English · GCSE (Key Stage 4) · £5.99
Year 11 English
Scheme of Work
GCSE English Scheme of Work (SOW) — Year 11, Language & Lit
Fifty-six pages for the second GCSE year, which begins from an honest fact: Year 10 taught the whole course. One unit covers the single requirement that cannot be pre-taught (unseen texts), and the rest map a writing progression, reorganise four set texts by idea, teach reading against a clock, and plan the revision term from evidence rather than from a topic list.
£5.99The Year 11 scheme: 6 units, 56 pages
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- 1aUnseen Poetry, and Reading Without Preparation
- 1bWriting: Accuracy, Sustained Composition and the Twenty Per Cent
- 2aThe Four Set Texts, Deepened
- 2bReading Under Time: Both Language Papers
- 3aRevision by Diagnosis
- 3bExamination Technique and the Final Fortnight
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. New teaching finishes at Easter, because the examinations arrive in the middle of the summer term.
Every unit carries three responses to one question at different bands, with a note naming what actually moves an answer from one to the next. English is marked holistically, and that step is the hardest thing in the subject to explain in words.
The last two units are revision — planned properly, from banded evidence, rather than left as a gap in the calendar.
- Written to
- The GCSE subject content for English language and English literature (DfE, 2013) and the statutory programme of study for key stage 4 (DfE, 2014)
- Intended for
- heads of department, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent
- 56 pages · 15 sections
The sequence
What this scheme of work covers, unit by unit
The 6 units of the Year 11 English Scheme of Work, in teaching order, with the term each one runs in and the question it is built to answer.
1a
Unseen Poetry, and Reading Without Preparation
Autumn 1 · approx. 7 weeks · September – October
What do you do with a poem you have never seen, when you cannot look anything up?
1b
Writing: Accuracy, Sustained Composition and the Twenty Per Cent
Autumn 2 · approx. 7 weeks · November – December
If a fifth of the qualification is how you write it, when is that actually taught?
2a
The Four Set Texts, Deepened
Spring 1 · approx. 6 weeks · January – February
You know these four texts. What have you still not noticed about them?
2b
Reading Under Time: Both Language Papers
Spring 2 · approx. 6 weeks · February – April
You can do this reading. Can you do it in the minutes you are given?
3a
Revision by Diagnosis
Summer 1 · approx. 4 weeks · mid-April – early May
What is actually stopping this student, and how would you know in a banded subject?
3b
Examination Technique and the Final Fortnight
Summer 1–2 · approx. 4 weeks · May, to the first paper
How many marks are available for what this student already knows?
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Contents
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