General capabilities 
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience (ACELA 1490) (EN2-8B) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources in students’ own texts including vocabulary encountered in research (ACELA 1498) (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) (EN2-8B) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships (ACELT1602) (EN2-10C) |
| Responding to literature | Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts (ACELT1604) (EN2-4A) Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (ACELT1603) (EN2-11D) |
| 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) (EN2-10C) |
| Creating literature | Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794) (EN2-2A) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | Identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times an d compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary texts (ACELY1686) (EN2-4A) |
| 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 coherently (ACELY1688) (EN2-1A) Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences (ACELY1689) (EN2-6B) |
| 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) (EN2-2A) Reread and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure (ACELY 1695) (EN2-2A) 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) |
| 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) (EN2-4A) |