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Knowledge Organisers: AQA Language Paper 1 – Fiction: Exploration in Creative Reading and Writing (80 marks) 1 hour 45 minutesPaper 2 – Non-Fiction: Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives (80 marks) 1 hour 45 minutesPage 2 & 3: Paper 1 Reading Q1 - 4Page 4 & 5: Paper 1 Writing Q5 Page 6 & 7: Paper 2 Reading Q1 – 4Page 8 & 9: Paper 2 Writing Q5 Page 10: Technical Accuracy in writing - SPAG
Example Question & Suggested structures for description or the story Timing: You must spend 45 minutes on this – 5 minutes planning – 40 minutes writing & checking 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 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
NON-FICTION WRITING AQA KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER Writing to: Build a clear, coherent, well developed viewpoint
PURPOSE-AUDIENCE-FORMAT-TONE Resources to remind you of how to format the different Non-Fiction Writing Tasks
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 ?