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Authors - awareness of authors and their styles

compare/contrast works by the same author; discuss preferences & reasons for these

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find out about popular authors

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identifying familiar features of a writer’s work

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how texts can be rooted in writer’s experience

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how they record and acknowledge their sources

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write in the style of

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be familiar with established authors‘ work

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increase familiarity with significant poets/writers of the past

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connections & contrasts in the work of different writers

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style of individual author; describe/evaluate style

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Characters see Stories - characters in stories

Explanations/Explanatory texts

reading, investigating, writing*

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Information texts

reading, investigating, writing*

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Instructions/Instructional texts

reading, investigating, writing*

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Language authors‘ use of language

creation of opening, build-up, atmosphere

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humour, types of *

expressive/descriptive language; figurative language; simile

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arguments/persuasive writing/advertisements - style/vocabulary, linguistic devices

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word play

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impersonal style, passive voice; technical vocabulary; hypothetical language

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distinguish author and narrator, narrative viewpoint

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literal and figurative language; effects of imagery in poetry and prose

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deliberate use of ambiguity, half-truth, bias; how opinion can be disguised as fact

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comment on the language, style, success of non-fiction works

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