AQA A Lit: World War One: Wider Reading Pack for A Level

The Wider Reading: World War One Pack for A Level meets the examiners recommendations and more to help your students develop the right skills for this examination.

Classroom ready, which is what every teacher wants to hear!

F Marshall, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

A rich and comprehensive bank of extracts, teaching notes, comparison exercises, planning exercises and practice questions, specifically developed to support Unit 1 AQA A. The pack encourages thematic linking, genre comparisons and helps to prepare students for Section A of their examination.

  • Extracts from a range of prose fiction, prose non-fiction, poetry and drama have been carefully selected and collated into the following themes for focussed study:
    • The Reality of War
    • Man’s Inhumanity to Man
    • Patriotism
    • Politics
    • The physical/mental/spiritual effects of war
    • The role of women/the home front

  • Themed exercises and notes encourage students to compare the given extracts and to analyse their own wider reading
  • Glossaries of poetic, literary and dramatic terms help students understand and use the correct terminology in the examination.

Planning exercises and practice questions to help develop the skills needed for success in the exam.

The fact that context, backgrounds and other information such as wider reading are approached from multiple angles suggests a clear focus on enriched learning

E Evans, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

What do teachers say about this resource? (4753)

Classroom ready, which is what every teacher wants to hear! This is a really valuable resource. I was impressed with the detail and diversity that this resource offered both for teachers and students. The range of wider reading was excellent and sensitively arranged. The extracts for comparison were sensitively chosen and accessible by all ability levels whilst the accompanying teachers notes would make planning with this resource very simple.

F Marshall, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

Clear and easy to follow, with clear thematic comparisons between texts. It helps students appreciate how literature reflects a wide range of feelings about WW1 and contextual influences upon the writing.

M Render, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

The strength of this resource is that it is looking more at skills than at content and this is crucial in success at AS and A2. I can see this being a resource where individual sheets can be given for homework and also where it could be placed on a "network" for students to work through as an independent resource.

C Allison, HoD & Peer Reviewer

Nicely executed and massively thorough. The fact that context, backgrounds and other information such as wider reading are approached from multiple angles suggests a clear focus on enriched learning. I'm really keen on the teacher's notes following up each set of handouts and study sections. The extracts are all clearly signposted with titles, writers and page numbers where appropriate, without spoon-feeding; this is a great way to encourage additional investigation of texts. A Level students would be richer in many ways through this course.

E Evans, Teacher & Peer Reviewer