General capabilities 🔗
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand that social interactions influence the way people engage with ideas and respond to others for example when exploring and clarifying the ideas of others, summarising their own views and reporting them to a larger group (ACELA1488) (EN2-1A) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Explore the effect of choices when framing an image, placement of elements in the image, and salience on composition of still and moving images in a range of types of texts (ACELA1496) (EN2-10C) Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases (ACELA1493) (EN2-9B) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships (ACELT1602) (EN2-10C) |
| Responding to literature | Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (ACELT1603) (EN2-11D) Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts (ACELT1604) (EN2-1A) |
| Examining literature | Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold reader’s interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension (ACELT1605) (EN2-10C) Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns (ACELT1606) (EN2-1A) |
| Creating literature | Create literary texts that explore students’ own experience and imagining (ACELT1607) (EN2-10C) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently (ACELY1688) (EN2-1A) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692) (EN2-1A) Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (ACELY1690) (EN2-8B) |
| Creating texts | Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features (ACELY1694) (EN2-1A) Re-read and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure (ACELY1695) (EN2-1A) Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements (ACELY1697) (EN2-3A) |