Teaching guide: elements of crime writing
A range of resources to help you plan your teaching and assessment for the Elements of crime writing component of A-level English Literature B.
How to use these resources
The sample assessment materials give you details about some of the aspects of the genre each text covers. Don't forget to consult the specification for a list of possible aspects.
These resources will help you to focus your teaching on those aspects and to work towards the relevant exam question in the sample assessment materials. The example student responses with marking commentary act as models for the students and help you to assess their work.
Paper 2A, Section A
- Creating your own questions
- Example answer and commentary - band 3 - unseen
- Example answer and commentary - band 5 - unseen
- Specimen question commentary - unseen
Paper 2A, Section B
- Creating your own questions
- Example answer and commentary - band 2 - Oliver Twist
- Example answer and commentary - band 3 - Oliver Twist
- Specimen question commentary - Oliver Twist
- Text overview: Oliver Twist
- Download the whole package for Paper 2A, Section B
Paper 2A, Section C
- Creating your own questions
- Example answer and commentary - band 2 - Atonement and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Exemplar answer and commentary - band 5 - Atonement and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Specimen question commentary
- Text overview: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Text overview: Atonement
Text overviews
These resources give an introductory overview of how the text can be considered through the lens of crime writing.
- Text overview: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Text overview: Brighton Rock
- Text overview: Hamlet
- Text overview: Poetry collection - Crabbe, Browning and Wilde
- Text overview: When will there be good news