General capabilities 🔗
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand that successful cooperation with others depends on shared use of social conventions, including turn-taking patterns, and forms of address that vary according to the degree of formality in social situations (ACELA1476) (EN2-8B) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences) (ACELT1478) (EN2-8B) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Identify the effect on audiences of techniques, for example shot size, vertical camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segments (ACELA1483) (EN2-8B) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons (ACELT1594) (EN2-10C) |
| Responding to literature | Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT1596) (EN2-11D) Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature (ACELT1598) (EN2-1A) |
| Examining literature | Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative (ACELT1599) (EN2-1A) Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose (ACELT1600) (EN2-10C) |
| Creating literature | Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle (ACELT1601) (EN2-2A) Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue (ACELT1791) (EN2-2A) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations (ACELY1676) (EN2-6B) Use interaction skills, including active listening behaviours and communicate in a clear, coherent manner using a variety of everyday and learned vocabulary and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume (ACELY1792) (EN2-6B) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1680) (EN2-10C) |
| Creating Text | Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print, and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1682) (EN2-2A) Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation (ACELY1683) |