Create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices for particular purposes and effects

Step 1: Explicit Teaching & Modelling

Highlight one phrase, structure or image.

Students: Name the exact choice and describe what it makes the reader notice.

Step 2: Guided Analysis

Place two versions side by side.

Students: Identify what changes and explain why the change matters.

Step 3: Collaborative / Independent Practice

Model choice → context → effect.

Students: Build a complete analytical sentence.

Step 4: Formative Assessment

Remove the worked example.

Students: Apply the frame independently.

Check: Explain how one deliberate choice shapes meaning in create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices for particular purposes and effects.

Choice → context → effect

Teacher model: Do not stop at naming a technique. Show the evidence, place it in context and explain the effect.

1. Choice: Identify the exact word, structure or text feature connected to create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices for particular purposes and effects.
2. Context: Explain who is speaking or writing, for whom, and what the text is doing.
3. Effect: Explain how the choice shapes meaning, relationship, purpose or reader response.

E1: Connect voice to meaning and audience effect

This example focuses on creating short stories focusing on characters and dialogue. Students identify the relevant voice, cite the exact evidence, and explain how it shapes meaning or audience response.

Teacher move: Highlight the exact wording that shows voice. Ask students to connect that evidence to creating short stories focusing on characters and dialogue and then name the audience effect.

Ask: Which choice is evidence, and what effect does it create for the audience?

E2: Connect representation to meaning and audience effect

This example focuses on combining literary devices to evoke a reader response. Students identify the relevant representation, cite the exact evidence, and explain how it shapes meaning or audience response.

Teacher move: Highlight the exact wording that shows representation. Ask students to connect that evidence to combining literary devices to evoke a reader response and then name the audience effect.

Ask: Which choice is evidence, and what effect does it create for the audience?

E3: Connect text choice to meaning and audience effect

This example focuses on collaborating with a peer, which may include using online spaces, to write a short script with 2 characters, focusing on dialogue choices for each character. Students identify the relevant text choice, cite the exact evidence, and explain how it shapes meaning or audience response.

Teacher move: Highlight the exact wording that shows text choice. Ask students to connect that evidence to collaborating with a peer, which may include using online spaces, to write a short script with 2 characters, focusing on dialogue choices for each character and then name the audience effect.

Ask: Which choice is evidence, and what effect does it create for the audience?

Support

Use two short versions, colour-code choice and effect, and provide the sentence frame ‘The choice ___ makes the audience ___ because ___.’

Keep the concept: Keeps the same choice → effect reasoning with reduced text load.

Core

Annotate an extract and write a choice–context–effect explanation.

Keep the concept: Directly assesses the listed English concept.

Extend

Compare two audiences or mediums and evaluate which wording is more effective, citing evidence.

Keep the concept: Deepens evaluation without requiring later-year theory.