Year 7 Writing Skills

This course is aligned with the New Zealand National Curriculum and the Cambridge International Education curriculum.

The course is designed to enable students to develop knowledge and practices including:

• Developing proficiency with English spellings.
• Planning and writing for a specific audience and purpose.
• Selecting and using a range of language features and literary techniques to communicate clearly and meet their purpose.
• Selecting and using words that clearly communicate their ideas, including deciding between synonyms for effect.
• Writing complex sentences to add depth and detail and show ideas are linked.
• Understanding sentence structure for crafting sentences to effectively communicate ideas.
• Crafting sentences that communicate meaning clearly by correctly using knowledge of grammar (including subjects and verbs, phrases and clauses, and verb tense) and punctuation.
• Writing to entertain, inform, and persuade coherently using carefully selected language and a cohesive structure appropriate to the purpose and audience.

The topics per module are:

• Magic and mystery
• Heroism and villainy
• Thrills and chills
• Facts and feelings

Text forms include:

• Extracts from novels and short stories.
• Poetry.
• Media texts, including digital media.