Text Types and Purposes

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

B8.4.2.1.4 - Compose paragraphs that identify an issue, give details about it and suggest solutions

Suggested placement

Term 3, Week 4 (Week 28 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. 61

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Analyse and write about a topic by identifying a problem and proposing one or more solutions:
  - Explain your solution clearly.
  - Give details about how this solution will solve the problem.
  - Explain who will be in charge and how it will be funded.
  - Give evidence that your solution will work (expert opinion, examples of when it has worked before, statistics, studies, or logical argument).
- Write to show the following clearly in the body of a problem/ solution text. That the solution you provide:
  - will solve the problem.
  - is cost-effective.
  - is feasible to implement.
  - is a reasonable solution to the problem.
  - can stand up to possible objections.
  - is better than other solutions.