Non-fiction: crime and punishment
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' knowledge of non-fiction conventions and comparison from the the unit 'Women's rights across the ages'. Here, pupils start to explore increasingly complex texts and also develop more sophisticated and nuanced comparisons between texts. They also develop their summarising skills to show that they have comprehended what they have read, and develop their ability to emulate sophisticated skills from other non-fiction writers. This unit builds towards the unit 'Changing views', where pupils develop additional techniques to express themselves in non-fiction writing.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use reading skills to decode texts
- Pupils can identify a range of language devices in texts
- Pupils can comment on an author's use of language
- Pupils can use conjunctions to explain their inferences
- Pupils can use comparisons to compare similarities or differences between texts
- Pupils can understand the conventions of different types of functional writing
- Pupils can use simple, compound and complex sentences
- Pupils can identify rhetorical devices in a text
- Pupils can use rhetorical devices in their own writing
- Pupils can link together a series of simple statements or sentences, to show a cohesive understanding
Threads
Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' knowledge of non-fiction conventions and comparison from the the unit 'Women's rights across the ages'. Here, pupils start to explore increasingly complex texts and also develop more sophisticated and nuanced comparisons between texts. They also develop their summarising skills to show that they have comprehended what they have read, and develop their ability to emulate sophisticated skills from other non-fiction writers. This unit builds towards the unit 'Changing views', where pupils develop additional techniques to express themselves in non-fiction writing.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use reading skills to decode texts
- Pupils can identify a range of language devices in texts
- Pupils can comment on an author's use of language
- Pupils can use conjunctions to explain their inferences
- Pupils can use comparisons to compare similarities or differences between texts
- Pupils can understand the conventions of different types of functional writing
- Pupils can use simple, compound and complex sentences
- Pupils can identify rhetorical devices in a text
- Pupils can use rhetorical devices in their own writing
- Pupils can link together a series of simple statements or sentences, to show a cohesive understanding
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Non-fiction: crime and punishment
In this unit, pupils develop their non-fiction reading and writing skills by reading and responding to a selection of nineteenth century and modern non-fiction texts on the theme of crime and punishment. They practise summarising and comparing texts before writing an article and information text.
12 lessons in unit
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