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Knowledge Organisers: AQA Language Paper 1 – Fiction: Exploration in Creative Reading and Writing (80 marks) 1 hour 45 minutes Paper 2 – Non-Fiction: Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives (80 marks) 1 hour 45 minutes Page 2 & 3: Paper 1 Reading Q1 - 4 Page 4 & 5: Paper 1 Writing Q5 Page 6 & 7: Paper 2 Reading Q1 – 4 Page 8 & 9: Paper 2 Writing Q5 Page 10: Technical Accuracy in writing - SPAG<br>
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AQA Narrative or Descriptive Writing<br>
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Timing: You must spend 45 minutes on this – 5 minutes planning – 40 minutes writing & checking Description
Use the following structure:
Drop – Give a wide view of what you see
Shift – Focus in on one element of what you are seeing/imagining using the picture
Zoom in – Focus on a minute detail
Zoom out – Move your attention to a larger detail Story
Use the following structure:
Introduction – focus on setting the scene by showing not telling
Build Up – create rising tension to show something is going to happen
Climax – the high point /action point in the story/ problem
Resolution – finalise the action or have something happen to resolve the problem Example Question & Suggested structures
for description or the story<br>
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NON-FICTION WRITING AQA KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER Writing to:
Build a clear, coherent, well developed viewpoint<br>
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PURPOSE-AUDIENCE-FORMAT-TONE
Resources to remind you of how to format the different Non-Fiction Writing Tasks<br>
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Technical Accuracy in any writing task Use in your writing and edit at the end:
Paragraphs – TIPTOP - Time, Place, Topic, Person = New Paragraph
Varied Sentence Types – Simple, compound & complex
Varied Sentence openers – PANIC – Use prepositions, adjectives and adverbs, nouns, ‘ing’ words, connectives – to vary the opening of your sentences
Capital letters – Start of sentence, I/I’m, Names of people and places
Comma use – in lists; embedded clauses; after connectives or adverbs at the start of the sentence
Apostrophes – in contractions (I’m); for possession John’s bag
Punctuation for effect - colons :, semi-colons ;, parenthesis (), exclamation mark !, question marks ?<br>
