General capabilities 🔗
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand differences between the language of opinion and feeling and the language of factual reporting or recording (ACELA1489) (EN2-1A) 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) |
| Text structure and organisation Phonics and word knowledge | Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (ACELA1491) (EN2-9B) Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes and word origins to spell more complex words (ACELA1779) (EN2-5A) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources into students’ own texts including vocabulary encountered in research (ACELA1498) (EN2-9B) 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) |
| Literature | |
| Examining literature | Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension (ACELT1605) (EN2-8B) |
| Literature and context Responding to literature Creating Literature | Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships (ACELT1602) (EN2-8B) Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (ACELT1603) (EN2-6B) Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607) (EN2-2A) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and information (ACELY1687) (EN2-10C) |
| Creating texts | Re-read and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure (ACELY1695) (EN2-2A) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluation | Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692) (EN2-4A) |