GCSE English Language Writing Workshops Digital Student Book (1 Year) School Site Licence
Overview
The Writing Workshops provide a practice-based approach to developing writing skills for GCSE English Language. Suitable for all specifications, this enhanced digital resource will inspire students as writers at GCSE and beyond. The resource draws on DfE and NATE guidance and the authors’ experience in successfully running writing workshops at GCSE for many years. Students are helped to understand the writing process. The Cambridge Elevate-enhanced Edition includes rich video content, including interviews with writers and broadcasters. Available online and on tablet devices through the Cambridge Elevate app.
Features
- Cambridge Elevate enhanced editions are fully customisable and interactive, with extensive annotation and bookmarking tools making texts more accessible for students.
- Cambridge Elevate enhanced editions include rich digital content created by English teachers with students’ needs in mind.
- Cambridge Elevate enhanced editions allow teacher–student messaging, helping you connect with your class in a timely and practical way.
- Available online and on tablet devices through the Cambridge Elevate app.
- Suitable for all GCSE specifications.
- A practice-based approach to developing writing skills, with a specific focus and outcome.
- Includes creative, narrative, descriptive and discursive writing tasks which build communication, organisation and accuracy skills.
- Resources are suitable for all ability levels.
- Free Cambridge Elevate Teacher’s Resources with each Cambridge Elevate-enhanced Edition allow for easy linking and cross reference, and provide comprehensive planning support with additional opportunities for differentiation and extension.
Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Word power
- 2. Setting the scene
- 3. This is how to organise writing. No it isn't.
- 4. Lists in a sentence
- 5. Lists of three
- 6. The power of speech
- 7. Banning words
- 8. Don't stop the train 1
- 9. Don't stop the train 2
- 10. Language bites
- 11. Pitching in
- 12. Instruct and advise with style
- 13. Create drama and suspense
- 14. It was a dark and stormy sentence
- 15. Pete can't speak, but you can
- 16. In someone else's shoes
- 17. Which side are you on?
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
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