Planning and teaching

• English Language and English Literature two-year planner This two-year curriculum planner provides a suggested approach for schools co-teaching GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature. It breaks the course down into Language and Literature elements to be studied under particular topic areas. PDF 246KB

Delivery guides (PDF)

• Developing comparison skills This activity supports the development of comparison skills for components 01 and 02. PDF 186KB

• Accessibility of assessment materials - video Accessibility of assessment materials
• Unseen 20th and 21st century literary texts This guide provides a bank of unseen texts, suitable for the teaching and delivery of component 02.  Texts have been thematically linked to replicate exam requirements. PDF 2MB

• What's changed in GCSE English This guide, aimed at parents and students, takes you through the content and assessment of English at GCSE level and explains what’s changed in the new GCSE (9-1) English Language and GCSE (9-1) English Literature specifications. PDF 547KB

• Resources for teaching new texts available on Teach Cambridge
• Creative writing in English in exams and in the classroom
• English ‘subject terminology’ - precision or complication? How might it help rather than hinder?
• English: Resources for distance learning