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Language for Interacting With Others

Understand that different social and geographical dialects or accents are used in Australia in addition to Standard Australian English ACELA1515 Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase ACELA1516 Understand the uses of objective and subjective language and bias ACELA1517

Text Structure & Organisation

Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects ACELA1518 Understand that cohesive links can be made in texts by omitting or replacing words ACELA1520 Understand the uses of commas to separate clauses ACELA1521

Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas

Investigate how complex sentences can be used in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend and explain ideas ACELA1522 Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases ACELA1523 Identify and explain how analytical images like figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to our understanding of verbal information in factual and persuasive texts ACELA1524 Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion ACELA1525

Phonic & Word Knowledge

Understand how to use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical words ACELA1526 Understand how to use phonic knowledge and accumulated understandings about blending, letter-sound relationships, common and uncommon letter patterns and phonic generalisations to read and write increasingly complex words ACELA1830

Literature & Contexts

Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts ACELT1613

Engaging With & Responding to Literature

Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots ACELT1614 Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts ACELT1615

Examining Literature

Identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author’s individual style ACELT1616 Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse ACELT1617

Creating Literature

Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways ACELT1618 Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice ACELT1800

Texts in Context

Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches ACELY1708

Interacting with Others

Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions ACELY1709 Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis ACELY1710 Use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions such as voice volume, tone, pitch and pace, according to group size, formality of interaction and needs and expertise of the audience ACELY1816

Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text ACELY1711 Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings ACELY1712 Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts ACELY1713 Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers ACELY1801

Creating Texts

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience ACELY1714 Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices ACELY1715 Develop a handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and varies according to audience and purpose ACELY1716 Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts ACELY1717