KS3 & KS4 English curriculum

This unit uses and builds on pupils' expertise in non-fiction reading and writing from 'teenage kicks'. Having already compared texts, they now start to complete increasingly precise and developed comparisons of viewpoints. They also coninue to refine their non-fiction writing by using all that they have learnt in the previous non-fiction writing units to write compelling accounts that engage, inform and entertain readers.

1. Conceptualising travel writing and making predictions based on titles
2. Comparing Stevenson and Steinbeck's attitudes to their travelling companions
3. Identifying and using different perspectives
4. Making inferences from two non-fiction texts
5. Writing concise and developed comparisons of non-fiction texts
6. Using inverted sentence structures and chiasmus for effect
7. Using compound adjectives and analogies for effect in non-fiction writing
8. Writing a compelling account

• Pupils can use reading skills to decode a range of challenging texts
• Pupils can identify a range of language devices in texts, with accuracy
• Pupils can comment on an author's use of language
• Pupils can use conjunctions to explain their inferences
• Pupils use comparisons to compare subtle similarities or differences, between texts
• Pupils understand the conventions of different types of functional writing
• Pupils can use simple, compound and complex sentences
• Pupils can use rhetorical devices for effect in their own writing
• Pupils have know how to develop a tone of voice when writing
• Pupils can use tentative language to effectively discuss alternative interpretations