Year 9 skills in english

• Explaining how there might be more than one meaning in a text
• When studying Shakespeare; interpret characters' speech and action, the dramatic effects of characters' language and how the audience might respond
• Selecting appropriate quotations to demonstrate understanding and to support arguments
• Writing using more developed comments
• Using a wider range of more complex punctuation to guide the reader's response
• Exploring more sophisticated vocabulary
• Using figurative and rhetorical devices to target purpose and audience
• Varying clause and sentence structure for effect
• Checking for accuracy of more complex spellings
• Shaping the direction of discussion
• Being able to organise and talk spontaneously
• Listen attentively and making probing comments in response to others