An A-Z of Short Reading Texts

For GCSE French, Spanish and German

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Just amazing! Once you’ve tried it, you’ll want some more!...

...It helps my students to gain confidence in their understanding of written French

A-L Guichard, Tutor and Customer

This differentiated pack of engaging texts and exercises helps students navigate culturally relevant topics and gain the reading skills they need for the exam.


Creative and targeted learning

Students will:

  • study new vocabulary and improve lexical skills with a diverse range of topics and texts
  • recognise and understand grammatical features and apply these to non-verbal and verbal exercises
  • learn to extract important information from texts in preparation for the exam

Easy to fit into your scheme of work

  • No preparation needed! Use each stand-alone worksheet for exam revision, as homework or as cover lessons
  • Hand out foundation and higher-tier worksheets tailored to students' needs
  • Check answers for quick marking

  • Level of language matches the 2016 specifications for all boards

What do teachers say about this resource? (7212)

Just amazing! Once you’ve tried it, you’ll want some more! It helps my students to gain confidence in their understanding of written French.

A-L Guichard, Tutor and Customer

What do teachers say about this resource? (5140)

Excellent resource, especially good for exam practice and revision. These are valuable resources throughout the GCSE course. Are an easy way to consolidate topics studied in class. Worth every penny!

A Taylor, Teacher and Customer

This is a fantastic, up to date resource that is immediately accessible and very easy to use; it includes ideas on how to incorporate the reading passages into a series of learning activities and includes full marking schemes.

L Carter, Teacher and Peer Reviewer

I think that this is a brilliant resource and I love the fact that it is quite quirky using the letters of the alphabet for the different text stimuli.

C Woodward, Teacher and Peer Reviewer

The articles are all very interesting and on a good range of topics. The questions are similar to those on exam papers which makes using the texts really worthwhile, so all in all this is an excellent resource.

T McGarrick, Teacher and Peer Reviewer

Offers authentic material to supplement learning German through a variety of texts, which vary in style and difficulty.

S Bridge, Teacher and Peer Reviewer