Comprehension that goes past retrieval: inference, technique, character and the way a text is built.
These are the statements the English Year 7 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.
Finding the main idea and supporting detail - Reading and Viewing, Year 7.
Inference from evidence - Reading and Viewing, Year 7.
Narrative structure and plot - Reading and Viewing, Year 7.
Character, setting and mood - Reading and Viewing, Year 7.
Figurative language - Reading and Viewing, Year 7.
Sound devices in poetry - Reading and Viewing, Year 7.
Visual techniques in images and film - Reading and Viewing, Year 7.
Narrative perspective - Reading and Viewing, Year 7.
Comparing two texts on one idea - Reading and Viewing, Year 7.
Judging a text's purpose and audience - Reading and Viewing, Year 7.
Year 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.