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2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills

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An original contemporary non-fiction-style account.

The museum asked visitors what they thought an old metal frame had been used for. Most called it a bed. Its size encouraged that guess, and the curved ends looked familiar. Only after visitors had written their answers did the guide reveal the caption: the frame had supported trays in a bakery. We were allowed to change our guesses. The exercise showed how quickly a familiar shape can supply an explanation before the evidence has been checked.

Give one phrase that identifies what the metal frame actually supported.

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2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /English Language
  3. /2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills

160 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE English Language 2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills, covering 2.3.1 Identify and interpret key ideas, 2.3.2 Comment on writers’ language choices, 2.3.4 Summarise and synthesise across texts, 2.3.7 Evaluate usefulness, bias and misuse of evidence, 2.3.8 Use context to inform reading, and 2.3.9 Explore connections across texts. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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