“The New Literacy Set” Project

Reciprocal exchange of information, ideas, facts,

opinions, beliefs, feelings and attitudes through

verbal or non verbal means between two people

or within a group of people.

Process by which information is exchanged

between individuals through a common system

of symbol and signs of behaviour.

The communication process is divided into three basic components:

Sender

Channel

Receiver

FICTION NON FICTION

IMMAGINATION FACT

It aims to entertain the reader.

It often tells a story, even if it is a partially true one like a historical novel.

It uses descriptive words, including adverbs and adjectives.

It uses images or 'word pictures' that help us to imagine what is being described.

“It seemed like just another cold, wet, winter night in downtown Pelleville. He hiked up his collar, stepped nearer the kerb and hailed a cab. "Where to, mister?" asked the driver."The Vegas", was all he replied before the cab sped away.In the dry warmth, Spickler slipped his hand inside his coat and felt for the pistol. He knew it was there. He knew he'd be okay.”

• There is a character.• The story is usually told in

the first or third person.• Descriptive and figurative

language is used.• Sentences are varied to keep it

interesting.

This is a STORY

“If I could have just one more chanceFor us to sing, for us to dance.I'd like to make you feel the sameInstead of thinking it's a game.”

This is a POEM

• It can be about characters, places, events, emotions, or beliefs.

• Descriptive and figurative language is often used.

• Many layers of meaning can be packed into just a few words.

• Rhyme and rhythm can be used.

Detective Johnson: And you're telling us that nobody can vouch for you being at home on that evening...Wilkins: I told you, I wasn't feeling too clever and I just wanted to get some kip. Do you let people know when you're getting some kip, hey? Be serious...Constable Talbot enters.Const. Talbot: Sorry, sir. There's something you should know... outside.Det. Johnson: (standing) Interview paused at 8.17pm. Right, let's get this sorted.Det. Johnson and Const. Talbot leave.

This is a PLAY

• It will be written as a script to be performed by actors.• Characters' names are listed next to the lines they

should speak.• It will include stage directions to tell the actors what to

do and how to speak.• The language can be natural and realistic and

sometimes poetic.• Sections are usually divided into acts, which may be

divided into scenes.

Creative writing five top tips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeYM8TKGEyc

How to write descriptively:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSoRzTtwgP4

information texts

recount texts

instruction texts

explanation texts

persuasion texts

argument texts

Information texts do just what their name suggests - they inform you.

•It provides clear information about asubject.

•It is usually written in the present tense.•It is normally written in the third person.•It organises and links information clearly,

often using subheadings, shortparagraphs, diagrams, photographs,maps, etc.

Recount texts are about things that have happened

My favourite shop was Mrs Deakin's, the newsagentand sweet shop. I'd skip there every Saturdaymorning with the three penny bit that dad gave me.

• It is written about something that happened.• It may use a descriptive, story-like style although

it is factual.• It is written in the past tense.

Sponge cakeIngredients

100g/4oz butter100g/4oz sugar100g/4oz self-raising flour2 eggsa little waterFirst, place the sugar and butter in a mixing bowl.Use a wooden spoon or electric mixer to beat them together until the mixture is smooth and light. Add the eggs and carefully beat them into the sugar and butter mixture...

•It instructs the reader, giving clear guidance about how todo something.•It will be ordered.•It can use bullet points, pictures and diagrams, to make theinformation clear.•It will use imperative verbs (bossy verbs), which tell youwhat to do - for example "make","add" and "stick!".

Explanation texts have a lot in common with information texts. They explain things

in more detail. Many textbooks and reference books are explanation texts.

Choose which option you wantand press the correspondingbutton. You will then bepresented with a further list ofoptions. These will enable you toconfigure your computer'smemory in the most efficient way.

• It explains a subject and helps you tounderstand it more.

• It uses the present tense.• It's impersonal.• It may use diagrams, pictures, maps

and photographs.

Persuasive texts try to persuade you to do something - like buy something or give money to charity. Magazine articles and newspaper reports may try to persuade you to agree with them.

