Empower
Educators
All playbooks

203·English · GCSE · Pearson Edexcel

GCSE English
Pearson Edexcel

A working manual for a GCSE English department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, practice, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions actually get made. Part One is the only part that is board-specific, and it is quoted verbatim from the published specification.

  1. AO1Retrieve
  2. AO2Analyse
  3. AO3Compare
  4. AO4Evaluate
Preview — first 15 pages

49 pages · 19 sections · 🔒 34 more pages unlock on purchase

Cover of GCSE English — Pearson Edexcel

Written for this specification. Part One is board-specific and quoted verbatim from Pearson Edexcel's own document; everything after it is about how the assessment works and how students gain marks.

The assessment objectives are worded almost identically across boards and weighted differently, so this book covers Pearson Edexcel only. Check the board you teach before buying.

Written to
Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) English Language (1EN0) and English Literature (1ET0)
Intended for
For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide
Extent
49 pages · 19 sections

·Look inside

Real pages, straight from the PDF

Click any page to see it full size.

·Contents

All 19 sections

Taken from the booklet's own contents page, so the page numbers are the real ones.

PART ONE — THE QUALIFICATION

01Two GCSEs at a glancep6
02Two Pearson Language qualificationsp7
03English Language: the six objectivesp8
04Language: where the marks livep9
05English Literature: the four objectivesp10
06Command wordsp11
07The two-year journeyp12

PART TWO — CURRICULUM

08Knowledge, skills, application, performancep14
09Six sequencing principlesp15
10Prerequisite knowledge and the KS3 bridgep16
11Retrieval planningp17
12Curriculum health check (tool)p18

PART THREE — TEACHING

13Modelling and worked examplesp20
14Teaching analysisp21
15Teaching writingp22
16Differentiationp23
17New to the departmentp24
18Questioningp25
19EMPOWER EDUCATORS · GCSE ENGLISH PLAYBOOK · PEARSON EDEXCELp3