JHS2 English Language · Term 3, Week 3
Text Types and Purposes
Full lesson notes coming
Notes for this lesson are being prepared. The curriculum details below are complete and ready to use for your planning.
Curriculum details
- Strand
- Writing (Strand 4)
- Sub-strand
- Text Types and Purposes (4.2)
- Content standard
- B8.4.2.1 - Use a process approach to compose descriptive, narrative/ imaginative, informational, persuasive and argumentative texts
- Indicator
- B8.4.2.1.3 - Create shorter transactional texts to convince an audience to accept an opinion
- Suggested placement
-
Term 3, Week 3
(Week 27 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
- Curriculum reference
-
English Language, Common Core Programme (JHS1-JHS3), 2023, p. 60
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.
Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)
- Compose texts on advertisements, diary entries, postcards, invitation cards, etc. using the appropriate formats/style using process approach: e.g. - title - body - information about the product or service including design and pictures, the buyer (target market/audience) and selling points (what is good about the product or service, why is the product or service better than others?) - Use: - the simple present for conveying timeless statements and facts - modals/imperative (commanding) verbs for persuasive effect - mental verbs (e.g. I think, I believe) for conveying a viewpoint - phrasal verbs (e.g. pick up, run into, turn down, come across) - appropriate persuasive devices such as rhetorical questions and repetition