11–12English Studies 11–12 Syllabus

Recognise that photographs, pictures or symbols communicate meaning

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

Create multimodal texts to inform or engage an audience

Recognise and demonstrate online communication that is safe and ethical

Identify issues that can occur when creating digital texts and develop strategies to overcome these issues

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

Choose the most appropriate mode to express ideas

Set and monitor personal goals to improve composition skills

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

Apply peer or teacher feedback to enhance clarity

Reflect on own or peers’ composition process

Identify personal barriers to composing texts and strategies to overcome these

Reflect on own final composition