Sentences for impact and meaning | 39 | ||
| Sentence Types | 39 | ||
| Questions | 40 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 40 | ||
| 3.4: Paragraphs and organisation | 41 | ||
| Paragraph Functions | 41 | ||
| Functions of Sentences within Paragraphs | 42 | ||
| Organisation | 43 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 43 | ||
| 3.5: Imagery and other literary techniques | 44 | ||
| Literary Devices | 44 | ||
| Imagery | 44 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 45 | ||
| 3.6: Poetic style and structure | 46 | ||
| Rhyme | 46 | ||
| Rhythm | 47 | ||
| Form | 48 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 49 | ||
| 3.7: Dramatic style and structure | 50 | ||
| Acts and Scenes | 50 | ||
| Staging | 50 | ||
| Speech and Movement Directions | 51 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 51 | ||
| 3.8: Evaluating texts | 52 | ||
| What is Evaluation? | 52 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 53 | ||
| Chapter Four: Comparing Texts | 54 | ||
| 4.1: What is comparison? | 54 | ||
| Comparing Similarities and Differences | 54 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 55 | ||
| 4.2: Analysing language for comparison | 56 | ||
| Conveying Viewpoint through Language | 56 | ||
| Analyse For Success | 57 | ||
| The Impact of Imagery | 57 | ||
| Sentences and Structure | 58 | ||
| Style and Tone | 58 | ||
| Putting it all Together | 59 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 59 | ||
| 4.3: Comparing poems | 60 | ||
| How to Approach Making a Comparison | 60 | ||
| Stage 1: Starting – The Overall Viewpoint | 61 | ||
| Stage 2: Annotating the Poems | 61 | ||
| Structure | 62 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 63 | ||
| Chapter Five: Applying Reading Skills in the Exam | 64 | ||
| 5.1: Decoding the question | 64 | ||
| The Process Involved and Content of the Question | 64 | ||
| Judging Your Response Against the Numberof Marks | 65 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 65 | ||
| 5.2: Reading unseen passages | 66 | ||
| Approaching Fiction and Non-Fiction Extracts | 66 | ||
| 5.3: Reading unseen poems | 68 | ||
| How to Approach an ‘Unseen’ Poem | 68 | ||
| First Reading | 68 | ||
| Second Reading | 69 | ||
| Applying Your Skills | 69 | ||
| Chapter Six: Putting it into Practice | 70 | ||
| 6.1: Introduction and Paper 1: Reading (Fiction) | 70 | ||
| Text A | 70 | ||
| 6.2: Paper 2: Reading (Non-fiction) | 73 | ||
| Text A | 73 | ||
| Text B | 74 | ||
| Chapter Seven: Answers and Glossary | 76 | ||
| Answers | 76 | ||
| Glossary | 86 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |