General capabilities 🔗
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase (ACELA1516) (EN3-5B) |
| 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) (EN3-5B) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA1525) (EN3-5A) |
| 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) (EN3-7C) |
| Responding to literature | Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts (ACELT1615) (EN3-7C) |
| Examining literature | Identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author’s individual style (ACELT1616) (EN3-7C) |
| Creating literature | Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways (ACELT1618) (EN3-2A) 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 | |
| Texts in context | Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches (ACELY1708) (EN3-7C) |
| 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) (EN3-1A) Use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions such as voice volume, tone, pitch and pace, according to group size, formality of interaction and needs and expertise of the audience (ACELY1816) (EN3-1A) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text (ACELY1711) (EN3-5B) Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers (ACELY1801) (EN3-5B) |
| Creating texts | 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) (EN3-3A) |