English / Level 4 / Literature / Examining literature
Content description
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques
Elaborations
examining the author’s description of a character’s appearance, behaviour and speech and noting how the character’s development is evident through his or her dialogue and changing relationships and the reactions of other characters to him or her
identifying pivotal points in the plot where characters are faced with choices and commenting on how the author makes us care about their decisions and consequences
