INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAMUI

Year 6 Curriculum

Literacy

Unit 1: Non-Fiction Texts

Learning Objective - L1.1

To use a rhetorical question to hook in the reader.

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Learning Objective - L1.2

To use powerful adjectives/adverbs: outstandingly, tenderly, timidly, imaginatively, formidable, stern, comical.

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Learning Objective - L1.3

To use powerful verbs: adore, create, demonstrate, prefer.

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Learning Objective - L1.4

To use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that, or an omitted relative pronoun.

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Learning Objective - L1.5

To use subjunctive forms such as ‘if I were’ in some very formal writing and speech.

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Learning Objective - L1.6

To use reading to: - investigate conditionals, e.g. using if…then, might, could, would, and their persuasive uses, e.g. in deduction, speculation, supposition - build a bank of useful terms and phrases for persuasive argument, e.g. similarly… whereas…

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Learning Objective - L1.7

To convey the appropriate level of formality.

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Learning Objective - L1.8

To understand the difference between vocabulary and structures typical of informal speech and vocabulary appropriate for formal speech and writing (e.g. find out – discover, ask for – request, go in – enter).

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Learning Objective - L1.9

To distinguish between biography and autobiography, recognising the effect on the reader of the choice between first and third person, distinguishing between fact, opinion and fiction, distinguishing between implicit and explicit points of view and how these can differ.

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Learning Objective - L1.10

To develop the skills of biographical and autobiographical writing in role, adapting distinctive voices, e.g. of historical characters, through preparing a CV; composing a biographical account based on research or describing a person from different perspectives, e.g. police description, school report, newspaper obituary.

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