English: Reading & Comprehension
Inference
Students practise reading beyond the literal text so they can identify implied meaning, evidence, and deeper context.
Author Purpose
Students learn to recognise whether a text is designed to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain.
Synthesising Ideas
Students combine details from multiple parts of a text and build stronger interpretations as they read.
Text Analysis
Students examine point of view, evidence, opposing arguments, and the strength of an author’s position.
Summarising
Students practise reducing long passages into the essential ideas and details that matter most.
Character Traits & Main Idea
Students identify character behaviour, motivation, growth, and the central idea of paragraphs or whole texts.
English: Writing Skills
Figurative Language
Students build control of metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, and other language features.
Descriptive Writing
Students learn to create vivid settings, characters, and events using precise detail.
Persuasive Writing
Students develop a clear point of view, support it with evidence, and write with structure and purpose.
Narrative & Expository Writing
Students practise both storytelling and factual explanation, strengthening organisation, clarity, and paragraph flow.
