General capabilities 🔗
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts (ACELA1448) (EN1-4A) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) (ACELA1452) (EN1-9B) Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts, including appropriate use of formal and informal terms of address in different contexts (ACELA1454) (EN1-6B) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Discuss how authors create characters using language and images (ACELT1581) (EN1-11D) |
| Creating literature | Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication (ACELT1586) (EN1-10C) |
| Responding to literature | Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students’ own experiences (ACELT1582) (EN1-11D) Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters of characters in different texts (ACELT1584) (EN1-7B) |
| Literacy | |
| Creating texts | Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams (ACELY1661) (EN1-2A) Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs (ACELY1664) (EN1-3A) |
| Interacting with others | Make short presentations using some introduced text structures and language, for example opening statements (ACELY1657) (EN1-6B) Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening behaviours, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions (ACELY1656) (EN1-1A) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660) (EN1-4A) |