Features

• ‘Getting started’ feature provides a warm-up task at the start of each unit, to help you assess what students already know about the topic.
• Varied activities with step-by-step support help students progress towards developing key skills, including evaluation, analysis and inference.
• ‘Set text activity’ feature provides skills-based activities that can be applied to set texts, providing opportunities for students to explore the chosen set texts in more depth.
• Annotated sample answers at different levels help students understand the success criteria and encourage evaluation of their own work.
• Concise strategy tips throughout each chapter provide additional support for developing key skills.
• Key terms are highlighted in the text with precise definitions, covering subject-specific vocabulary and literary devices.
• ‘Further reading’ recommendations including poems, plays and prose encourage a lifelong enjoyment of reading.
• ‘Reflection’ feature encourages students to assess their approach to their work and consider how to adapt and improve.
• ‘Check your progress’ feature provides a summary at the end of each unit, as well as activities and practice questions to consolidate key learnings.
• Self-assessment checklists at the end of each unit help learners assess what they have learnt and consider areas for improvement.
• This publication is still in development, so the accessibility information is currently unknown. We aim for our publications to meet WCAG 2.2 AA. An updated accessibility summary will be provided once available.