Thematic Areas: Education and humanity, Health, sports and adventure, Media and society, History and culture, Ecology and development, Science and technology, Globalisation and economy, Humour and satire, Democracy and human rights, Home life, family and social relationships, Arts, music and creation, Fantasy, Career and entrepreneurship, Power and politics, War and peace, Critical thinking.
Text Types: Interviews, book/film reviews, news reports and articles, literary writings, reports, academic publications, letters, essays, news articles, biographies/auto-biographies, product guides, poems, blogs, brochures, emails, travelogues/memoire.
Number of Texts: Maximum 21 reading texts of moderate length (not exceeding 2000 words).
Genres and Number of Texts: Short stories (7), Poems (5), Essays (5), One act plays (3). (Total 20 texts)
Focus Tasks: Glossary, literary devices, comprehension (short and long, literature-based reading, reading between the lines, appreciation, interpretation), writing a summary, describing the character, comparing and contrasting, critical and creative writing.
Paragraphs
Personal letters (letters to friends and relatives), emails, blogs
Essays (descriptive, narrative, argumentative and expository)
News articles
Formal reports based on project works or mini-research
Narratives (personal experiences, stories, events, travelogues, memoire)
Descriptions (persons, events)
Summaries
Character sketch
Book/film review
Transferring information from para-orthographic texts
Communique
Mechanics of writing
Writing strategies
Process approach to writing