6 Understanding the author’s craft
6.1 Relating texts to the social, historical and cultural contexts in which they were written
- Year 7 Understand the different ways texts can reflect the social, cultural and historical contexts in which they were written
- Year 8 Explore the concept of literary heritage, why certain texts are important withing it and how some texts have influed culture and thinking
- Year 9 Develop an understanding of how ideas, experiences and values are portrayed in texts from different cultures and traditions
Links to Assessing Pupil Progress
- RAF7 Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical traditions
6.2 Analysing how writers’ use of linguistic and literary features shape and influence meaning
- Year 7 identify and describe the effect of writers’ use of specific literary, rhtorical and grammatical features
- Year 8 Explore the range, variety and overall effect on readers of literary, thetorical and grammatical features used by writers of literary and non-literary texts.
- Year 9 Analyse in depth and detail writers’ use of literary, rhetorical and grammatical features and their effects on different readers
Links to Assessing Pupil Progress
- RAF 5 Explain and ocmment on writers’ use of language, including grammatical and literary features at word and sentence level
6.3 Analysing writers’ use of organisation, structure, layout and presentation
- Year 7 Explore the range of different ways writers use layout, form and presentation in a variety of texts
- Year 7 Explore the variety and range of ways the content of texts can be organised, structured and combined
- Year 8 Year 8 Explain how specific choices and combinations of form, layout and presentation create particular effects
- Year 8 Explain how specific structural and organisational choices in texts create particular effects
- Year 9 Analyse how menaing is conveyed differently according to the form, alyout and prestation selected by the writer for specific purposes
- Year 9 Analyse how meaning can be conveyed in different ways according to structural and organisational choices at sentence and text level
Links to Assessing Pupil Progress
- RAF4 Identify and comment on the structure and organisation of texts, including grammatical and presentational features a text level