Accessing a CGP Online Edition by using a code from a printed CGP book grants you access to the title for three years from the date of activation of the code. Another source of good non-fiction writing is, of course, the internet – you may have heard of it. So, make a habit of reading lots of news articles in full every day, not just the headlines, and not just from one source.

So, what this all boils down to is this: some students simply do not read beyond the bare minimum of engagement with written language (instructions, signs, social media) that is required for day-to-day life. Of those that do read beyond this bare minimum, many do not read enough, or enough of the genres of text most useful for GCSE preparation. Writing lists of book recommendations is a mug’s game. Lists, by their very nature, are incomplete so there will always be something missing. Moreover, lists of books, especially fiction recommendations, are likely to be very subjective and rooted in a particular time and place. A list written by someone in Norfolk in the mid 21st century will be different from a list written by someone in Sri Lanka, Gabon or Mexico.

OCR Literature Texts

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Codes are used to transfer access provisions to other users. School customers will be given Codes on printed vouchers so they can provide students with access to titles. The new texts offer rich opportunities to engage with issues and ideas that will resonate with young people, introduce further great writers to our course and improve the overall balance of ethnicity and gender of writers. The new, additional poetry cluster is modern, but also rooted in the revolutionary spirit of the Romantics to help ignite young people's enthusiasm for poetry. The best starting point is, naturally, my own collection of non-fiction model answers. Beyond that, have a look at some of these texts below which all demonstrate good English style of the level that would attract marks from an examiner: excellent vocabulary, long detailed paragraphs, well-structured arguments, emotive and descriptive language used where relevant. The texts are also good resources for knowledge about history, culture, politics etc, snippets of which could be useful in an exam answer. The collections of speeches are also useful because a speech task is often set by examiners.

Consider, for example, what would happen if you put someone on the spot and asked them to write an Anglo-Saxon style alliterative poem, in Old English, complete with caesurae and kenning. Few would know where to start because few are familiar with that particular genre, or indeed, that early version of what is now Modern English. There is a brilliant selection of modern plays and novels available for pupils in the new GCSE reading list, some of which have been studied at schools for decades. We're making these changes because it matters that current and future generations of young people have an opportunity to experience a diverse, balanced, inclusive English Literature curriculum that resonates with their lives and better reflects modern Britain." BBC Sounds offers a fantastic set of free GCSE English Literature revision podcasts that cover many of the most studied set texts, including Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Blood Brothers, Jane Eyre, and An Inspector Calls. So, give yourself an edge in the exam hall by knowing your set texts really well. If you know what Ross and the Old Man talk about, if you know whether Mrs Birling‘married up’ or ‘married down’, if you know “what happen to de Caribs,” then you have read well and should hope to excel in your exam.

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Familiar works like Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm feature on the list, but there are some recent additions worthy of reading. Meera Syal’s debut novel Anita and Me is a funny, moving story of a young Indian girl coming of age in Northern England. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is another must read book on the list. As a work straddling science fiction, horror and coming of age it defies definition, and is a poignant story of children who grow up to confront a terrible truth.

CCEA Literature Texts

For some students, the writing required at GCSE is almost as unfamiliar as a text from the deep past. Few students read fiction and, of those, few read short stories. Few students read non-fiction prose and those that do so may not have familiarity with the quality required by examiners – a thread of discontinuous snippets on social media is not the same as a single piece of continuous prose. Finally, few students will ever read an essay on a literary text. Hence my recommendations below. Therefore, I recommend that you read lots of texts, especially focusing on the three main genres that GCSE students are required to write in exams: short story, non-fiction, literature essay. Of course, other genres are set for reading, and then writing essays about, in GCSE English Literature exams (poetry and drama) so familiarity with these is also useful.