Year 9 Curriculum – What Your Child Learns

Reading and writing skills, plus the technical accuracy GCSE Language marks directly.

Reading
Skills: Retrieving information, Making an inference, Analysing language, Analysing structure, Evaluating a text, Comparing texts, Identifying perspective, Using context
Writing
Skills: Writing creatively, Writing descriptively, Writing a narrative, Writing a transactional text, Constructing an argument, Writing to persuade, Writing a speech, Writing an article, Writing a letter, Writing a review
Technical accuracy
Skills: Using a range of sentence structures, Applying grammar accurately, Applying punctuation accurately, Applying spelling accurately, Using ambitious vocabulary, Paragraphing effectively, Writing with cohesion

The set-text forms and analytical skills GCSE Literature will be marked on.

Set-text forms
Skills: Studying Shakespeare, Studying 19th-century literature, Studying a modern prose/drama text, Studying poetry
Analytical skills
Skills: Identifying theme, Analysing character, Using context, Analysing language, Analysing structure, Analysing form, Comparing texts

Everything your child learns in Year 9 English.