This unit introduces Year 7 students to the essential skills of reading, analysing, and writing non-fiction texts. It covers a wide range of non-fiction materials and uses reciprocal reading strategies to help students build confidence in understanding and evaluating these texts. A key focus is on how writers use language to convey meaning and structure their work to create impact. Students will also learn to produce various styles of non-fiction writing, using analysed texts as models.
Key Skills
• Systematically track texts using reciprocal reading strategies.
• Select appropriate evidence.
• Make inferences.
• Use the ‘suggests’ formula for analysis.
• Focus on reading skills: select, retrieve, and evaluate information.
Key Concepts
• Author’s purpose
• Transactional writing
• Summarise and synthesise information
Assessment
• Praising Stars assessment focusing on evaluative skills and detailed feedback on ‘Craft of the Writer’ questions.
Weekly Breakdown
Week 1: Identifying Non-fiction Text Types
• Learning Outcomes: Identify differences between non-fiction text types; explain language techniques used.
• Activities: Buzz and go activity to name non-fiction types, carousel tasks for text type identification, group presentations.
• Support and Challenge: Mixed ability groups, language analysis.
Week 2: Understanding Author’s Purpose
• Learning Outcomes: Identify accurate evidence; explain the author’s purpose.
• Activities: Discussions on video games, comprehension activities using reciprocal reading (RR) strategies.
• Support and Challenge: Sentence starters, modeling predictions and summaries.
Week 3: Analysing Language Use
• Learning Outcomes: Analyse language use; independently identify information.
• Activities: Debates on gaming addiction, tracking articles with RR strategies, writing responses to language questions.
• Support and Challenge: Sentence starters, zooming in on language.
Week 4: Craft of the Writer
• Learning Outcomes: Explain the author’s use of language; identify appropriate evidence.
• Activities: Discussions on heroism, RR strategies, writing ‘comment evidence this suggests’ paragraphs.
• Support and Challenge: Predicting, clarifying, questioning, summarising strategies.
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