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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 VCELA339 Understand that cohesive links can be made in texts by omitting or replacing words VCELA348 Understand the uses of commas to separate clauses VCELA349

Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas

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 VCELA340 Investigate how complex sentences can be used in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend and explain ideas VCELA350 Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases VCELA351 Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion VCELA352

Phonic & Word Knowledge

Understand how to use phonic knowledge and accumulated understandings about blending, letter–sound relationships, common and uncommon letter patterns and phonic generalisations to recognise and write increasingly complex words VCELA353 Understand how to use banks of known words, word origins, base words, prefixes, suffixes, spelling patterns and generalisations to spell new words, including technical words and words adopted from other languages VCELA354

Language for Interacting With Others

Understand that different social and geographical dialects or accents are used in Australia in addition to Standard Australian English VCELA362 Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase VCELA363 Understand the uses of objective and subjective language and bias VCELA364

Engaging With & Responding to Literature

Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots VCELT341 Identify and explain how choices in language, including modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts VCELT342

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 VCELT343 Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse VCELT344

Creating Literature

Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts VCELT355 Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways VCELT356

Literature & Contexts

Make connections between own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts VCELT365

Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating

Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers VCELY345 Select, navigate and read increasingly complex texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies to recall information and consolidate meaning VCELY346 Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts VCELY347

Texts in Context

Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches VCELY357

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 VCELY358 Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices VCELY359 Develop a handwriting style that is legible, fluent and that can vary depending on context VCELY360 Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts VCELY361

Interacting with Others

Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions, and use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions according to group size, formality of interaction and needs and expertise of the audience VCELY366 Participate in formal and informal debates and 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 VCELY367