AQA GCSE English Unit 3: Understanding and Producing Creative Texts Workbook

Summary:
This workbook for AQA GCSE English will help build your understanding by answering questions on all key topics.
For use either in class or for homework, this full colour Workbook provides stimulus materials on all the topics in the unit. These are followed by sets of questions designed to develop and test skills. Additional exam-style questions will help you put what you have learned into practice ready for the unit exam. Answers are available online at www.hodderplus.co.uk/philipallan/workbooks so you can check and assess your responses.
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Table of Contents:
Introduction
The ladder of skills
Essay writing
Part A Understanding creative texts (literary reading)
Writing essays on prose texts
Characterisation and voice
Aspects of genre and form
Theme
Sample extracts
Quotations
Part B Producing creative texts (creative writing)
Re-creations (taking a text and turning it into another)
Me, myself and I (writing from personal experience)
Write-ons (taking a prompt and developing writing from it)

About the Author(s):
Martin J Walker has 15 years experience as a teacher of English. He also has 20 years experience in GCSE examinations. He now trains teachers in assessment methods and has written our series of AQA English Workbooks.