AQA English Language Paper 1, Reading Section Overview

This resource would be best enlarged onto A3 and could be used during teaching this paper, before an assessment or after a marked piece of work in order for students to make improvements.

This focuses solely on the reading section of Language Paper 1 and uses ‘The Life of Pi’ (2023 exam) as its focus. It is three pages in length. They sections could be potentially highlighted by students or folded to look less overwhelming and to seem more like a bookmark style tool.

This is a grid which includes

• the key things to remember about the reading section
• emphasis on the importance of the context box at the top of the extract
• what each question looks like (based on ‘The Life of Pi’ 2023 paper)
• questions they should ask themselves for each question to help reading for meaning
• how to plan (or what I tell mine to do)
• what should be included to gain specific levels with a short example
• sentence openers
• a rough breakdown of marks for grade boundaries
• the mark scheme with bracketed simplification of some words for students to understand