deep absorption or interest in topic or place

Making inferences from two non-fiction texts

English

Conceptualising travel writing and making predictions based on titles

Comparing Stevenson and Steinbeck's attitudes to their travelling companions

Identifying and using different perspectives

Writing concise and developed comparisons of non-fiction texts

Using inverted sentence structures and chiasmus for effect

Using compound adjectives and analogies for effect in non-fiction writing

Writing a compelling account

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 the same topics.

In this unit, pupils develop their non-fiction reading and writing skills by looking at non-fiction texts about explorers. They first conceptualise travel writing, before building towards making concise and developed comparisons between texts. They finally create a compelling account about a place.

Non-fiction: explorers

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

"something of the spirit of the rue du Coq d'Or"

Which of the following is the best example of optimistic language?

war reporting especially when it includes interviews with soldiers

crime reporting that reveals lots of background information

journalism where the writer lives the experience being reported

Which of the following is the best definition of immersive journalism?

Which of the following are associated with implicit meanings?

Match the words with their likely connotations.

What do we mean when we say that writing is in italics?

Match the capital cities with their country. 

memorising key information for using later

evaluating the quality of the writer's work 

drawing conclusions based on the text and background knowledge

critically evaluating the writer's argument

What are we doing when we make inferences from a text?

What does the phrase 'down and out' mean?

examining the word closely for connotations and meanings

moving the word to the centre of the page

making the word into the title of an article

carefully considering how the word works within a sentence

What are we doing when we zoom in on a word?

Starter Quiz

What do we mean when we say that writing is in italics?