Understanding drama and performance
Using and Evaluating Textual Evidence
Wide Independent Reading Across Genres
Plot Structure and Character Development
Poetic forms and conventions
Purpose, audience, and context
Tracing Theme Across a Text
Summarising Non-Fiction Main Ideas
Supporting ideas with evidence
Synthesising across multiple texts
Using Multiple Sources
Analysing Text Structure
Critical comparison across texts
Evaluating Arguments in Non-Fiction
Figurative Language and Literary Devices
Narrative Perspective and Unreliable Narrators
How Authors Treat Similar Themes
How Language Choices Affect the Reader
How Parts Build a Whole Text
Justifying Views About Texts
Multimedia elements in texts
Multiple Accounts of Events
Quoting Accurately from Texts
Different viewpoints in texts
Explaining Relationships in Texts
Fact vs opinion
Interpreting visual information in texts
Narrator's Point of View
Poems, Drama & Prose
Recommending Books
Structure of information texts
Text & Media Connections
Themes Across Cultures and Traditions
Comparing Books
Comparing Characters, Settings and Events
Comparing Structure in Information Texts
Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts
How authors support their points
In-Depth Character and Setting Analysis
Story Lessons and Morals