Year 10 - English
Developing reading skills and personal responses to non-fiction texts
Non-fiction: changing views
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils develop their non-fiction reading and writing skills. They look at a range of nineteenth century and modern texts in tandem, and practise comparing viewpoints. They then practise emulating different techniques from the texts in order to develop their speech and opinion writing.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to make predictions about two unseen non-fiction texts and develop a personal response to them.
Key Notes
- Asking questions about the writer and time of publication can help us understand the perspective of the writer.
- Asking questions about the genre, audience and publication can help understand the writer's intentions.
- Analysing non-fiction is important because it helps us understand why information is being offered to us in that way.
- Developing a personal response is important because it helps us to see how the text fits with our world view.
Vocabulary To Learn
- non-fiction: prose writing that is informative or factual rather than fictional
- predict: say or estimate that (a specified thing) will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something
- prose: written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure
- informative: providing useful or interesting information
- personal response: reflection of one's thoughts, feelings, and opinions on a particular topic or piece of literature
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- That you don't need to analyse non-fiction texts - just absorb the information.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Asking questions about the writer and time of publication can help us understand the perspective of the writer. Asking questions about the genre, audience and publication can help understand the writer's intentions.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'non-fiction'
prose writing that is informative or factual rather than fictional.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: That you don't need to analyse non-fiction texts - just absorb the information. Correction: Analysing non-fiction texts is essential because it helps us understand who is offering us this information and why are they offering it to us.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Analysing and comparing language techniques in non-fiction writing Study Guide
- Considering and analysing attitude in non-fiction writing Study Guide
- Considering and analysing the use of anecdotes in a non-fiction text Study Guide
- Considering and emulating onomatopoeia and alliteration in speech writing Study Guide
- Considering and emulating the use of anaphora in speech writing Study Guide
- Considering and emulating the use of direct address in the opening of a speech Study Guide
- Considering and emulating the use of extended analogies in non-fiction writing Study Guide
- Considering and emulating the use of hyperbole in opinion writing Study Guide
- Considering and emulating the use of rhetorical questions in opinion writing Study Guide
- Considering and emulating the use of similes in non-fiction writing Study Guide
- Considering and understanding the attitude of a non-fiction text Study Guide
- Crafting an effective comparison of non-fiction texts Study Guide
- Planning a speech and building your counter-argument Study Guide
- Using colons, dashes, and semicolons effectively in opinion writing Study Guide
- Using comparatives and superlatives to effectively compare non-fiction texts Study Guide
- Using inference and embedded quotations to craft effective summaries Study Guide
- Using rhetorical devices to write an effective speech Study Guide
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