GCSE English Language: Reading Non-Fiction Texts

Build the non-fiction reading skills students need for GCSE English Language with this classroom-ready unit. Suitable for AQA, Pearson Edexcel, Eduqas and other courses, it develops students’ ability to retrieve information, make inferences, analyse writers’ methods, evaluate arguments and compare viewpoints.

The resource includes:

- 182-slide editable PowerPoint
- 31-page worksheet booklet
- 10 sequenced lessons
- GCSE-style questions and model responses
- Guided, paired and independent activities
- Peer assessment, revision and exam practice

Students explore audience and purpose; fact, opinion and attitude; summary and synthesis; bias and counterarguments; non-fiction structure; and language and rhetorical techniques. They practise critical evaluation and comparison using clear examples, writing frames and structured tasks before answering questions independently.

Teach the full ten-lesson unit or choose individual lessons for intervention and revision.

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