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ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS Overview
This framework provides a comprehensive set of progressive learning
objectives. The curriculum promotes an enquiry based approach to
learning to develop thinking skills and encourage intellectual engagement.
The curriculum is presented in five content areas. Spelling & vocabulary
and Grammar & punctuation relate to use of English.
Reading, Writing, and Speaking are about developing thinking skills and
encouraging intellectual engagement. The learning objectives span
knowledge and understanding and other qualities. This curriculum
encourages learners who are confident, creative and intellectually
engaged, and are capable of applying their skills to respond to a range of
information, media and texts with enjoyment and understanding.
Learners who follow this framework will develop a language competency
in English based on a curriculum designed to be successful in any culture
and to promote cross-cultural understanding.
Following are the strands of the curriculum.
The following genres and text types are recommended at Year 7:
Fiction and poetry: Suspense and horror stories, sci-fi and fantasy novels,
contemporary folk and fairy-tales, short stories (including those set in
different times and places), older literature (including drama), narrative
and non-narrative poems, significant poems from before 1900.
Non-fiction: contemporary biography, autobiography, letters and diaries,
journalistic writing/writing with bias, news websites.
This framework provides a comprehensive set of progressive learning
objectives. The curriculum promotes an enquiry based approach to
learning to develop thinking skills and encourage intellectual engagement.
The curriculum is presented in five content areas. Spelling & vocabulary
and Grammar & punctuation relate to use of English.
Reading, Writing, and Speaking are about developing thinking skills and
encouraging intellectual engagement. The learning objectives span
knowledge and understanding and other qualities. This curriculum
encourages learners who are confident, creative and intellectually
engaged, and are capable of applying their skills to respond to a range of
information, media and texts with enjoyment and understanding.
Learners who follow this framework will develop a language competency
in English based on a curriculum designed to be successful in any culture
and to promote cross-cultural understanding.
Following are the strands of the curriculum.
The following genres and text types are recommended at Year 7:
Fiction and poetry: Suspense and horror stories, sci-fi and fantasy novels,
contemporary folk and fairy-tales, short stories (including those set in
different times and places), older literature (including drama), narrative
and non-narrative poems, significant poems from before 1900.
Non-fiction: contemporary biography, autobiography, letters and diaries,
journalistic writing/writing with bias, news websites.
