Non-fiction and media pack

Last updated: 15/11/2023
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Save time with our Non-fiction and media pack; a collection of relevant and useful source materials alongside creative teaching ideas and resources.

Aimed at both KS3 and KS4 students, this pack is sure to motivate!

What's included?

  • links to non-fiction source material
  • lesson plans and ideas alongside tailor-made resources
  • practical, student-facing activities.

What's inside?

Introduction (pages 1-2)

  • Summary of pack
  • Non-fiction and media source material

Route through – part one: non-fiction overview (pages 3-5)

Route through – part two: structure (pages 6-7)

Route through – part three: tone and influence (pages 8-10)

Route through – part four: pictures and other presentational devices (pages 11-12)

Route through – part five: PAF language and tone (pages 13-14)

Route through – part six: assessment and exam (pages 15-16)

Resources (pages 53-87)

  • Strategies for tackling writing weaknesses
  • Importance of tone
  • Analysing persuasive texts
  • Views of Stonehenge
  • Persuasive writing worksheet
  • Newspaper bias
  • The key to a good blurb
  • Word analysis quadrant
  • Analysing a still image
  • Analysing an opinion article
  • Colour symbolism
  • Speed dating revision
  • Rewriting for audience and purpose
  • Crocodile language: making it snappy

This sample shows part of a student activity worksheet in the Non-fiction and media pack:

Persuasive writing worksheet

Persuasive writing tries to make you believe something is true.
It is like SHOUTING at someone!

- What was the last thing that you tried to persuade someone to do?

- What was the last thing that one of your parents tried to persuade you to do?  
- What words did they use?


Persuasive writing may try and tell you to buy something or believe something.

- What is the most persuasive advert that you have seen in a newspaper or magazine recently? How did the writing or picture persuade you?


We read and hear lots of persuasive words every day. There are many different ways of writing persuasively. This worksheet will tell you six different things you can do to be persuasive. Use them next time you want someone to do something for you!

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03/02/2021

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15/12/2020

Fun, focused and credible, and very likely to motivate my IB students to look at stylistic features, register and diction to make an impact in their writing.

03/05/2016

Strategies required for advanced adult learners of English

26/09/2014

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03/02/2021

5

15/12/2020

Fun, focused and credible, and very likely to motivate my IB students to look at stylistic features, register and diction to make an impact in their writing.

03/05/2016

Strategies required for advanced adult learners of English

26/09/2014

I have often used your resources as a reference resource for my senior students. I use them as "Do Now' and as practice exercise . I really enjoy using your resources and I really appreciate accessing them.

Prineet

11/01/2014

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