Fiction/Narrative

Writing to describe and narrate- imaginative and creative use of language

Transactional/Non-fiction

Writing for a range of audiences and purposes, adapting style to form and to real –life contexts

Poetry and drama and spoken language 

Use of imagery

Presenting information and ideas

Responding to spoken language

English Language

·         Suspense and mystery

·         Si-fi / horror

·         Dystopian futures

·         Detective/mystery

·         Action/adventure

·  Letters

·  Forms

·  Informative writing

·  Persuasive writing

·  History / culture

·  Current affairs

•  Play writing

•  Narrative poetry

•  Performance poetry (role play)

•  Monologues

Speaking and listening  

•       Debates 

•       Short drama

(Macbeth) 

•       Class reading and book debates 

•       Speech  

•   Themes and conventions

•   Context

•   text types

•   Genre and form

•   Grammar and

structure

•   effect on reader

•   Spoken language

•   Spelling 

Concept

Propositional knowledge (knowing that)

Procedural knowledge (knowing how)

Grammar

Tier 1: Word, word classes, sentence, text, noun, adjective, verb, present tense, past tense, future tense, singular, plural, phrase, adverb, conjunction, preposition,

Tier 2: pronoun, possessive, possessive pronoun, suffix, noun phrases, statement, question, exclamation, command, paragraph, direct speech, indirect speech, clause, main clause, subordinate clause, adverbial, fronted adverbials, article, synonym, antonym, determiner, relative clause, independent clause, model verbs,

Tier 3: progressive, present perfect, compound, verb inflections, modal, relative pronoun, passive

(voice), active (voice), subjunctive, syntax, fragments, appositive verbs, abstract verbs auxiliary verbs expanded noun phrases 

Tier 1: subordination, co-ordination, subject-verb agreement,

Tier 2: text purpose and audience,

Tier 3: analysis of writers breaking rules, cohesion/cohesive device, ambiguity

All tiers: Appropriate rules of grammar (and exceptions), Standard English, sentence types

Spelling & vocabulary

Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary specific to units

taught, phoneme, grapheme, split digraph, syllable, trigraph, homophones, hyphenated

words, vowel, consonant, subject, object, family of words, root words

Use functional skills spelling booklets

common spellings, meta-language, Prefixes and

suffixes, possessive apostrophe, regular plurals, irregular plurals, etymology,

Punctuation

Capital letter, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark, comma, apostrophe, inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’), brackets, dashes, hyphen, parenthesis, ellipsis, semi-colon, colon, bullet point, colons and semicolon,

punctuation for effect, negative language,

Language techniques & elements of rhetoric

adjective, verb, adverb, noun phrase, simile,

metaphor, personification, Synonym, antonym, dialogue, direct and indirect speech, alliteration, rhetorical questions, Direct address,

Juxtaposition, pathetic fallacy zeugma, parataxis, hyperbole, anaphora, assonance. chronology, imagery

Descriptive language, language for effect,

Standard English, cohesive devices, Imagery,

Idioms, Colloquialisms, Dialect, Accent, Slang,

Humour, Irony, Use of colour in descriptions, Symbolism, Contrast, Tone,

Rule of three, statistics and facts : DAFOREST

Character

Protagonist, antagonist, hero, victim, villain, rebel, creator, lover, explorer, magician, ruler, jester, fool, sage, foil, archetypal, dual nature

Audience impact & literary criticism

Reader reception, awareness of impact, viewpoints, critique; reader response, cultural, new historicism, psychoanalytic/Freudian, feminist, Marxist, new criticism, post-colonial, structuralism, post-structuralism, using quotes accurately, facts and opinions