A complete eight-lesson unit of work for Eduqas GCSE Media Studies Component 1, built around The Sun newspaper (22 March 2025 front page) as the new set text (incoming year 9).

Each lesson includes full slide content, a pupil booklet with gap-fills, annotation tasks, exam-style questions and exemplar answers pitched at realistic Year 10 level.

Teacher answers are provided for every interactive task.

8 Full Direction Instruction Lessons:

1. Ownership, circulation and audience demographics
2. Codes and conventions of tabloid newspapers
3. Media language analysis and annotating the set text
4. Social, cultural and political contexts
5. Representation of gender, age and events
6. Audience theory including Uses and Gratifications
7. IPSO, self-regulation and the Leveson Inquiry
8. Technology, convergence and The Sun’s digital presence

Built on direct instruction principles using Doug Lemov’s Teach Like a Champion strategies throughout, including:

• Cold Call
• Stop and Jot
• Whiteboards and visualisers
• No Opt Out
• I Do/We Do/You Do
• Core vocabulary
• Turn and Talk

Exam questions are modelled closely on real Eduqas Component 1 Section A and Section B question types, with exemplar answers at weak, satisfactory and strong Year 10 levels.

All content is cross-referenced against the Eduqas specification and past paper question directory.

Suitable for Year 10 and Year 11.

Included: Fully editable Word and PowerPoints. PDF pupil booklet also included.

Full scheme written by a HOD and teacher with over 25 years experience.

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