General capabilities 🔗
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view (ACELA1502) (EN3-3A) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand that the starting point of a sentence gives prominence to the message in the text and allows for prediction of how the text will unfold (ACELA1505) (EN3-6B) |
| Literature | |
| Responding to literature | Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others (ACELT1609) (EN3-1A) Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences (ACELT1795) (EN3-1A) |
| Examining literature | 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) |
| Creating literature | Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors (ACELT1798) (EN3-2A) Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced. (ACELT1612) (EN3-7C) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | 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) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | 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) Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703) (EN3-3A) |
| Creating Texts | 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) Re-read and edit student’s own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features (ACELY1705) (EN3-2A) |