Explanations of tasks for students The tutorials on this site can be followed in any way you choose. Teachers may direct pupils to the tutorials for independent study. Users of this site may just want to explore some of the texts covered here. If you want support for GCSE Wide Reading, you should follow the individual tutorials on each text and the comparative wide reading tutorial. Click here to go back to top of page and choose one of these three from the menu above my welcome banner: you can follow the tutorials in any order. The range of texts covered by these tutorials will (I hope) grow to cover a wider range of texts. I will be glad to add links to other tutorial pages.

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GCSE criteria and the National Curriculum These are AQA/NEAB's criteria for assessment of Wide Reading coursework for particular grades at GCSE. This assessment is marked for reading only, but may be carried out by a speaking and listening task.
Grade G: Candidates show response to the texts' explicit meaning and purpose particular episodes main characters	Grade F: Candidates show awareness when describing similarities and differences in subject matter main features of character and plot how the stories are told
Grade E: Candidates show familiarity when describing similarities and differences in purposes of texts variety of character/situation/narration impact on readers	Grade D: Candidates show understanding when discussing similarities and differences in writers' attitudes and meanings narrative sequence and structure the writers' language
Grade C: Candidates show insight when discussing similarities and differences in implications and relevance of texts style, structure and characters writers' characteristic uses of language	Grade B: Candidates show analytical skill when exploring implications, contemporary relevance and historical context of texts style, structure and characterisation language as characteristic of writer and period
Grade A: Candidates show analytical and interpretative skill when evaluating moral and philosophical context of texts significant achievements within prose fiction genre writers' inventiveness with language for emotive, ironic or figurative effect	Grade A*: Candidates show originality of analysis and interpretation when evaluating moral, philosophical and social significance of texts writers' narrative craft and appeal to reader patterns and details of language exploited for implication or suggestion
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