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Texts and 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
- Personal email and postcard (gap, no app yet)
- Short messages and invitations (gap, no app yet)
- Diary entry (gap, no app yet)
- Writing a dialogue (gap, no app yet)
- Describing a picture (gap, no app yet)
- Picture story (gap, no app yet)
- Writing a story (gap, no app yet)
- Retelling a story (gap, no app yet)
- Summary (gap, no app yet)
- Characters, setting and plot (gap, no app yet)
- Rhymes, songs and poems (gap, no app yet)
- Everyday texts (gap, no app yet)
- Describing people and places (gap, no app yet)
- Continuing a story (gap, no app yet)
Grade 7/8
- Structuring a text (gap, no app yet)
- Report and article (gap, no app yet)
- Interview (gap, no app yet)
- Blog post (gap, no app yet)
- Changing perspective (gap, no app yet)
- Giving reasons for an opinion (gap, no app yet)
- Fiction and non-fiction (gap, no app yet)
- Presentation (gap, no app yet)
- Letter to the editor (gap, no app yet)
- Setting and atmosphere (gap, no app yet)
- Changing the text type (gap, no app yet)
Grade 9/10
- Describing charts (gap, no app yet)
- Formal email and letter (gap, no app yet)
- CV (gap, no app yet)
- Letter of application (gap, no app yet)
- Job interview (gap, no app yet)
- Argumentative essay (gap, no app yet)
- Plot summary (gap, no app yet)
- Structure of a newspaper article (gap, no app yet)
- Fact and opinion (gap, no app yet)
- Analysing advertisements (gap, no app yet)
- Stylistic devices (gap, no app yet)
- Short story (gap, no app yet)
- Narrative perspective (gap, no app yet)
- Characterisation (gap, no app yet)
- Analysing a poem (gap, no app yet)
- Drama scene (gap, no app yet)
- Film analysis (gap, no app yet)
Apps in this strand
Build an app for this strand
An app stays in one strand. It starts with one building block and grows along the learning path with each new version, for example from grade 5 to 10.