Everything your child learns in Year 11 English.

Skills: Identifying explicit information, Making an inference, Analysing language, Analysing structure, Evaluating a text, Comparing texts, Identifying a writer's viewpoint, Identifying a writer's methods, Explaining a method's effect, Selecting evidence

Skills: Developing content, Organising a response, Using ambitious vocabulary, Varying sentence structures, Paragraphing effectively, Writing with cohesion, Matching register to task, Writing for an audience, Writing for a purpose, Spelling accurately, Applying grammar accurately, Applying punctuation accurately

Skills: Understanding what a question is asking, Planning an answer under time pressure, Selecting the strongest evidence, Writing an analytical paragraph, Managing exam timing, Checking your own answer, Improving a weak answer, Learning from a model answer, Avoiding common mistakes

Skills: Writing a whole-text essay, not just single-extract analysis, Recalling and integrating quotations accurately from memory, Structuring a closed-book Shakespeare essay, Structuring a closed-book 19th-century novel essay, Identifying subtext beneath a character's stated motives, Applying literary theory and critical vocabulary fluently, Managing timing across two closed-book essays

Skills: Writing a modern text essay under exam conditions, Comparing two anthology poems by shared idea or technique, Comparing a studied anthology poem against an unseen poem, Applying the three-stage unseen-poetry method at comparison level, Structuring a connected comparative response, Selecting comparable evidence across two texts