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11–12English Studies 11–12 Syllabus

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Year 12

The craft of writing (aligned to English Standard)

For students studying English Life Skills, the focus area The craft of writing provides opportunities to develop student composition skills. They compose everyday texts for authentic audiences and purposes. Students engage with everyday texts as models and stimuli for the development of their own ideas and creative expression. They recognise how composers use language to describe the world around them. Through consideration of texts students can experiment with applying their knowledge of language forms and features in their own compositions.

The content below aligns to the knowledge and skills of the focus area The craft of writing in English Standard 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.

Understanding language forms and features

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

  • Recognise ways language forms and features change according to purpose and audience

Composing texts

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

  • Create multimodal texts to inform or engage an audience

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

  • Choose the most appropriate mode to express ideas

  • Use model texts to plan and monitor text structure

  • Reflect on own or peers’ composition process

  • Reflect on own final composition

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