Wide+Reading+Requirements+yr12

  **What you should know about wide reading…. ** · at least 9 texts that are appropriate in a Year 12 English programme and are at Level 7 of the curriculum · texts you have read yourself · reading you have completed throughout the year

What should I read?

o of text categories, including extended and shorter texts – our wide reading activity states that you should read at least **five extended texts.** o of cultural perspectives linked to New Zealand, to other countries and ethnicities o of texts and/or authors with established critical reputations o of texts that are written by both male and female writers, or feature characters or viewpoints from both genders. **If I’m reading short stories, do I have to read all the short stories in one collection; then write about several of them? ** For poetry or short stories, you need to read **collections** of short stories or poems. This could be several short texts that may be drawn from various sources, rather than from a single collection. The entry you write could be based on just one [or more] stories or poems.  **Across the nine texts you select from various genre – such as fiction, ****non fiction, articles, poetry, web texts - ****<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">is your selection at level 7 of the curriculum? ** <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For example: · //<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pride and Prejudice’: Pre 20C fiction // · //<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">‘Daggers’: fiction // · //<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">‘I am Not Esther’: NZ fiction // · //<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">‘Closed, Stanger’: NZ fiction // · //<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">‘The Wait’: short story from student writing anthology ‘This Other Place’ // · //<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">‘Michael King’ : Listener feature article // · //<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">‘The last seven months of Anne Frank’: non fiction // · //<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">’8 Minutes’: hyperfiction text, through English On Line // · //<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">‘Feed’: science fiction //<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You’ll also write a response on each text you read – there is more about this in the next two pages. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> //<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">3 How does wide reading fit in with other parts of the English programme? //<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> o <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">an extended text studied by the class, provided you have read the text yourself and are interested in developing a wide reading entry on this text o <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">feature articles read as part of research o <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">background reading to formal writing. <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Texts that are read aloud to the class can’t be included as part of the wide reading programme. You must read all the texts yourself.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Reading an ‘inclusive variety of texts’ **<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">means that the texts selected should include a balance:
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Your wide reading texts can **often work in with other parts of your programme.** This could include: