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Literacy in context for AQA A
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003
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207 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
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9780521535281
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Summary

Summary

Supporting students from reading through to language work and on to writing for specific purposes. * Focus on non-fiction and media - each unit helps students to analyse a particular text type. Opportunities for comparing and contrasting texts are provided throughout the book. * One student text for both years - a cost-effective resource that is differentiated to cater for both Foundation and Higher tiers, giving you maximum flexibility in the classroom. * Separate study guide to help students boost their grades - each unit helps students tackle a sample exam question, using a clear, step-by-step approach. The Study Guide is also ideal as a homework book. * A Teacher's Portfolio supports the Student's Book, containing copymasters with additional language practice, as well as extension material for more able students.


Table of Contents

Comparing media texts: Writing to analyse, review and comment on film
Analysing print-media advertisements
Analysing moving-image advertisements
Comparing news reports
Comparing print-media advertisements
Reading and writing non-fiction and literary non-fiction: Writing to argue
Writing to persuade
Writing to advise
Writing to inform
Writing to explain
Writing to describe
Approaches to original writing: Writing to imagine
Writing biography and autobiography
Reading and comparing poetry: Reading and responding to poems from different cultures and traditions
Comparing poems by Seamus Heaney and Gillian Clarke
Comparing poems by Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage
Reading and responding to post-1914 prose
Language and techniques of 20th-century drama
Reading and responding to Shakespeare
Glossary of English and English Literature terms
Glossary of examiner's terms
Overview of the AQA specifications A for English and English Literature