Dear friend,Are you tired of the daily grind? Sick ofworking all hours of the day for littlereward? Tired of never having enoughmoney to really enjoy yourself?Well, now there's a way out...

•It tries to convince you to do or agree withsomething.•It contains a mix of fact and opinion.•It may use repetition, "soundbites" andpersuasive or emotive language.•It often seems to speak directly to the reader.

Argument texts should be balanced and fair, and give all sides of an argument before coming to a conclusion.

Many farmers, and even conservationists,however, have always argued that the fox isa pest, which attacks livestock and must becontrolled.

• It discusses an issue, considering all points ofview.

• It often uses a formal and impersonal style toseem balanced.

• It uses connectives to connect points, forexample "however", "but", "similarly"

1) Papers should not exceed 7000 words

(including footnotes and Works Cited) and should

follow the latest MLA Handbook. Papers should

be submitted in double-spaced format (two hard

copies and a disk) to the editors of the issue at the

following addresses:

Tina Krontiris, School of English, Aristotle

University, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece, and

Jyotsna G. Singh, Department of English,

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

48824-1036.

2) Most artists are very nervous of scientific analysis. They feel it destroys something about the human aspect of creativity. […] Some fear that too much analysis will only break the spell. Likewise, most scientists see the creative arts as an entirely subjective development that long ago left science to tread the long road to objective truth alone.Whole books have been written about this bifurcation, but here I want to talk about some interesting points of contact between art and science that are facilitated by the growth in our understanding of complex organization and pattern. I believe that the sciences of complexity have a lot to learn from the creative arts. The arts display some of the most intricate known examples of organised complexity. Likewise, the creative arts may have something to learn from anappreciation of what complexity is and how it comes about.

3) Yes, I have returned to this arcaded city,

unwisely, it may be. I rented a place in one of the

little alleyways hard by the Duomo, I shall not say

which one, for reasons that are not entirely clear to

me, although I confess I worry intermittently

about the possibility of a visit from the police. It is

not much, my bolt-hole, a couple of rooms, lowceilinged,

dank; the windows are so narrow and

dirty I have to keep a table lamp burning all day

for fear of falling over something in the half dark.

4) The geography of the Aran Islands is very

simple, yet it may need a word to itself. There are

three islands: Aranmor, the north island, about

nine miles long; Inishmaan, the middle island,

[…] nearly round in form; and the south island,

Inishere − in Irish, east island, − like the middle

island but slightly smaller. They lie about thirty

miles from Galway, up the centre of the bay, but

they are not far from the cliffs of County Clare, on

the south, or the corner of Connemara on the

north.

5) Acanthus

A thistle-like plant (common to the warm

Mediterranean region) whose narrow and

pointed-lobed leaves, when stylized, form

the characteristic decoration of the

Corinthian and Composite Orders of

columns.

6) President George W. Bush has told us that the

question of whether to withdraw from Iraq is one

that his successors will have to deal with − not

him. I don’t think so. Bush is not going to have

that luxury of passing Iraq along. You see, the

insurgency in Iraq is in its “last throes” − just like

Dick Cheney said. Unfortunately, it’s being

replaced by anarchy in many neighbourhoods − not

democracy. And I don’t believe the American

people will put up with two and half more years of

babysitting anarchy instead of midwifing

democracy.

7) The dancers were trickling away on to the touchlines ofthe long-floor. The walls were decorated with scenes fromthe remoter past, portrayed in what no doubt an advancedstyle, so that in the one nearest Dixon, for example, somelack of perspective or similar commodity made a phalanxof dwarf infantrymen seem to be falling from the skiesupon their much larger barbarian adversaries who, unawareof this danger overhead, gazed threateningly into the emptymiddle distance. Lowering his eyes from these memorials,he caught sight of Michie talking and laughing with hisgirl. She had the kind of water-gipsy face that affected himuncomfortably.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/english/reading/text_types/activity/