Text Types and Purposes

Curriculum details

Strand

Writing (Strand 4)

Sub-strand

Text Types and Purposes (4.2)

Content standard

B8.4.2.2 - Apply writing skills to specific life situations

Indicator

B8.4.2.2.1 - Compose formal writing (business letters, email) on given topics using the appropriate format

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. 62

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Write formal letters (request / complaint / application / thanks / congratulations / sympathy)
- Correct errors of formal letters written by others.
- Write notices to class or club members to provide updates on rules, schedules or programmes.
- Identify and interpret media texts, highlighting overt and implied messages as evidence for their interpretations (e.g., explain why the advertisements used in a particular magazine are appropriate for that magazine, identifying the messages that would appeal to the magazine's audience).
- Create a variety of media texts (e.g. write emails to news editors to make suggestions, compliments or complaints) for different purposes and audiences using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques.
- Edit/Proofread the writing for sense or meaning, and effect (emotional reaction).
- Publish writing using different media including ICT