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11–12English Studies 11–12 Syllabus

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Life Skills

Reading to write (aligned to English Studies)

For students studying English Life Skills, the focus area Reading to write provides opportunities to engage with texts from a variety of modes and media. This focus area can be explored through a concept selected by the teacher or with the intention of building on students’ personal goals. Students study texts that are personally engaging, and which inspire or provoke them to respond. The selection of texts for this focus area offers a range of opportunities for students to read and engage with information and ideas. Texts could include model texts to illustrate the use of forms and features, student-selected wide reading material relevant to the focus of the unit or everyday texts used to access information and engage in post-school activities. Through the study of texts, students can develop insights into the world around them, their understanding of themselves and the lives of others, and enhance their enjoyment of reading. By reading and composing texts, they can use language to communicate for specific audiences and purposes.

The content aligns with the content of the focus area Reading to write: Transition to English Studies in English Studies 11–12 and has been provided as a suggestion only. Further content can also be used to address this focus area and meet the individual needs of students as appropriate.

Strategies for engaging with texts

  • Identify preferred reading strategies to improve understanding and engagement

  • Use reading, viewing or listening strategies to locate and extract information and ideas

Understanding language forms and features

  • Recognise ways language forms, features or structures can create meaning in a text

Responding to ideas and experiences in texts

  • Identify the message, values or experiences in a text

  • Explore different perspectives on a particular topic, theme or event

  • Respond to a text by providing a personal opinion or perspective

Relationships between texts

  • Recognise connections between ideas and features within texts

  • Compare texts on a similar theme

  • Use strategies to organise information and make connections between ideas in texts

Composing texts

  • Compose texts that offer personal responses to a chosen text

  • Represent personal experiences and ideas for particular audiences and contexts

  • Compose texts for different purposes and audiences using appropriate forms, language or visual features to communicate, including workplace and real-life texts

Using language forms and features

  • Use language forms or structures to express ideas

  • Apply grammar conventions accurately in texts

  • Use punctuation to clarify meaning

  • Use a range of sentence structures to create meaning

  • Use vocabulary for purposeful effect

  • Use visual or language features to create texts

  • Experiment with language forms, features or structures to develop creativity

Planning, reflecting and revising composition

  • Use scaffolding to plan compositions

  • Use model texts to plan and monitor text structure

  • Select editing techniques or tools to enhance clarity and meaning in texts

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