English

Newspapers, novels, magazines, autobiographies, travel writing…try to step outside of

your comfort zone and select texts that are challenging and different from what you normally read.

Write widely:

Different forms- letters, articles, reviews…different purposes- inform, explain, persuade. Practise planning,

writing and reviewing and editing your work.

Use the formulas, sample questions and answers, mark schemes and examiners feedback along with the

toolkit to help you tackle the practice questions in the booklets.

Search for Mr Bruff and Mr Davies- use these to help you to make detailed notes about your exam topics.

Use the ‘Pearson’ revision guide and workbook from Year 10 and the Target Revision Guides (from school) to

help you to revise- work together in study groups so you can verbalise and talk through responses to texts.

Practise writing tasks with a dictionary and thesaurus by your side- edit and review your work at the end

asking yourself- does this vocabulary add to the intended impact/ effect?

Ensure that you are clear about your strengths and areas for development- do you need to practise all of the

skills or just some of them? Speak to your teacher if you are unsure. Attend the ‘English Homework Club’ on

Thursdays after school if you want further advice.

Charity leaflets, newspaper articles, editorials… identify GAP (genre, audience, purpose), highlight and

underline key words that help the reader achieve their purpose, consider how the structure (opening,

ending, order of ideas) and the use of punctuation heightens the effect on the reader.

Find Edexcel past papers on Google Classroom, the Edexcel website and in your exam booklets- bring them

to your teachers for marking.

Ensure that you are rereading and annotating your literature texts and your poetry anthology so that you

know the texts really well each time add to your notes.