For effective language teaching at Key Stage 4. Full of invaluable advice on how best to approach revision, answer exam questions and improve your grades! This book provides lots of practice for GCSE English exams with every unit giving you the opportunity to tackle a sample exam writing task. The easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach means the guide is also ideal as a self-study homework book.

 

This book is part of a book series called Literacy in Context .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 4. KS4 covers school years 10 and 11, and ages 15-16 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Cambridge University Press .

Tony Parkinson is an experienced examiner, with expertise in assessing English from age 11-16. Tony has over 20 years of experience as a teacher trainer for English. He also co-wrote Essential First Language English for Cambridge IGCSE.

This book has the following chapters: 1. Starting points; 2. Non-fiction texts; 3. Media texts; 4. Writing; 5. Revising for the exam; 6. The day itself - five steps to improve your grade.