Phonics, Grammar and punctuation Reading Writing Speaking and

spelling and Reading Writing Fiction and Non-fiction Fiction Non-fiction listening
vocabulary poetry
• spelling of • analyse • craft • analyse and • use a range • link a selection of • convey a clear • prepare
difficult and perceptively sentences respond to range of strategies ideas to audience and logical for written
polysyllabic how language showing of ideas and to locate and purpose viewpoint assignments
words is used control of viewpoints information and • edit and review • use • speak
• extend range complex • analyse use of ideas • select appropriate convincing individually
of vocabulary verb literary, rhetorical • make notes in layouts evidence and as part of

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and use forms and and grammatical different formats • link within and • review and a group
appropriately structural features and their • analyse effect between comment • prepare
• explain how devices effects of structural and paragraphs • write and give
language is • control • discuss and take organisational • establish persuasively presentations
used to create wide account of others’ choices character, point • link arguments • question and
effects variety of views of texts • understand the of view and voice progressively respond
• shape reader’s sentence • express informed features of a wide • develop a range • discuss and
response by types opinions range of non- of registers and a plan in groups
selecting • develop fiction and media personal voice • adopt and
language for a and support texts • create tension perform roles
range of tasks, interpretations of • recognise and climax in • evaluate
purposes and texts different registers narrative impact of
audiences • analyse a range of and difference • use a wide performances
poetical forms between formal and ambitious
• select appropriate and informal vocabulary
quotations styles • deploy a range
• take account • explore layers of of formal and
of audience meaning informal styles
expectations • analyse effects of • modify phrase
• understand form and layout and sentence
different cultures structures
and traditions • deploy a range of
• understand how punctuation and
words are used for syntax
different purposes
English curriculum framework: Stage 9
Overview of the Cambridge Secondary 1

Note: In the Reading and Writing strands the learning objectives listed under Fiction apply to both fiction and non-fiction.

1 Cambridge Checkpoint English 9: A World View