Key points and Tips

Unit Key points Tips

Unit 1 Figurative language Using reference points in directions

Giving instructions and directions Describing your home and neighbourhood
Informal letters Illustrating a proverb
Proverbs Doubling of consonants
Reader viewpoint
Skimming and scanning
Autobiographical writing

Unit 2 Language features of cautionary tales Urban legends

Writing a short story
Short story titles
Writing a mini-saga

Unit 3 Making notes ‘My perfect day’ reflective writing

Adjectival order
Using rhyme in poetry

Unit 4 Expanding notes Semi-formal letter writing

Speech in stories Planning a story
Fictionalised autobiography
Speaker position in direct speech
Apostrophe of omission
Writing a diary
Narrative writing

Unit 5 Selecting summary points Using advertising language

Commas Summarising
Paragraph changes

Unit 6 Relative clauses 1 Planning your story

Beginning stories Choosing a title
Use of quotation Writing a blurb
Past tenses in stories Writing a tagline
Dialogue in stories
Common errors in narrative writing

Unit 7 Answering comprehension questions Making it feel real

Using pairs of commas
Prepositions

Unit 8 Adventure quest characters Writing in an old-fashioned style

Adverb endings
Relative clauses 2
Active and passive verbs
Apostrophe of possession
Writing playscripts

Unit 9 Selective summary Using a variety of sentences

Conditional sentences News bulletins
Punctuation in poetry Creating mood and atmosphere in your poem
Poetic form

Unit 10 Inference
Synonyms and vocabulary
Mysterious beginnings and endings
Newspaper headlines

Unit 11 Non-sentences Writing a character sketch

Drafting Confessing
Poem endings Composing your poem
Irregular past simple verbs

Unit 12 Comparative and superlative adjectival forms Writing a ‘I wish I were …’ poem
‘I were’

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