Comprehension


 * COMPREHENSION **
 * **YEAR LEVEL ** || **ELEMENT CODE ** || **ENGLISH STRANDS ** || **ENGLISH SUB-STRANDS ** || **SUB-STRAND ELEMENT ** || **ELABORATION ** || **ENGLISH TYPE ** || **GENERAL CAPABILITIES ** || **CROSS-CURRICULA PRIORITIES ** ||
 * 0F || (ACELA1430) || LANGUAGE || Text structure and organisation || Understand that texts can take many forms, can be very short (for example an exit sign) or quite long (for example an information book or a film) and that stories and informative texts have different purposes (ACELA1430) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">sharing experiences of different texts and discussing some differences

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">discussing the purpose of texts, for example ‘This text will tell a story’, ‘This text will give information’, repeating parts of texts, for example characteristic refrains, predicting cumulative storylines, reciting poetic and rhyming phrases || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">0F || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1786) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Expressing and developing ideas || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts (ACELA1786) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">talking about how a ‘different’ story is told if we read only the words, or only the pictures; and the story that words and pictures make when combined

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring how the combination of print and images in texts create meaning || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, SPEAKING ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">0F || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1437) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Expressing and developing ideas || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand the use of vocabulary in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school (ACELA1437) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">building vocabulary through multiple speaking and listening experiences

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">discussing new vocabulary found in texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">bringing vocabulary from personal experiences, relating this to new experiences and building a vocabulary for thinking and talking about school topics || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy, Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">0F || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1575) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literature and context || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences (ACELT1575) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">recognising that there are storytellers in all cultures

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">viewing stories by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytellers from online sources

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">comparing experiences depicted in stories with students’ own

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">engaging with texts that reflect the social and cultural groups to which students belong || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Intercultural understanding, Literacy, Personal and social competence || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Aboriginal Torres Strait Is history and culture ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">0F || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1783) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Responding to literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (ACELT1783) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">talking about stories and authors, choosing favourites, discussing how students feel about what happens in stories

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using art forms and beginning forms of writing to express personal responses to literature and film experiences

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">talking about people, events and ideas in texts, enabling students to connect them to their own experiences and to express their own opinions about what is depicted || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">0F || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1578) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Examining literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text (ACELT1578) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying some features of culture related to characters and events in literary texts, for example dress, food and daily routines

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">listening, responding to and joining in with rhymes, poems, chants and songs || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Intercultural understanding, Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">0F || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1646) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interacting with others || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations (ACELY1646) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">listening to, remembering and following simple instructions

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">sequencing ideas in spoken texts, retelling well known stories, retelling stories with picture cues, retelling information using story maps

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">listening for specific things, for example the main idea of a short statement, the details of a story, or to answer a given question

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">participating in informal situations, for example play-based experiences which involve the imaginative use of spoken language

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">participating in class, group and pair discussions about shared experiences including shared texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">asking and answering questions to clarify understanding || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">0F || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1648) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts (ACELY1648) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">talking about what is ‘real’ and what is imagined in texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying and selecting texts for information purposes and commenting on how the text might help with a task || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">0F || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1649) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Read predictable texts, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge (ACELY1649) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">navigating a text correctly, starting at the right place and reading in the right direction, returning to the next line as needed, matching one spoken word to one written word

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">reading aloud with attempts at fluency and intonation

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">attempting to work out unknown words by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">predicting what might happen on the basis of experience of this kind of text; at the sentence level predicting the meaning on the basis of syntax and word meaning || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">0F || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1650) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interacting with others || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">talking about the meanings in texts listened to, viewed and read

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">visualising elements in a text (for example drawing an event or character from a text read aloud)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">providing a simple, correctly-sequenced retelling of narrative texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">relating one or two key facts from informative texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">finding a key word in a text to answer a literal question

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making links between events in a text and students’ own experiences

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making an inference about a character's feelings

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">discussing and sequencing events in stories

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">drawing events in sequence, recognising that for some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories the sequence of events may be cyclical || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Aboriginal Torres Strait Is history and culture ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1444) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Language for interaction || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand that language is used in combination with other means of communication, for example facial expressions and gestures to interact with others (ACELA1444) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• recognising the effect of words, symbols, gestures and body language on the way communications are received by others || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Intercultural understanding, Literacy, Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1447) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Text structure and organisation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways (ACELA1447) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• discussing and comparing the purposes of familiar texts drawn from local contexts and interests

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• becoming familiar with the typical stages of types of text including recount and procedure

