Within Moodle+ you will find a collection of documents that explore ways to map out the acquisition of critical writing features at structural and sentence level, treating critical writing as a teachable written form in its own right, rather than simply as a vehicle for demonstrating understanding of literary texts. 

The materials are unashamedly ambitious in terms of writing expectations and provide a suggested progression in critical writing. However, while they are set out by year group, they can be used for any age group of students: if a Year 11 student would benefit from practising at sentence level the elements suggested for Year 7, there is no issue with this. The principle behind the approach is that when teaching the new elements of the written form, the content of the literary criticism has already been taught and established - students have notes and examples at hand so that they know the content will be strong and they can focus on their written expression.

This taster document focuses on the early teaching of critical writing in Year 7. The Moodle+ collection includes materials that cover Year 6 - Year 11.