English Language

1.1 Reading

• Analysing form and structure (whole-text and sentence)
• Analysing grammatical features and their effects
• Analysing language: writer's choice of vocabulary
• Critical reading: identifying themes and ideas
• Drawing inferences and supporting with textual evidence
• Evaluating texts critically with textual references
• Identifying and interpreting explicit information and ideas
• Identifying bias and evaluating use of evidence
• Reading 19th-century prose fiction (unseen)
• Recognising different responses to a text
• Summarising main themes and ideas (single text)

1.2 Writing

• Citing evidence and quotation in own writing
• Descriptive writing
• Narrative writing
• Planning and proofreading creative writing
• Producing clear and coherent imaginative writing
• Selecting vocabulary, grammar and form for audience and purpose
• Using rhetorical devices
• Writing for impact: organising facts, ideas and key points

2.1 Reading

• Analysing language and structure in non-fiction
• Comparing writers' ideas and perspectives across texts
• Critical reading and comprehension of non-fiction
• Evaluating non-fiction texts critically
• Reading 20th- and 21st-century non-fiction (including literary non-fiction)
• Selecting and synthesising evidence across two texts

2.2 Writing

• Accurate spelling and punctuation (SPaG)
• Adapting tone, style and register for form, purpose and audience
• Producing clear and coherent transactional writing
• Using a range of vocabulary and sentence structures (AO6)
• Writing a letter
• Writing a review
• Writing a section for a guide, textbook, leaflet or booklet
• Writing an article
• Writing for impact in transactional pieces
• Writing the text for a speech

3.1 Spoken language

• Listening and responding to questions and feedback
• Presenting information and ideas in a prepared spoken presentation
• Using spoken Standard English in formal settings