AQA Paper 2 Language: Section A - Closer Reading Skills

A thorough lesson with resources that explores the understanding of closer reading and how to apply these skills in exam situations. Can be used to suit both lower ability and higher ability students. Activities aid to stretch the idea of implicit meaning and how to dig deep when analysing both word and image.

Key Elements:

• Identifying key details in a text and selecting a range of relevant quotations to support findings.
• Recall activities from both word and image. (images supplied)
• Recall activities - closer reading tasks using: Fergal Keane ‘Letter to Daniel’
• and Owen Jones ‘There’s More Bleak News for Young People’ 2015.
• Analysis of word and phrase, using ‘Letter to Daniel.’
• Non Fiction ‘comment’ article or ‘opinion’ piece, using Owen Jones extract.

Resources include:

• 15 page Powerpoint
• Both reading extracts
• Collection Grids
• Images for recall tasks