Yr 11: Reading to Write: Resources

There are teachers who have made a big investment of time to gather resources and create programs for this unit. Teachers can approach this unit in a variety of ways - through theme, or text types, or the reader/writer relationship.

Of the sample units available on the NESA site the focus questions include:

- How do we see ourselves as readers and writers?
- What is the relationship between reading and writing?
- How does knowledge of this relationship affect our experiences of reading and writing?
- What are the various ways that reading and writing can be enjoyed?
- How can reading make me a better writer? How can writing make me a better reader?
- How does reading and writing across a variety of connected texts deepen my understanding of concepts and illuminate meaning? (This is the kind of question you would ask in a syntopical bookgroup!)
- What makes powerful writing and engaging reading?

Here are the NESA pages.
Standard: http://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/stage-6-english/english-standard-2017
Advanced: http://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/stage-6-english/english-advanced-2017

You can access these resources just as easily as teachers can. You should also look at the glossary, that is, the vocabulary you should be familiar with in Senior English. Any of these words could be in your HSC English exam! (There is no listing of the words Analyse or Technique in the glossary!)
http://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/stage-6-english/english-advanced-2017/glossary

There are other resources, made by the English Teachers' Association (ETA) that you can't access, but you can look at the results of a project the ETA has been working on - the Textual Concepts. You can find the standard for Stage 5 (what you should be familiar by the end of Year 10). It would be good to understand these concepts.
http://englishtextualconcepts.nsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/S5%20Syllabus%20Content.pdf

Next post... recommended reading!