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Engaging with texts and other media
The building blocks are sorted by grade band. What a building block builds on is on its own page.
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Grade 5/6
- Fiction and reality (gap, no app yet)
- Text functions (gap, no app yet)
- Prose, poetry and drama (gap, no app yet)
- Analysing the plot (gap, no app yet)
- Exploring characters (gap, no app yet)
- Judging a character's behaviour (gap, no app yet)
- Continuing and rewriting stories (gap, no app yet)
- Fairy tales (gap, no app yet)
- Fables (gap, no app yet)
- Legends (gap, no app yet)
- Reading a youth novel (gap, no app yet)
- Line, stanza and rhyme (gap, no app yet)
- Rhyme schemes (gap, no app yet)
- Simile and metaphor (gap, no app yet)
- Personification (gap, no app yet)
- Analysing a dramatic scene (gap, no app yet)
- Writing a dramatic scene (gap, no app yet)
- Structure of non-fiction texts (gap, no app yet)
- Reading tables and charts (gap, no app yet)
- Researching information (gap, no app yet)
- Evaluating sources (gap, no app yet)
- Personal media use (gap, no app yet)
- Radio play (gap, no app yet)
- Comics and graphic novels (gap, no app yet)
Grade 7/8
- Narrator and author (gap, no app yet)
- Narrative person (gap, no app yet)
- Interior monologue (gap, no app yet)
- Character constellation (gap, no app yet)
- Characterisation (gap, no app yet)
- Textual evidence (gap, no app yet)
- Short story (gap, no app yet)
- Literary motifs (gap, no app yet)
- Signals of fictionality (gap, no app yet)
- Lyric speaker (gap, no app yet)
- Ballads (gap, no app yet)
- Elements of drama (gap, no app yet)
- Analysing infographics (gap, no app yet)
- News report and commentary (gap, no app yet)
- Feature report (gap, no app yet)
- Structure of a newspaper (gap, no app yet)
- Analysing advertising (gap, no app yet)
- Online privacy (gap, no app yet)
- Shot sizes and camera angles (gap, no app yet)
- Editing, montage and sound (gap, no app yet)
- Comparing book and film (gap, no app yet)
Grade 9/10
- Narrative perspective (gap, no app yet)
- Narrative time and story time (gap, no app yet)
- Novella (gap, no app yet)
- Interpretive hypothesis (gap, no app yet)
- Text and context (gap, no app yet)
- Metre (gap, no app yet)
- Symbols (gap, no app yet)
- Rhetorical devices (gap, no app yet)
- Form and content in poems (gap, no app yet)
- Comparing poems (gap, no app yet)
- Five-act structure (gap, no app yet)
- Analysing dramatic dialogue (gap, no app yet)
- Analysing argumentation (gap, no app yet)
- Spotting fake news (gap, no app yet)
- Algorithms and social media (gap, no app yet)
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