eRevision Guide: English and English Literature
James Durran and Jim Stewart
128
Feb 05
9781840708851Increase exam success
The eRevision Guide: English and English Literature is designed to help your students to work effectively on their own as they prepare for their exams in GCSE English and English Literature.
Complete coverage
After an opening section providing general advice, separate sections cover each part of the GCSE English and English Literature exams, addressing essential principles. A guide to technical terms and their application is also provided. The colourful layout and numerous cartoons and illustrations will help engage students, and aid memory when they come to sit their exams.
The material does not follow a particular syllabus. Instead, the principles and skills covered will give students a firm foundation that can apply to any specification.
Convenient format
The eRevision Guide is provided in PDF format, so it can be made available to students via a variety of routes:
- placing on the school network
- copying onto students’ home computers or laptops
- making available on the school website or a VLE (so long as access is password-protected)
- viewing on smartphones or e-readers.
Differentiated activities
To cater for the full ability range, many of the activities are divided into easy, less easy, and hard. This allows students to start with the easy activities, and work their way through, or to start with the less easy or hard activities.
Build essential skills
Each section of the book focuses on the essential skills that students need in English exams, making frequent reference to what the examiners are looking for and offering tips on how to approach the revision process. Sections include:
- General advice
- Reading unseen non-fiction and media texts
- Writing to argue, persuade or advise
- Writing to inform, explain or describe
- Revising a collection of poems
- Revising a novel
- Revising short stories
- Words to revise
- Reading exam questions.
Note that this product is also available as part of the Digital Library for English.
Contents
Introduction
General advice
- Looking back over your GCSE work
- Practising planning and writing
- The exam papers
- Reading exam questions
- Quoting
Reading unseen non-fiction and media texts
- What the examiners are looking for
- Tackling the exam paper
- Checklists of ideas
- Following an argument
- Comparing texts
- Quoting
- Practising planning and writing
- Other ways to prepare for this section
Writing to argue, persuade or advise
- What the examiners are looking for
- Tackling the exam paper
- Practising planning and writing
- Other ways to prepare for this section
Writing to inform, explain or describe
- What the examiners are looking for
- Tackling the exam paper
- Practising planning and writing
- Other ways to prepare for this section
Revising a collection of poems
- What the examiners are looking for
- Comparing the poems
- Tackling the exam paper
- Beginning your revision
- Social, historical and cultural context
- Quoting
- Practising planning and writing
- Other ways to revise a collection of poems
Revising a novel
- What the examiners are looking for
- Tackling the exam paper
- Beginning your revision
- How to practise skimming and scanning the text
- Social, historical and cultural context
- Quoting
- Practising planning and writing
- Other ways to revise a novel
Revising short stories
- What the examiners are looking for
- Comparing stories
- Tackling the exam paper
- Beginning your revision
- How to practise skimming and scanning the text
- Social, historical and cultural context
- Quoting
- Practising planning and writing
- Other ways to revise the stories
Words to revise
Reading exam questions
About the authors
Jim Stewart is Assistant Headteacher at St Peter’s School, Huntingdon, where he was formerly Head of English. James Durran is an Advanced Skills Teacher at Parkside Community College, Cambridge, where he was formerly Head of English, Media and Drama. He also tutors on English PGCE courses at Cambridge University Faculty of Education. Both Jim and James are involved in NATE at a local and national level, and in 1997 were the National Conference Officers. They have written several other titles for Pearson Publishing, including Running an English Department and Student Handbook for English.
Price details
- £50 for 50 licences.
- Additional licences 75p each.
Get in touch
For more information, please call 01223 350555 or email info@pearson.co.uk.