Booklet - The Great Gatsby - Reading to Write

A printable, pdf booklet to guide students through F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novella, ‘The Great Gatsby’. It is focussed on enhancing students’ reading and writing skills, with a focus on learning to write by reading a mentor text, as well as exploring what it looks like to be readers and writers in the 21st century.

The booklet covers a range of activities to expand students’ ability to read and write in various styles: imaginative, discursive, reflective and persuasive.

Contents of this booklet:

• Rationale of the ‘reading to write’ unit
• Beliefs about reading and writing
• Introducing writing style
• Context
• Fitzgerald’s writing style
• The title
• The opening
• Point of view
• Close analysis
• Characterisation
• Dialogue
• Punctuation
• Guides on writing in various styles

This is the standalone student booklet which can be used as the foundation of an entire Year 11 Advanced English unit as it is aligned with the NSW syllabus.