General capabilities 🔗
Content descriptions
| 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 (ACELA1525) (EN3-6B) |
| Literature | |
| Responding to literature | Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots (ACELT1614) (EN3-7C) 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, describe and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics between that define an author’s individual style (ACELT1616) (EN3-7C) 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) (EN3-1A) 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) 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) (EN3-3A) Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including medical and digital texts (ACELY1713) (EN3-3A) |