Stage 4 Scope & Sequence Planner – Year 7

Outcomes checklist:
Indicative hours: ❑ EN4-RVL-01
❑ EN4-URA-01
❑ EN4-URB-01
Unit: Text type(s): ❑ EN4-URC-01
❑ EN4-ECA-01

Textual Concepts: Outcomes: ❑ EN4-ECB-01

Text requirements:
TERM 1

Summative Assessment: ❑ at least 2 works of extended prose

Formative Assessment
Links to Stage 6 skills:
Learning intentions and Success Criteria:
Literacy focus:
❑ at least 2 collections of poetry
❑ at least 2 films
❑ at least 2 drama texts (including at least one
Shakespeare play in Stage 5)
❑ a range of types of texts inclusive of short prose,
visual, spoken, multimodal and digital texts.

Text Selection:
❑ a range of fiction and non-fiction texts that are
Unit: Text type(s): widely regarded as quality literature
❑ a range of texts by Australian authors
❑ a range of texts by Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Textual Concepts: Outcomes: Islander authors
❑ a range of quality texts from around the world,
TERM 2

including texts about intercultural and diverse

Summative Assessment:
Formative Assessment
Links to Stage 6 skills:
Unit:
experiences1
❑ a range of cultural, social and gender perspectives,
Learning intentions and Success Criteria: including from popular and youth cultures.
Text complexity
❑ ideas or knowledge
Literacy focus: ❑ structure
❑ vocabulary
❑ sentence complexity
❑ levels of meaning or subtlety
❑ modal elements.
Text type(s):
Writing Style:

Textual Concepts: Outcomes: ❑ Imaginative

❑ Persuasive
❑ Discursive
TERM 3

Summative Assessment: ❑ Informative

Modes:
Formative Assessment Learning intentions and Success Criteria: ❑ Reading
❑ Viewing
Links to Stage 6 skills: Literacy focus: ❑ Listening
❑ Expressing/ Representing
❑ Understanding/Analysis
❑ Reflection
Unit: Text type(s): ❑ Composing

Textual Concepts checklist:

Textual Concepts: Outcomes: ❑ argument
❑ authority
❑ character
TERM 4

Summative Assessment: ❑ code and convention

❑ connotation, imagery and symbol
❑ context
❑ genre
Formative Assessment Learning intentions and Success Criteria: ❑ intertextuality
❑ literary value
❑ narrative
Links to Stage 6 skills: Literacy focus: ❑ perspective
❑ point of view
❑ representation
❑ style
❑ theme
Stage 4 Scope & Sequence Planner – Year 8
Outcomes checklist:
Indicative hours: ❑ EN4-RVL-01
❑ EN4-URA-01
❑ EN4-URB-01
Unit: Text type(s): ❑ EN4-URC-01
❑ EN4-ECA-01

Textual Concepts: Outcomes: ❑ EN4-ECB-01

Text requirements:
TERM 1

❑ at least 2 works of extended prose

Summative Assessment:
Formative Assessment
Links to Stage 6 skills:
Unit:
Textual Concepts:
TERM 2
❑ at least 2 collections of poetry
❑ at least 2 films
❑ at least 2 drama texts (including at least one Shakespeare
Learning intentions and Success Criteria: play in Stage 5)
❑ a range of types of texts inclusive of short prose, visual,
spoken, multimodal and digital texts.
Literacy focus:
Text Selection:
❑ a range of fiction and non-fiction texts that are widely
regarded as quality literature
Text type(s): ❑ a range of texts by Australian authors
❑ a range of texts by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
authors
Outcomes: ❑ a range of quality texts from around the world, including
texts about intercultural and diverse experiences1
❑ a range of cultural, social and gender perspectives,

Summative Assessment: including from popular and youth cultures.

Formative Assessment
Links to Stage 6 skills:
Text complexity
❑ ideas or knowledge
Learning intentions and Success Criteria: ❑ structure
❑ vocabulary
❑ sentence complexity
❑ levels of meaning or subtlety
Literacy focus: ❑ modal elements.

Writing Style:
❑ Imaginative
Unit: Text type(s): ❑ Persuasive
❑ Discursive
Textual Concepts: Outcomes: ❑ Informative

Modes:
TERM 3

Summative Assessment: ❑ Reading

❑ Viewing
❑ Listening
Formative Assessment Learning intentions and Success Criteria: ❑ Expressing/ Representing
❑ Understanding/Analysis
❑ Reflection
Links to Stage 6 skills: Literacy focus: ❑ Composing

Textual Concepts checklist:

❑ argument
Unit: Text type(s): ❑ authority
❑ character
❑ code and convention
❑ connotation, imagery and symbol
Textual Concepts: Outcomes: ❑ context
❑ genre
TERM 4

❑ intertextuality
Summative Assessment: ❑ literary value
❑ narrative
❑ perspective
Formative Assessment Learning intentions and Success Criteria: ❑ point of view
❑ representation
❑ style
Links to Stage 6 skills: Literacy focus: ❑ theme