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• using different types of texts, for example procedures (including recipes) and discussing the text structure || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1453) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Expressing and developing ideas || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning (ACELA1453) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• talking about what is ‘real’ and what is imagined in texts, for example ‘This is the section about platypuses in the book about mammals’ || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Sustainability ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1582) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Responding to literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students' own experiences (ACELT1582) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• discussing characters from books and films and whether these are life-like or imaginary (for example talking animals)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• comparing characters and events in texts to students’ own experiences || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1656) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interacting with others || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening behaviours, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions (ACELY1656) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• listening for details in spoken informative texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• participating in informal and structured class, group and pair discussions about content area topics, ideas and information

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• speaking clearly and with appropriate volume

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• interacting confidently and appropriately with peers, teachers, visitors and community members

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• learning to value listening, questioning and positive body language and understanding that different cultures may approach these differently

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• formulating different types of questions to ask a speaker, such as open and closed questions and ‘when’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Intercultural understanding, Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1657) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interacting with others || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Make short presentations using some introduced text structures and language, for example opening statements (ACELY1657) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• reporting the results of group discussions

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• providing simple explanations about how to do or make something

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• giving short oral presentations about areas of interest or content area topics, speaking clearly and with appropriate volume and using extended vocabulary and a growing knowledge of content-specific words || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy, Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1658) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Describe some differences between imaginative informative and persuasive texts (ACELY1658) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• comparing and discussing texts identifying some features that distinguish those that ‘tell stories’ from those that ‘give opinions’

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• selecting texts for a particular purpose or task, for example a website that will give information about whales, a book that will tell a story about a possum || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1659) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Read supportive texts using developing phrasing, fluency, contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge and emerging text processing strategies, for example prediction, monitoring meaning and rereading (ACELY1659) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• using contextual and semantic knowledge to make predictions about a text’s purpose and content

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• combining knowledge of context, meaning, grammar and phonics to decode text

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• recognising most high frequency sight words when reading text

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• self-correcting when reading does not make sense, using pictures, context, meaning, phonics and grammatical knowledge

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• reading aloud with developing fluency and intonation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1660) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• using elements in books and screen texts, for example illustrations, diagrams, sound and movement, to support reading

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• making connections between the text and students’ own experiences, and between information in print and images

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• finding key information in a text

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• making inferences about characters’ feelings and motives

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• building knowledge about the topic of the text and learning new vocabulary before and during reading

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• making predictions from the cover, from illustrations and at points in the text before reading on

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">• retelling the events or key information in the text orally, in writing and/or through digital or arts media || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1462) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Language for interaction || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things (ACELA1462) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring how language is used to express feelings including learning vocabulary to express a gradation of feeling, for example ‘happy’, ‘joyful’, ‘pleased’, ‘contented’

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring in stories, everyday and media texts moral and social dilemmas; such as right and wrong, fairness/unfairness, inclusion and exclusion; learning to use language to describe actions and consider consequences

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring how language is used to construct characters and settings in narratives, including choice of nouns such as ‘girl’, ‘princess’ or ‘orphan’, and choice of adjectives such as ‘gentle’, ‘timid’ or ‘frightened’ || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Ethical behaviour , Intercultural understanding, Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1463) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Text structure and organisation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose (ACELA1463) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying the topic and type of a text through its visual presentation, for example cover design, packaging, title/subtitle and images

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">becoming familiar with the typical stages of text types, for example simple narratives, instructions and expositions || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">ACELA1464) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Text structure and organisation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand how texts are made cohesive through resources, for example word associations, synonyms, and antonyms (ACELA1464) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring how texts develop their themes and ideas, building information through connecting similar and contrasting dissimilar things

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">mapping examples of word associations in texts, for example words that refer to the main character || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1469) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Expressing and developing ideas || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words (ACELA1469) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">comparing two versions of the same story, for example ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, identifying how a character’s actions and reactions are depicted differently by different illustrators || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1470) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Expressing and developing ideas || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose (ACELA1470) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">interpreting new terminology drawing on prior knowledge, analogies and connections with known words || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Sustainability ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1587) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literature and context || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created (ACELT1587) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring iconography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">recognising recurring characters, settings and themes in Dreaming stories experienced through texts, films and online sources

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">discussing moral and teaching stories from varied cultures, identifying and comparing their central messages || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Ethical behaviour , Intercultural understanding || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Aboriginal Torres Strait Is history and culture ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1589) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Responding to literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in and between texts (ACELT1589) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">discussing each others’ preferences for stories set in familiar or unfamiliar worlds, or about people whose lives are like or unlike their own || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Ethical behaviour, Intercultural understanding, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1590) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Responding to literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences (ACELT1590) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">describing features of texts from different cultures including recurring language patterns, style of illustrations, elements of humour or drama, and identifying the features which give rise to their personal preferences

