What is the Year 11 English Common Module: Reading to Write all about?
If you need someone to debunk this module for you, plus guide you in getting a Band 6 for the module, you’ve come to the right place!
In this article, we’re going to cover the changes to content and assessments, as well as how to prepare, use class time and get a Band 6 in the Year 11 English Common Module: Reading to Write!
So, what are you waiting for? Let’s jump right in!
Why Did NESA Create a Common Module on ‘Reading to Write’?
How Do I Get a Band 6 in ‘Reading to Write’?
How Can I Prepare for the New Module Reading to Write?
How Can I Use Class-time Well?
Why Did NESA create a Common Module on Reading to Write?
“过渡到高级英语”的想法承认这一点lots of students get into Year 11 and struggle with HSC English.
他们在整个年初7-10阅读短短和/或简单的文本并做了比较简单的作业，但是高级英语的步骤更加困难。
So you can see that to address the challenge of making the jump to senior English, ‘Reading to Write’ hopes to:
- Pace out the introduction of content and the stamina for writing at an HSC level
- Give students more opportunities to write analytically, critically, and creatively
- Require students to write in different ways – for example, essays, tables, speeches, reading logs, and even graphs or other infographic ways of setting out information.
- Make students recognise some of the technical aspects of writing, like grammar
How Do I Get a Band 6 in Reading to Write?
ThePerformance Band descriptorswithin the new syllabus outline what the work of a top performing student looks like. So let’s go through each descriptor to work out what it means, and how to achieve the top mark for each!
To demonstrate and make things a little easier to understand, we’ll use the text‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck举个例子。
Step 1: Understand and evaluate the factors that shape the meaning of texts
展示了广泛的知识，富有识别的理解和对途径的复杂评估是由背景，生产媒介，生产媒介而改变的方式，以及对文本产生不同响应的影响
To be able to understand the meaning of a particular text, you need to understand the context and influences that have shaped its composition.
Action Point:Do some research on the writer and the historical period when the text was written.
Here are some prompts to get you started:
- 写一个简短的段落在作家和他或her life. What was their family background and upbringing like? Where are they from? What was the historical period in which they were writing?
- What is the historical period in which this particular text was written?
- What are ways in which the text has been influenced by the writer and/or the context in which the text was written?
Example:
John Steinbeck was an American author, born in California in 1902. He spent most of his early life working on farms with migrant workers in rural California. ‘Of Mice and Men’was published in 1937, and is largely informed by Steinbeck’s experiences working alongside migrant workers. The text is also set against the context of Depression-era America.
Step 2: Be able to identify language techniques and explain how these shape the meaning of texts
displays highly developed skills in describing and analysing a broad range of language forms, features and structures of texts and explain the ways these shape meaning and influence responses in a variety of texts and contexts
Next, you need to be able to identify language techniques and to understand how the use of certain language shapes meaning in a text.
Many students simply find a quote containing a technique they’re familiar with and vaguely connect it to a theme or concept they’ve heard their teacher talk about in class.
将引用和技术拍打在一起，好像它是三明治一样notwhat you should be doing.
Writers intentionally use language to create meaning, and you need to be able to identify and explain this with specific examples from the text. You also need to be able to identify that the type of text and structure of the text is important in shaping the meaning.
If you need some help recognising and identifying literary techniques, check out ourcomplete HSC English Literary Techniques Cheatsheet!
Furthermore, you need to remember that a writer’s context shapes the effect and meaning you can take from the writer’s use of language!
Action Point:创建一个TEE表并开始用文本的示例填充它
If you’re unsure of how to create a TEE table, or just need a little refresh,查看我们的文章！
Example:
“A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shallows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.”
Steinbeck uses vivid imagery of a heron and water snake to emphasise the dominant theme of the predatory nature of world and to foreshadow Lennie’s impending fate.
