Mastery

What skill is R1?

• Using Quotations

• Analysing Language Techniques

• Understanding and Interpreting a text

• Spelling and Grammar

“This can be seen where Romeo says, “It is the East and Juliet is the sun””

What reading code would be used here?

• R2

• R3

• R4

• R5

To demonstrate the reading skill, R7, you would have to…?

• …identify a quotation from the text.

• …explain the effect of a technique.

• …use the correct grammar and spelling

• …explain how context affects the meaning in a text.

“By ending the story with a cliffhanger, the author makes the reader feel tense and nervous as they don’t know what will happen to the character”.

What reading skill is this?

• R2

• R4

• R6

• R8

“Feedback: This student has correctly used the features of the gothic genre by using supernatural characters and an atmosphere of dread”

What writing skill has this student been praised for?

• W1

• W2

• W3

• W4

How can you demonstrate W1?

• By using lots of advanced vocabulary

• By using a range of sentence types.

• By using lots of language techniques such as metaphors

• By answering the writing tasks clearly and creatively.

“Silence. The air grew cold; Simon began to shiver. Although it was pitch black; he could sense that he was being watched.”

Study the sentence. What skills could this be demonstrating?

• W4

• W6

• W7

• W3

Answer explanation

By using short sentences and two complex sentences with a semi-colon (;) and a comma (,) this student has used a range of sentence types.

I could improve my writing skills of W3 by…

• … describing information in detail.

• … by using a dictionary to check my spelling.

• …by searching for synonyms for common words.

• …by planning my story structure in advance.

If I don’t use paragraphs in my written work, my feedforward target would be

• W4

• W5

• W6

• W7

Which one of these is not an example of W5?

• Metaphor

• Short Sentence

• Personification

• Simile