This course is designed to foster a love for language through interactive and age-appropriate activities. Students will engage in reading and writing exercises that promote language development and comprehension across a range of text types, such as information reports, narratives, opinion pieces and news articles. The weekly writing task is based on the reading activities, allowing students the opportunity to practise what they've learnt, thus building essential skills for effective comprehension and communication. This course assists in the preparation for Selective High School Placement and Scholarship tests.
Course objectives
Week 1: Elements of a narrative, narrative structure, crafting engaging similes, text analysis, brainstorming, cloze activity
Week 2: Narrative point of view, types of narrative conflict, text analysis, fiction comprehension and analysis
Week 3: Techniques in poetry, poetry comprehension, dialogue punctuation, character description
Week 4: ‘Show, don't tell’, text analysis, semicolons and colons, linked extracts, poetry comprehension
Week 5: Newspaper report structure, text analysis, crafting headlines, including quotations, text structure, summarising the main idea, cloze – subheadings and sentences
Week 6: Parts of a persuasive essay, PEEL, text analysis, commas, cloze – word fill-in-the-blank
Week 7: Paired texts comprehension, advertisements, the triangle of rhetoric, persuasive techniques, linked extracts
Week 8: Structure and features of information reports, fact & opinion, subjective & objective language, text analysis, poetry comprehension and analysis, cloze – subheadings
Week 9: Reading and writing assessments & review, concise writing and tautologies
Week 10: Run-on sentences, reading comprehension and analysis