Curriculum summary

Understand that patterns of language interaction vary across social contexts and types of texts and that they help to signal social roles and relationships. (ACELA1501) (EN3-1A)

Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view. (ACELA1502) (EN3-8D)

Understand that different social and geographical dialects or accents are used in Australia in addition to Standard Australian English. (ACELA1515)   (EN3-1A)

Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects. (ACELA1518) (EN3-7C)

Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts. (ACELT1608) (EN3-8D)

Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts. (ACELT1613) (EN3-8D)

Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others. (ACELT1609)   (EN3-2A)

Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences. (ACELT1795) (EN3-1A)

Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots. (ACELT1614) (EN3-7C)

Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts. (ACELT1615) (EN3-6B)

Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responses. (ACELT1610) (EN3-8D)

Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes. (ACELT1611) (EN3-3A)

Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse. (ACELT1617) (EN3-7C)

Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced. (ACELT1612) (EN3-7C)

Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors. (ACELT1798) (EN3-2A)

Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways. (ACELT1618) (EN3-7C)

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) (EN3-2A)

Clarify understanding of content as it unfolds in formal and informal situations, connecting ideas to students’ own experiences and present and justify a point of view. (ACELY1699) (EN3-8D)

Use interaction skills, for example paraphrasing, questioning and interpreting non-verbal cues and choose vocabulary and vocal effects appropriate for different audiences and purposes. (ACELY1796) (EN3-1A)

Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements. (ACELY1700) (EN3-1A)

Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions.(ACELY1709) (EN3-1A)

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) (EN3-1A)

Identify and explain characteristic text structures and language features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text. (ACELY1701) (EN3-5B)

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text. (ACELY1711) (EN3-3A)

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience. (ACELY1704) (EN3-2A)

Use a range of software including word processing programs with fluency to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements (ACELY1707) (EN3-2A)

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) (EN3-2A)

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts (ACELY1717) (EN3-2A)