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Language for Interacting With Others

Understand that languages have different written and visual communication systems, different oral traditions and different ways of constructing meaning ACELA1475 Understand that successful cooperation with others depends on shared use of social conventions, including turn-taking patterns, and forms of address that vary according to the degree of formality in social situations ACELA1476 Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful ACELA1477

Text Structure & Organisation

Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences) ACELA1478 Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts ACELA1479 Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters ACELA1480 Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation ACELA1790

Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas

Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb and that these need to be in agreement ACELA1481 Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example: doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tense ACELA1482 Identify the effect on audiences of techniques, for example shot size, vertical camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segments ACELA1483 Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs ACELA1484

Phonic & Word Knowledge

Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words ACELA1485 Recognise and know how to write most high frequency words including some homophones ACELA1486 Understand how to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns ACELA1826 Know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word ACELA1827

Literature & Contexts

Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons ACELT1594

Engaging With & Responding to Literature

Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others ACELT1596 Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature ACELT1598

Examining Literature

Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative ACELT1599 Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose ACELT1600

Creating Literature

Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle ACELT1601 Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue ACELT1791

Texts in Context

Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view ACELY1675

Interacting with Others

Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations ACELY1676 Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence ACELY1677 Use interaction skills, including active listening behaviours and communicate in a clear, coherent manner using a variety of everyday and learned vocabulary and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume ACELY1792

Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating

Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts ACELY1678 Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on and self-correcting ACELY1679 Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features ACELY1680

Creating Texts

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose ACELY1682 Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation ACELY1683 Write using joined letters that are clearly formed and consistent in size ACELY1684 Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements ACELY1685