English Literature can feel daunting for many students, not just during exams but throughout their studies. Demonstrating a deep understanding of literature can significantly boost your marks. Our English Literature tuition is tailored to the GCSE specifications, focusing on developing your skills in reading, writing, and critical thinking.

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Details:

Assessment
Provide us with a marked school-based GCSE English Literature test your child wrote within the past 3 months, and further testing may not be required.
 

Assessment Cost: £399.00 only as necessary

Includes the assessment, invigilating, marking, report and consultation. Evaluation of the student's strengths and weaknesses to pinpoint skills to be learned.
 

Tuition Costs:

£78/lesson Private GCSE Maths lesson for 60-minutes
£52/lesson semi-private GCSE Maths lesson with 2 students for 60-minutes

+ £11.41 per month is charged for educational resources.

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English Literature Topics

GCSE English Literature tuition covers the following scope of study:

Detailed Study:

• At least one play by Shakespeare

• At least one 19th-century novel

• A selection of poetry since 1789, including representative Romantic poetry

• Fiction or drama from the British Isles from 1914 onwards

• All works originally written in English

• Emphasis on deepening students' understanding to support both current and future study
   

Reading Comprehension and Reading Critically:

-Literal and inferential comprehension:

• Understanding words, phrases, or sentences in context

• Exploring aspects of plot, characterisation, events, and settings

• Distinguishing between explicit statements and implications

• Explaining motivation, sequence of events, and relationships between actions or events

-Critical reading:

• Identifying and distinguishing themes

• Supporting viewpoints with textual evidence

• Evaluating different responses to a text

• Using knowledge of writers’ social, historical, and cultural contexts for evaluation

• Making informed personal responses through analysis and evaluation

-Evaluating writers’ choices of vocabulary, grammatical, and structural features:

• Analysing language, structure, form, and presentation

• Using linguistic and literary terminology for evaluation

-Comparing texts:

• Comparing and contrasting texts with respect to theme, characterisation, context, style, and literary quality

• Critically comparing two texts

Writing:

-Producing clear and coherent text for various purposes:

• Describing, explaining, summarising, arguing, analysing, and evaluating literature

• Discussing and maintaining a point of view

• Selecting and emphasising key points

• Using relevant quotations and detailed textual references

-Using accurate Standard English:

• Accurate spelling, punctuation, and grammar

This comprehensive approach ensures students are well-prepared to tackle unseen texts in their examinations and succeed in their GCSE English Literature studies.