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Text Structure & Organisation

Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose, audience and context, including tense and types of sentences VCELA246 Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation VCELA247 Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts VCELA259 Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters VCELA260

Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas

Identify the effect on audiences of techniques, including shot size, vertical camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segments VCELA248 Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb and that these need to be in agreement VCELA261 Understand that verbs represent different processes (doing, thinking, saying, and relating) and that these processes are anchored in time through tense VCELA262 Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs VCELA273

Phonic & Word Knowledge

Understand how to apply knowledge of letter–sound relationships, and blending and segmenting to read and use more complex words with less common consonant and vowel clusters VCELA249 Recognise most high-frequency words, know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and know some homophones and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word VCELA250 Understand how to use letter–sound relationships and less common letter combinations to spell words VCELA263

Language for Interacting With Others

Understand that languages have different written and visual communication systems, different oral traditions and different ways of constructing meaning VCELA270 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 VCELA271 Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful VCELA272

Engaging With & Responding to Literature

Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others VCELT251 Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature VCELT252

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 VCELT253 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 VCELT254

Creating Literature

Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features VCELT264 Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts VCELT265

Literature & Contexts

Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons VCELT274

Texts in Context

Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view VCELY255

Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating

Read an increasing range of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts by combining phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge, using text processing strategies, including confirming, rereading and cross-checking VCELY256 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 VCELY257

Creating Texts

Analyse how different texts use verb groups to represent different processes (action, thinking, feeling, saying, relating) VCELY258 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 VCELY266 Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation VCELY267 Understand the conventions for writing words and sentences using joined letters that are clearly formed and consistent in size VCELY268 Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements VCELY269

Interacting with Others

Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations and use interaction skills, including active listening and clear, coherent communications VCELY275 Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence, using appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume VCELY276