I engelskämnets centrala innehåll och kunskapskrav ställs det krav på att eleverna i slutet avårskurs 6 ska kunna skriva olika typer av texter. Samtidigt identifieras skrivandet som enmöjliggörande faktor för utvecklingen av ett andraspråk. Syftet med den här studien var att fåkunskap om hur elever i årskurs 6 stöds i skrivandet av olika texttyper på engelska utifrånläroboken och lärarens undervisning, vilket har skett genom en kombinerad metod avläroboksanalyser och semistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultatet visade att eleverna främst skrevberättande- och beskrivande texter. I läroböckerna gavs eleverna stöd genom att läsa ellerlyssna på texter kopplat till ämnet, introducera nyckelbegrepp, studera exempeltextersutformning och samtala om ämnet. För att stödja elevernas skrivande erbjöd lärarna tydligtavgränsade skrivuppgifter och gav återkoppling. Lärarna uppgav att de använde läroboken menatt de valde bland uppgifterna och tog de som ansågs passande samt att nivåskillnader mellanelever skapade svårigheter i skrivundervisningen. / The English curriculum has requirements for writing different kinds of texts in English in year6. The act of writing can also be a way to develop a second language. The purpose with thisstudy has therefore been to examine how English textbooks and teachers are working to supportpupils in year 6 in their writing of different kinds of texts. This has been done through acombination of content analysis and semi-structured interviews. The result showed that thepupils mainly wrote narrative- and describing texts. The textbooks gave the pupils support intheir writing through the work of reading texts connected to the subject, introducing keywords,studying texts as examples and through conversations about the subject. The teachers wereusing the textbooks by choosing exercises that were thought to be relevant. Further, theyoffered the pupils feedback on their texts and suggested that aspects of level differencesbetween the pupils’ knowledge affected the teaching.

Reading ability at the Swedish upper secondary school is decreasing for second language learners and the number of students reading literary texts is also declining. Our aim with this paper is to examine if reading fiction in an English as a Second language classroom at an upper secondary level can enhance students’ reading comprehension using in-depth strategies. This paper presents findings from several studies on fiction, in-depth strategies, and reading comprehension in upper secondary education. We have used research regarding learning English as a Second language (ESL), English as a Foreign Language (EFL), and English as a Native Language (ENL). In terms of fiction, we have chosen to examine textual fiction, novels, short stories, poems, and graphic novels. Furthermore, we will investigate whether graphic novels are better tools for enhancing reading comprehension. Our results show that using in-depth strategies and textual fiction in an upper secondary context enhances students’ reading comprehension. We also found that graphic novels enhance reading comprehension and are thus a viable tool for reading comprehension in the classroom context. However, we did not find sufficient evidence supporting the claim that graphic novels are a more effective tool than textual fiction overall.