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458·English Language · GCSE

What the Text
Will Let You Say

Reading and inference knowledge mat for secondary schools

Every text in the exam is one you have never seen — so what is there to revise? Inference as a three-part answer shape; summary and synthesis; evaluation and bias; an extract written for the sheet, annotated four ways; an inference answer built in the order the marks are given; the DfE's own weightings for reading, writing and accuracy. Eight terms to define, a model answer on what a writer leaves out, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

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    One landscape A4 page on one skill, built on the DfE's own assessment objectives rather than a board's paraphrase. It carries inference, summary and synthesis, evaluation and bias, an annotated extract and an answer built in the order the marks are given — then the vocabulary, a worked exam-style answer and the misconceptions that cost marks.

    The extracts are written for the sheet, or out of copyright and verified against the text — so nothing is quoted from an anthology, a set text or a past paper, and the sheet can be photocopied for a class and stay compliant. Every claim is sourced, and the assessment objectives are quoted verbatim from the DfE document.

    Sold by subject: all four English Language sheets for one price. A knowledge organiser stores a unit and is revised from afterwards; this is meant to be on the table while the work is happening.

    Written to
    The DfE GCSE English language subject content (DFE-00232-2013), its assessment objectives quoted verbatim. Extracts are written for the sheet, or out of copyright and verified against the text
    Intended for
    English Language teachers — on the desk during the lesson, not a student revision guide
    Extent
    1 page · 9 sections

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

    01Inference: the answer shapep1
    02Summary, and then synthesisp1
    03Evaluation, and biasp1
    04Work this extract — written for this sheet, so nothing is quotedp1
    05Build an inference answer, in the order the marks are givenp1
    06The dfe’s own numbers, not a board’s paraphrasep1
    07Glossaryp1
    08Use this matp1
    09Common misconceptionsp1
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