Service Description

Phase 2 Class size: 1 teacher to 3 students Exam Boards: AQA GCSE, Pearson Edexcel GCSE/International GCSE and Cambridge IGCSE English Language Phase 2 develops reading, comprehension and analytical skills through fiction and non-fiction extracts, including 19th-century literature, autobiography and journalism. Lessons combine CGP activities, exam questions and mark schemes, adapted to students’ exam boards and abilities. Students practise inference, evidence selection, analysis of language and structure, comparison, summary and PPE (Point, Proof, Explain/Explore) responses. The focus shifts from identifying techniques to explaining writers’ choices and their effects, with emphasis on exam technique and timing. 1. Don't Ask Jack + Mark Scheme Practise exam-style comprehension, inference and characterisation. Select precise evidence and use the mark scheme to distinguish basic, developed and perceptive responses. 2. The Fire-Eaters Analyse how vocabulary, imagery, sentence choices and narrative viewpoint establish character, tension and atmosphere. Support interpretations with quotations. 3. Edexcel – Dracula Tackle challenging older fiction, infer unfamiliar vocabulary from context and analyse atmosphere and tension. Use Edexcel criteria to evaluate and improve responses. 4. Edexcel – The Woman in White Explore 19th-century fiction through character, setting, suspense and narrative voice. Explain significant language choices and their effects. 5. Matthew Paris – Parenting (Paper 2) Identify a non-fiction writer’s attitude and arguments. Explore tone, rhetoric, persuasion and how language communicates views on parenting. 6. The Clan of the Cave Bear Analyse how environment, character and experience are presented through imagery, sensory description and structural choices. 7. Jay Rayner – Paper 2 Explore journalistic voice, humour, tone, exaggeration and persuasive language. Consider how writing is shaped for its audience and purpose. 8. Mr Fisher Consolidate independent fiction comprehension, language and structure analysis, and produce an extended exam-style response. Phase 2 Outcomes: Analyse texts with increasing independence, choose relevant evidence and use mark schemes to improve the precision and quality of examination answers.