Description
Topics
Language
- Reading comprehension:
- Identifying explicit/implicit meaning, main ideas, inference
- Understanding writer’s purpose, viewpoint, bias, and effect of language
- Summarising and synthesising across texts
- Directed writing:
- Letters, speeches, diaries, newspaper articles, reports, reviews
- Formal vs informal tone, register, audience awareness
- Composition writing:
- Narrative (short stories, descriptive accounts)
- Descriptive (setting, atmosphere, character)
- Argumentative/discursive (balanced arguments, persuasive language)
- Language accuracy:
- Grammar, punctuation, vocabulary range, sentence variety
Literature
- Prose: novels/short stories — plot, theme, setting, characterisation
- Drama: Shakespeare and modern plays — dialogue, conflict, dramatic techniques
- Poetry: analysis of imagery, symbolism, rhythm, tone, comparison of poems
- Unseen texts: responding critically to unfamiliar prose or poetry passages
