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General Capabilities evident throughout this unit include Literacy, Personal and Social Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking, and Ethical Understanding.
The content in this unit links to the Australian Curriculum: Year 2 (English).
Other curriculum areas represented in this unit includes Health:
| Language Language for interaction | Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things (ACELA1462) (EN1-7B) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose (ACELA1463) (EN1-7B) Understand how texts are made cohesive through language features, including word associations, synonyms, and antonyms (ACELA1464) (EN1-9B) Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists (ACELA1465) (EN1-3A) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives (ACELA1468) (EN1-4A) Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words (ACELA1469) (EN1-8B) Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose (ACELA1470) (EN1-2A) |
| Literature Responding to literature | Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created (ACELT1587) (EN1-11D) Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in and between texts (ACELT1589) (EN1-4A) |
| Examining literature | Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs (ACELT1592) (EN1-1A) |
| Creating literature | Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts (ACELT1593) (EN1-2A) |
| Literacy Texts in context | Discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts (ACELY1665) (EN1-4A) |
| Interacting with others | Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others’ ideas in discussions (ACELY1666) (EN1-1A) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Read less predictable texts with phrasing and fluency by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies, for example monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting (ACELY1669) (EN1-4A) Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures (ACELY1670) (EN1-4A) |
| Creating texts | Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1671) (EN1-2A) Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs (ACELY1674) (EN1-3A) |