Reading texts as constructed arguments: context, representation, genre and the critical evaluation of sources.
These are the statements the English Year 10 syllabus makes about Reading and Viewing. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Close study of a extended text - Reading and Viewing, Year 10.
Theme, context and values - Reading and Viewing, Year 10.
Comparative study of texts - Reading and Viewing, Year 10.
Representation in media - Reading and Viewing, Year 10.
Genre study and appropriation - Reading and Viewing, Year 10.
Analysing persuasive nonfiction - Reading and Viewing, Year 10.
Critical evaluation of a source - Reading and Viewing, Year 10.
Unseen texts under time pressure - Reading and Viewing, Year 10.
Poetry: form as meaning - Reading and Viewing, Year 10.
The reader's role in meaning - Reading and Viewing, Year 10.
Year 10 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Reading and Viewing are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones English Year 10 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Reading and Viewing opens the English Year 10 course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses English Year 10 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.