I have been teaching a year 9 top set in preparation for an exam on non-fiction media texts. The scheme of work I created for them to follow worked well and we looked at a variety of skills they would need in order to be successful in the exam. We started off by defining what a non-fiction text is as opposed to a fiction text and obviously I did not need to spend too long on this. We then looked at forms of non-fiction texts such as newspapers, magazines, Internet pages... We then moved on to look at an example of a non-fiction text call 'No more play times for school children'. Students then identified what the purpose of the text was (persuade, describe, explain...) and decided it was a persuasive texts. Students then wrote a Point, Evidence and Explanation to support this and volunteered to share them with the rest of the class.
We then peer assessed these PEEs using a success criteria that I wrote. Then we answered questions that were based on the exam. Students did well to answer the questions but they struggled with question 1a. For the 1b question students set out their work using a PEE grid. This is a good revision strategy and one I will use in my future teaching.
Question 1c is a comparison question so we spent one lesson on comparing two articles. We started by thinking about comparative connectives and then compared two articles about Peppa Pig. In the last lesson I let the students dictate what we were going to do by them asking questions. We also worked through an example that was based very closely on the exam. Students struggled with question 1a, and I don't understand why because it was a simple retrieval question.
When it came to marking the exam the overall lowest question was question 1a. Also, students forgot to use PEE structure and a few even forgot to use paragraphs. I was a bit disappointed and in a lesson later on today I will feedback to them on their exams with them reflecting on the feedback they have received.
If I were to teach this scheme of work again I would focus on the simple retrieval question.
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