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Unseen fiction reading
- Literal comprehension and inference
- Selecting and retrieving explicit information
- Synthesising details across a single text
Language analysis (fiction)
- Word and phrase choices, imagery, and connotation
- Lexical fields, figurative language, and sound patterns
- Commenting on effects using embedded evidence
Structural analysis (fiction)
- Openings, shifts, contrasts, and narrative focus
- Pacing, sequencing, and paragraph cohesion
- Narrative viewpoint and perspective changes
Critical evaluation (fiction)
- Judging ideas, tone, and viewpoint
- How writers methods create effects on the reader
- Developing a coherent, evidence-led line of reasoning
Descriptive and narrative writing
- Task interpretation, planning, and generating ideas
- Creating setting, character, and atmosphere
- Structure, openings/endings, and cohesion
Style and technical accuracy (creative writing)
- Sentence variety, paragraphing, and fluency
- Grammar, punctuation, and spelling
- Vocabulary choice, tone, and register control