KS3 & KS4 English curriculum

This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of writers' impactful choices from the unit 'Read around the world'. This unit expands and develops their thinking by focusing more intently on writers' language choices and their impact. They use this to now focus on descriptive writing instead of narrative writing, which further enhances their repetoire of creative writing skills. This unit prepares pupils for the unit 'Ending stories', where they will focus on how they can make impactful language and structural choices in narrative writing to create powerful story endings.

1. Considering how Verne uses sentences in ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’
2. Emulating how Verne uses sentences in ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’
3. 'The War of the Worlds': How punctuation and sentence structures create impact
4. Using punctuation to create specific effects in descriptive writing
5. Using semantic fields in a piece of creative writing
6. Using synonyms and expanded noun phrases to craft effective descriptions
7. Using sensory language to write effective descriptions
8. 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea': explaining a writer's structural choices
9. Refining descriptions with semantic fields, present participles, and semicolons
10. Revising key strategies to write effective descriptions