This course is tailored to prepare students for the OC Placement Test. Students will engage in a comprehensive exploration of texts, emphasising reading comprehension, critical thinking, and effective communication. The lessons integrate a range of literary genres to provide a dynamic and enriching learning experience.
Course objectives
Teaching Plan
Vocabulary is included in most weeks. Homework tasks are self-marked. There is no homework in week 10.
Week 1: Main idea summary, sentence gap match
Week 2: Direct and indirect characterisation, inferring character, narrative comprehension
Week 3: Understanding poetic techniques and devices, sensory imagery, poetry comprehension
Week 4: Understanding meaning through context clues, linked extracts
Week 5: Mock test & review, paired texts comprehension
Week 6: Structures for organising texts, sentence gap match
Week 7: Inferring meaning, reading comprehension
Week 8: Revision of poetic techniques and devices, poetry comprehension
Week 9: Practice test & review, poetry comprehension and analysis
Week 10: Assessment & review, word games, narrative comprehension, sentence gap match