OCR A Level Newspaper Set Texts

A complete OCR A-Level Media Studies lesson analysing The Guardian and Daily Mail set newspaper texts, with a printable PDF resource.

This fully editable PowerPoint (.pptx) lesson focuses on the OCR A-Level Media Studies News & Online / Newspapers set texts for Paper 1 Section A, supporting students in analysing The Guardian and The Daily Mail front pages.

The lesson recaps key newspaper knowledge, including newspaper type, ownership, political alignment and editorial influence, before guiding students into a detailed analysis of the set texts. Students consider how media language, representation, political and social contexts, audience and purpose shape meaning across the two newspapers.

The lesson uses an I Do / We Do / You Do structure to model analysis before students complete their own front page analysis. It includes teacher modelling on the Daily Mail, focusing on headline construction, typography, authority, urgency and political bias. Students are then guided to apply the same approach to both set texts.

This resource includes a printable PDF front page analysis resource, allowing students to annotate, structure and develop their analysis of the OCR newspaper set products.

This lesson covers:

OCR A-Level Media Studies
Paper 1 Section A: News & Online
Newspapers
The Guardian
Daily Mail
OCR set texts
Newspaper front page analysis
Media language
Representation
Political context
Social context
Audience and purpose
Ownership
Scott Trust Limited
DMGT
Political alignment
Left-wing and right-wing newspapers
Newspaper ideology
Headline analysis
Typography
Layout and composition
Political bias
Set product revision
A-Level exam preparation

What is included:

Fully editable PowerPoint (.pptx) lesson
Printable PDF front page analysis resource
Do Now retrieval task on The Guardian and Daily Mail
Teacher feedback/model answer slide
Lesson objectives
Recap of OCR A-Level newspaper set texts
Ownership recap for The Guardian and Daily Mail
Political alignment recap
I Do / We Do / You Do set text analysis structure
Model analysis of Daily Mail headline construction
Model analysis of typography, capitalisation and authority
Political bias analysis task
Model analysis of Boris Johnson framing in the Daily Mail
Student analysis task for The Guardian and Daily Mail set texts
Prompts for media language, representation, political/social contexts, audience and purpose
Theorist link prompts
Political alignment mini plenary

This resource can be used as:

A full A-Level lesson on OCR newspaper set text analysis
A Paper 1 Section A: News & Online lesson
A lesson comparing The Guardian and Daily Mail
A revision lesson for OCR A-Level newspaper set products
A front page annotation and analysis lesson