The progressions will be met through a Novel study. The novel study unit invites Year 7 students to select a novel that aligns with their interests and reading abilities. Students will listen to that novel focusing on two key aspects: Ideas (themes and messages) and Processes and Strategies (techniques and structure used by the author to connect to their audience). The unit is designed to develop critical reading and thinking skills by encouraging students to actively engage with both the text’s deeper ideas and its stylistic elements.

This term, we will be focusing on Ideas and Processes and Strategies

Year 6 

Processes and Strategies

Read a text over many days and read multiple texts related to the same topic

Skim and scan a text to gain information

Further research a topic by using classroom and digital resources

Ideas

Think critically about information in a text by making judgments and justifying personal opinions.

Year 7 

Processes and Strategies

Ask and answer questions to support understanding of a text's abstract concepts

Make connections between the text being read and prior knowledge, personal experiences and knowledge of the wider world including other text/film/media

Ideas

Connect ideas found in a text to other texts on similar topics.

Year 8

Processes and Strategies

Ask and answer questions to meet specific reading purposes

Make connections between the text and prior knowledge to interpret abstract ideas, complex plots and sophisticated themes

Ideas

Form and test hypotheses and confirm or refine predictions during and after reading.

Link and explain the explicit and implicit ideas in the text.

Year 9

Processes and Strategies

Read and view a wide range of multimedia texts for pleasure across the curriculum and explain links between them

Make connections between prior knowledge, understanding of current and other texts/film/media and world knowledge to form a reader's response

Ideas

Make, confirm and refine predictions before, during and after reading.

Find specific, explicit information in a text and determine the implicit idea or message.

Use a range of strategies to locate and summarise information and ideas within texts and across a range of texts.