| 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) (EN2-1A) |
| 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) |
| Phonics and word knowledge | Know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word (ACELA1827) (EN2-5A) |
| 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 (ACELT1569) (EN2-11D) |
| 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 | |
| Texts in context | Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view (ACELY1675) (EN2-11D) |
| Interacting with others | Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations (ACELY1676) (EN2-11D) Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence (ACELY1677) (EN2-6B) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts (ACELY1678) (EN2-8B) 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) (EN2-4A) |
| Creating texts | 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) |