Exploring attitudes to teenagers across time

English

Applying reading strategies to non-fiction texts

Comparing ideas and advice on love in different centuries

Exploring how love has changed over time

Exploring vivid childhood accounts

Using juxtaposition and foreshadowing in childhood accounts

Understanding and planning open letters

Writing an open letter

Using and understanding irony in non-fiction writing

Writing humorously

Analysing a dramatic description of an event

Structural methods in a dramatic account

Withholding information and timing revelations

Using dialogue effectively

Analysing and improving an article

Using credible expert views in a non-fiction article

Planning an effective article

Writing an effective article

In 'Non-Fiction: Teenage Kicks', pupils evaluate how authors use language, to express similar or differing viewpoints. In 'Non-Fiction: Explorers', pupils analyse how historical or social context may lead to authors having differing views, on the same topics.

In 'Non-Fiction: Changing Views', pupils compare language choices used in non-fiction texts. In 'Non-Fiction: Teenage Kicks', pupils evaluate how authors use language to expresses similar or differing viewpoints.

In this unit, pupils develop their non-fiction reading and writing skills by looking at a collection of non-fiction texts about the theme of teenagers. They first build towards writing an open letter, before then looking at how they can write nuanced and sophisticated articles in an original voice.

Non-fiction: teenage kicks

In which decade did the term 'teenager' come to use?

The earliest references to teenagers focused on them as ...

that they must enter employment after their thirteenth birthday

Which idea regarding teenagers has remained relatively stable over time?

the extent to which you get along with someone

Match each part of this article title to its purpose: 'Flawless filter: how social media is fuelling teenagers' perfectionism'.

Teens behind screens: internet idols are raising our next generation

Teenagers are too obsessed with social media!

You no longer have the biggest influence over your kids!

Which of the below is the most engaging article title?

What topic is most stereotypically relevant for modern teenagers?

What is the purpose of a colon in a sentence?

when two adjacent words end with the same letter

when two nearby words begin with the same sound

a line in poetry with a pause in the middle of the line

a phrase, often figurative, commonly used in a particular population

a phrase comparing two things using the words 'like' or 'as'

Starter Quiz

What topic is most stereotypically relevant for modern teenagers?