Lit Happens Episode 43: Reading to Write for Standard English Year 11 (2026 Programming Edition)!

Tune in to Lit Happens, where we, two dedicated HSC English educators, guide Standard English teachers through the Reading to Write unit for Year 11, building essential skills for the 2027 HSC. 

This episode unpacks the unit’s purpose, outcomes, content breakdown, text suggestions, classroom activities, and tips to bridge reading and writing effectively. We continue with our LIT OR QUIT segment in its twenty-fourth week, asking: "HSC English Paper 2: Lit or Quit?" Tailored for teachers fostering perceptive readers and confident writers, this episode equips you with practical strategies to transition students into Senior English.

What You’ll Learn:

• The true purpose of Reading to Write: not content recall, but developing analytical readers and thoughtful writers
• How the unit’s outcomes (EST-11-01 to EST-11-06) connect reading, writing, and reflection for Standard English
• How to teach Understanding and Responding through language, form, structure, and multimodal texts
• Programming ideas: text suggestions like Tim Winton’s collection and much more, activity scaffolds, and ICIP protocols for ATSI texts
• High-impact strategies: close reading to imitation, writer-reader journals, and peer workshops to build Band 5/6 habits

 

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