| Language | |
| Text structure and 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) (EN3-7C) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA 1525) (EN3-5B) Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases (ACELA1523) (EN3-6B) |
| Phonics and 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) (EN3-4A) 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) (EN3-4A) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1613) (EN3-1A) |
| Responding to literature | Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts (ACELT1615) (EN3-6B) |
| Examining literature | Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse (ACELT1617) (EN3-7C) |
| Creating literature | 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) |
| Literacy | |
| 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) (EN3-8D) 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) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts (ACELY1713) (EN3-3A) |