English Language

Section A: Reading information and ideas

• Commenting on writers' choices of vocabulary, form and grammatical features (non-fiction)
• Drawing inferences and justifying with textual evidence (non-fiction)
• Evaluating usefulness, identifying bias and misuse of evidence
• Exploring connections across texts
• Exploring effects of writing for particular audiences and purposes
• Identifying and interpreting key ideas and information
• Reading 19th century non-fiction
• Reading 20th/21st century non-fiction
• Summarising and synthesising ideas across texts
• Using context to inform reading (non-fiction)
• Using linguistic terminology to support analysis (non-fiction)

Section B: Writing for audience, impact and purpose

• Adapting tone, style and register
• Choosing vocabulary and grammar for audience, purpose and context (non-fiction)
• Citing evidence and quotations to support views
• Maintaining a consistent viewpoint (non-fiction)
• Organising ideas clearly and coherently
• Selecting and emphasising key ideas to influence readers
• Using a range of sentence structures with accurate punctuation and spelling (non-fiction)
• Using information from others to write in different forms
• Using rhetorical devices effectively
• Using wider reading of non-fiction to inform language choices
• Writing articles
• Writing letters
• Writing original non-fiction for different audiences and purposes
• Writing speeches
• Writing to argue
• Writing to create emotional impact
• Writing to describe
• Writing to explain
• Writing to inform
• Writing to instruct
• Writing to persuade

Section A: Reading meaning and effects

• Analysing and comparing writers' use of language
• Commenting on vocabulary, form and grammatical features (literary)
• Drawing inferences with close textual evidence (literary)
• Evaluating how form and structure contribute to effect
• Exploring connections across literary texts
• Identifying main themes and ideas in texts
• Interpreting writers' meanings and effects across texts
• Reading 20th/21st century prose fiction
• Reading literary non-fiction (e.g. autobiography)
• Using context to inform reading (literary)
• Using linguistic and literary terminology to support analysis

Section B: Writing imaginatively and creatively

• Adapting tone, style and register (creative)
• Considered choices of vocabulary and grammar for deliberate effects
• Maintaining a consistent viewpoint and narrative point of view
• Organising and structuring narrative writing for deliberate effects
• Producing original creative writing
• Selecting and emphasising key ideas to create meaning
• Sentence structure variety with accurate punctuation and spelling (creative)
• Using language creatively and imaginatively
• Using wider reading of prose fiction and literary non-fiction to inform writing
• Writing autobiographical pieces
• Writing short stories

Non-exam assessment

• Expressing ideas using spoken Standard English
• Giving presentations and speeches in a formal setting
• Listening and responding to questions and feedback
• Organising information and ideas effectively and persuasively (spoken)
• Planning effectively for different purposes and audiences (spoken)
• Selecting information and ideas for prepared spoken presentations