Next year, the new VCE English study design will be implemented at Units 3 & 4. A big part of this will involve teaching the new Craft of Writing area of study and looking at mentor texts as a model for how students can write about an idea. Many of the mentor texts on the…
There are two reasons you might now consider teaching students how to write ‘explainers’ in junior English. Firstly, in the new VCE English study design, the craft of writing AOS includes ‘explain’ as one of the four purposes for which students can write. Secondly, and perhaps more interestingly, explainers are a more and more common…