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What makes a personal connection strong rather than vague?
It links a specific textual detail to your experience or knowledge and explains how that link deepens your understanding of the text.
Name four inferential reading strategies.
Predicting and checking, questioning while reading, visualising, and noticing gaps or repeated images (also annotating).
What are the three steps of the See – Infer – Connect routine?
See a detail, infer what it suggests, connect it to your experience and explain how this improves your understanding.
What is the difference between an idea and a topic?
A topic is a word (belonging); an idea is a full arguable statement about it (belonging can require painful compromises).
Define tension in a text.
A conflict between two opposing forces, values or desires, such as fitting in versus staying loyal to family.
What does third person limited point of view offer readers?
Access to one character's thoughts and perceptions, while other characters' minds stay hidden.
What is connotation? Give an example.
The associations a word carries: 'slender' sounds positive, 'skinny' can sound negative.
What is the pattern for analysing a language feature?
Feature + Example + Effect + Link to an idea.
What does TEEL stand for?
Topic sentence, Evidence, Explanation, Link.
Give three rules for using quotations.
Keep them short, embed them in your own sentence with quotation marks, and always explain them.
Give three conventions of constructive group discussion.
Take turns and listen actively, build on or respectfully challenge others' ideas, and support claims with textual evidence.
Which tense should you usually use to discuss a text, and why?
Present tense ('the writer shows'), because the text's events and choices exist whenever it is read.
Name the four purposes for writing in Unit 1 Crafting texts.
To express, to reflect, to explain and to argue.
What is register?
How formal or informal the language is, chosen to suit audience and context.
Voice vs tone?
Voice is the overall personality heard in the writing; tone is the attitude towards the subject at a particular moment.
What are the three language modes?
Written, spoken and multimodal (words combined with images, sound or layout).
Why do spoken texts use signposting and repetition?
Listeners cannot reread, so cues and repeated phrases help them follow the structure.
What does 'the power of language' mean?
An author's choices can include, exclude, comfort, provoke or position a reader, so language can achieve the author's aims.
What is a mentor text?
A published model text studied to learn techniques (structure, voice, features) that you then adapt in original writing.
Revising vs editing?
Revising changes content and structure; editing fixes word choice, syntax, punctuation and spelling.