Year 9 - English

• understanding text and writers’ ideas, techniques and viewpoint
• social, cultural and historical understanding of text
• genre work
• narrative structure and perspective
• theme work
• comprehension
• summarising skills

Analysis work of language and structure focusing on character and setting; writing for different genres and purposes (IGCSE link).

Speaking and listening opportunities including P4C, debate, discussion.

• inference and analytical skills;
• social, cultural and historical understanding of poems;
• poetry writing.

• analytical writing,
• think about historical context, character and
• creative writing and
• practise IGCSE summary writing skills.

Analytical writing skills, empathy writing in character, writing in different forms.

Speaking and listening opportunities such as P4C, hot-seating, discussion and presentations.

Creative Writing – beginning of GCSE exam course

Students will focus on descriptive and narrative writing skills:

• sentence work
• vocabulary work
• writing for senses
• effective openings and endings for narrative writing

Writing assessments only: a variety of different styles from different stimuli.

Year 9 exam - Cambridge Progression Test