Non-fiction: changing views
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of non-fiction reading and writing from the unit 'Crime and Punishment'. In this unit, pupils focus more closely on how writers express their viewpoints, and practise comparing those viewpoints. They develop thier non-fiction writing skills by looking at how more complex techniques, such as anaphora, can be used thoughtfully to improve their speech and opinion writing. They also start to move from emulating to crafting original voices. This unit builds towards the unit 'letter writing', where pupils will further develop their original voice.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use reading skills to decode texts
- Pupils can identify a range of language devices in texts
- Pupils comment on an author's use of language
- Pupils can structure arguments clearly, using thesis statements, topic sentences and single paragraph outlines
- Pupils use comparisons to compare 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 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 uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of non-fiction reading and writing from the unit 'Crime and Punishment'. In this unit, pupils focus more closely on how writers express their viewpoints, and practise comparing those viewpoints. They develop thier non-fiction writing skills by looking at how more complex techniques, such as anaphora, can be used thoughtfully to improve their speech and opinion writing. They also start to move from emulating to crafting original voices. This unit builds towards the unit 'letter writing', where pupils will further develop their original voice.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use reading skills to decode texts
- Pupils can identify a range of language devices in texts
- Pupils comment on an author's use of language
- Pupils can structure arguments clearly, using thesis statements, topic sentences and single paragraph outlines
- Pupils use comparisons to compare 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 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: changing views
In this unit, pupils develop their non-fiction reading and writing skills. They look at a range of nineteenth century and modern texts in tandem, and practise comparing viewpoints. They then practise emulating different techniques from the texts in order to develop their speech and opinion writing.
18 lessons in unit
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