English Stage 3 Focus outcomes
Learning About Reading — Context and Text
RS3.7 Critically analyses techniques used by writers to create certain effects, to use language creatively, to position the reader in various ways and to construct different interpretations of experience.
Purpose
- explains how the structure of a text is related to its purpose.
Audience
- recognises reader response expected by author
- uses blogs and Internet sources to request and receive information.
Subject Matter
- surveys and contrasts different accounts of the same event.
Responding to Text
- discusses how information on a local issue or newsworthy event is presented in articles from a magazine or newspaper, in television news broadcasts or on the internet
- justifies own preferences for a particular interpretation of a text, referring to text details and own knowledge and experience.
Learning About Reading — Language Structures and Features
RS3.8 Identifies the text structure of a wider range of more complex text types and discusses how the characteristic grammatical features work to influence readers’ and viewers’ understanding of texts.
Text Structure
- identifies examples of different text types within one text.
Grammar
- identifies how noun groups are a useful resource for condensing information about people, places, things and ideas
- identifies figurative language such as simile, metaphor, idiom and personification in texts and discusses the effect.
Text Language
- compares conventional structures used in print and electronic texts.
Learning to Write – Producing Texts
WS3.9 Produces a wide range of well-structured and well-presented literary and factual texts for a wide variety of purposes and audiences using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and written language features.
Joint and Independent Writing
- when necessary, records information from a variety of sources before writing
- contributes to joint text construction activities.
Audience
- uses topic sentences and questions to guide readers.
Subject Matter
- writes about more complex subject matter
- undertakes research to extend knowledge of subject matter.
Channel of Communication
- interacts with others using blogs.
Learning to Write – Skills and Strategies
WS3.12 Produces texts in a fluent and legible style and uses computer technology to present these effectively in a variety of ways.
Using Computers
communicates with others using computer technology |
