Demonstrate Understanding of Explicit Meaning in Texts

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Demonstrate understanding of explicit meaning in texts.

1. I can identify the text features.


2.I can analyze how texts are shaped by audiences’ preferences and opinions.
2. I can retrieve information and answer direct questions
3.I can identify the main idea of the text
Demonstrate understanding of implicit meaning in texts
4. I can develop interpretations of texts, supporting points with detailed textual evidence.
5.I can examine the context to decode the meaning of the words.
6. I can justify the implied meaning and explain it with evidence.
Explain, comment on and analyse the way writers use stylistic and other features of language and structure in texts
7. I can comment on a writer’s use of language (vocabulary/ punctuation marks/ varying sentences).
8.I can analyse awareness of writer’s use of language and its intended impact on the reader
Create
I can create an opening that engages and intrigues the reader and reflects the whole story
I can create a well defined and strongly developed plot with features of fiction writing asuch as
setting , characterization , climax and resolution.
I can show understanding of the genre conventions I am writing for, including an appropriate setting
and description.
I can write with genre conventions firmly embedded. 
I can demonstrate that my vocabulary is exceptional, using a wide range of ambitious, carefully-
chosen words correctly.

I can apply my knowledge on Using expanded noun phrases? e.g. ...a dark, blustery afternoon the
slight, black- coated figure... ...thick layers of cavernous snow...
Using prepositional phrases? e.g. ...against the window... ...under the moonlit sky...
...with a deep sigh...
Using figurative language and personification? e.g. ...screeched like a wailing cat...
...the sun smiled down on them...

I can create a descriptive setting and describe the character's emotions.


I can apply my knowledge of using dialogue, asking readers a question, describing a strange
behaviour of a character, describing a dramatic scene/event, introducing an intriguing incident as the
opening sentence

I can apply my knowledge of using - different techniques to reveal character’s personality traits. –
describe the character’s feeling (sadness, happiness, loneliness…), portray character through actions
and dialogues, use powerful verbs to describe character’s feelings and behaviour, give the thoughts
and feelings of the secondary characters, reveal the character’s thought and feelings.

I can recall rules for semicolon and colon use.

I can use a semicolon to link two or more closely related independent clauses.
I can use a conjunctive adverb to link two or more closely related independent clauses.
I can apply capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
I can recall rules of using some cohesive devices within and across sentences?

I can apply my knowledge of Using pronouns to refer back to a noun you have already introduced?
e.g. Susie darted past the aliens and raced for her life. She gasped for breath in a panic as it felt like
there was no way to escape them.
Using fronted adverbials? e.g. Later the same day,... Back at the house,... Once the egg has
hatched,...
Using topic words linked to a theme? e.g. avalanche, blizzard, mountain range, conditions
I can recall the Use of different verb forms

I can appply my knowledge of the use of present and past tense correctly? (has/had +past participle)
e.g. Their popularity has increased... The snarling beast had escaped...use modal verbs to show how
likely an event is to happen in the future? e.g. The coastline will start to erode... The minotaur could
Ibe hiding
can applyanywhere...
my knowledge of using pronouns to refer back to a noun you have already introduced?
e.g.
I canSusie
recalldarted past
the use the aliensdevices
of cohesive and raced for her life. She gasped for breath in a panic as it felt like
there was no way to escape them.
Using fronted adverbials? e.g. Later the same day,... Back at the house,... Once the egg has
hatched,...

Using topic words linked to a theme? e.g. avalanche, blizzard, mountain range, conditions.
Use Simple, Compound, Complex sentences Sequence words, phrases Use Subordinating
conjunctions, Subordinate clause, Direct speech Use sentence variation for the effectiveness of the
writing; secure control of complex sentences, understand how clauses can be manipulated to
achieve different effects; start and finish correctly with capital letters and full stops; use punctuation
to demarcate grammatical boundaries and the separate parts of a sentence (such as short clauses or
items in a list

I can Use Figurative language like Similes/metaphors/idioms/onomatopoeis


I can write the possessive appostophe correctly also speech marks, exclamation marks and commas
for lists are used correctly

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