Step 3: Be able to write a critical and personal response to a text
呈现批判性，精致的个人反应，显示出高度发达的诠释，分析，综合和评估文本和文本细节的技能
You get ‘highly developed skills in interpretation’ by真的，真正思考了这个故事means, and what it means给你。
Action Point:Use your analysis of context, themes, and language to inform your personal response to the text
Here are some more prompts to get you started:
- 文本告诉我们是人类，生活在地球上，处理问题吗？
- 我真的想到了文本意味着什么？我认为作者试图通过这篇文章说明吗？
- 我可以用实体的例子和分析来努力回到我的论点吗？
- 我可以引用其他文献吗to support my point?
- 我知道任何其他思考故事的方法吗？是否有固体证据（即，例子和分析）向后争论？
You then need to be able to take your evidence and analysis of the text to inform your personal response. Basically, you need to be able to take what you’ve learned and write a kickass essay using your knowledge!
We have an amazing article which outlines step-by-stepHow to Write a Band 6 English Essay here!
Step 4: Be able to write a logical and sophisticated response
Composes imaginatively, interpretively, critically and reflectively with sustained precision, flair, originality and sophistication for a variety of audiences, purposes and contexts in order to explore and communicate ideas, information and values
After writing a kick-ass essay with sophisticated and original interpretations and analysis of the text, you need to make sure it’s grammatically correct.
我们已经写了关于如何正确拟订的指南，编辑和策划您的HSC英语散文以完美！Check it out here.
毕竟，如果您无法在您的回复中清楚有效地沟通，则没有任何令人难以置信的想法和分析。
Looking for some practice essay questions for Reading to Write?We’ve got you covered with 20 Practice Questions here!
How Can I Prepare for Reading to Write?
Step 1: Ask your teachers what you’re going to be reading and read it!
Ideally, you will have read your texts before you actuallyneedto have read your texts…
Step 2: Get some related texts!
Even if you simply write down a list of texts that you might like to use. This is useful as you can ask your teacher for advice on which texts would work well.
Need some help finding related texts for Reading to Write?Check out our article here!
Step 3: Clear up your understanding of grammar
如果你发现教师写道'expression’ or ‘看你的表情’ or ‘this isn’t a sentence?“请他们解释你破坏了哪个语法的规则以及如何解决它。
How Can I Use Class-time Well?
To transition into the high-stamina writing you’ll need to do well in Year 12,you should be absolutely clear about a few things.
Good reading and note-taking strategies:
- 如果你是如何阅读文本looking foranswers论文问题
- How towrite down your notes to prepare for those questions
- Breaking up the essay questionas something you genuinely answer, not treating it a chance to reel off three memorised paragraphs
- How toplan a considered response一篇论文问题
Find out how to write Kickass HSC English Study Notes more than one week before your exam…Check out our guide here!
Writing and grammar:
- How to将引号正确整合到您的句子中。Seriously, if you’re sketchy on the two things that a complete sentence must have, you should get help with your grammar
- How to write agood introduction句子的句子
- How to write agood paragraph和使用correct grammar，不仅仅是通常正确的形状（即花瓣，teel或任何可以的首字母缩略词，而且如果他们内部的每个句子的语法都是错误的）
- How to通过朗读你的工作来认识自己的错误并且诚实地听起来像废话（如果你不明白为什么听起来有帮助！）
In summary…
A Band 6 performing HSC English ‘Reading to Write’ student:
Goes the extra mile tolearn about the context of their texts
Genuinely thinks about the texts and their meaning(and doesn’t just memorise bullet points and essay paragraphs)
Writes clearly and precisely, and is able to有效地传达他们的想法
符合他们的英语技能，因为他们知道almost all jobs will require the ability to write sustained and clear prose
Discover how to achieve a Band 6 in Standard English starting from Year 11这里要么how to achieve one in Advanced English这里！
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Dr Anna McHughis a qualified English teacher with 10 years+ experience at Sydney’s top schools, with 2 PhDs from The University of Sydney and Oxford University and the author of a number of textbooks for HSC English. Anna works with Art of Smart Education as an on-campus English teacher at our Hornsby campus.