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">connecting the feelings and behaviours of animals in anthropomorphic stories with human emotions and relationships

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">drawing, writing and using digital technologies to capture and communicate favourite characters and events || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Intercultural understanding, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1591) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Examining literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways (ACELT1591) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">describing features of text settings including time, colours used to portray year, season, and place (country or city) and how this impacts on the characters

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">describing plots including beginnings (orientation), how the problem (complication) is introduced and solved (resolution), and considering how these features construct meanings

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying features of imaginary or fantasy texts, for example magic powers, shifts in time

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">investigating Aboriginal stories, found from online sources, that explain physical features of the landscape and identify and describe the common features of language used

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">comparing two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures, describing similarities and differences in authors’ points of view || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Intercultural understanding || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Aboriginal Torres Strait Is history and culture ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1666) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interacting with others || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others' ideas in discussions (ACELY1666) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using spoken language for problem solving, and exploring ideas and concepts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">listening for specific information and providing two or more key facts from an informative text spoken or read aloud

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">listening to, remembering and responding to detailed instructions || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1667) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interacting with others || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics (ACELY1667) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">adjusting presentation for different audiences

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">preparing and giving oral presentations, including reports of group discussions, using more formal speech and specific vocabulary about content area topics

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">listening and responding to presentations, including those using multimedia, on familiar and learned topics, recording key information, and connecting new and existing knowledge about a topic || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1668) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts (ACELY1668) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying the main purpose of a text, including whether the author wants to entertain, explain or persuade and considering how audiences might respond to those texts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Sustainability ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1669) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Read less predictable texts with phrasing and fluency by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies, for example monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting (ACELY1669) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using prior and learned knowledge and vocabulary to make and confirm predictions when reading text

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using grammatical knowledge to predict likely sentence patterns when reading more complex narratives and informative texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using knowledge of sound–letter relationships and high frequency sight words when decoding text

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">monitoring own reading and self-correcting when reading does not make sense, using illustrations, context, phonics, grammar knowledge and prior and learned topic knowledge

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using grammar and meaning to read aloud with fluency and intonation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1670) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures (ACELY1670) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making connections between the text and students’ own experiences and experiences with other texts, comparing authors’ differing point of view on a topic

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making connections between information in print and images

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">building on and using prior knowledge and vocabulary

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making valid inferences using information in a text and students’ own prior knowledge

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">predicting, asking and answering questions as they read, and summarising and reviewing meaning || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1671) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Creating texts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1671) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">learning how to plan spoken and written communications so that listeners and readers might follow the sequence of ideas or events

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">sequencing content according to text structure

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using appropriate simple and compound sentence to express and combine ideas

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using vocabulary, including technical vocabulary, appropriate to text type and purpose || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1483) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Expressing and developing ideas || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify the effect on audiences of techniques, for example shot size, vertical camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segments (ACELA1483) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">noting how the relationship between characters can be depicted in illustrations through: the positioning of the characters (for example facing each other or facing away from each other); the distance between them; the relative size; one character looking up (or down) at the other (power relationships); facial expressions and body gesture

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">observing how images construct a relationship with the viewer through such strategies as: direct gaze into the viewer's eyes, inviting involvement and how close ups are more engaging than distanced images, which can suggest alienation or loneliness || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1484) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Expressing and developing ideas || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs (ACELA1484) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring examples of language which demonstrate a range of feelings and positions, and building a vocabulary to express judgments about characters or events, acknowledging that language and judgments might differ depending on the cultural context || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Ethical behaviour, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1594) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literature and context || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons (ACELT1594) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">reading texts in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children/ young people are the central characters/protagonists and making links to students’ own lives, noting similarities

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring the ways that the same story can be told in many cultures, identifying variations in the storyline and in music (for example ‘The Ramayana’ story which is told to children in India, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, Tibet and Malaysia) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Intercultural understanding, Literacy || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Aboriginal Torres Strait Is history and culture, Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1596) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Responding to literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT1596) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">discussing relevant prior knowledge and past experiences to make meaningful connections to the people, places, events, issues and ideas in the text

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring texts that highlight issues and problems in making moral decisions and discussing these with others

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">drawing on literature from Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander or Asian cultures, to explore commonalities of experience and ideas as well as recognising difference in lifestyle and world view || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Ethical behaviour , Intercultural understanding, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1675) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Texts in context || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view (ACELY1675) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">discussing how a text presents the point of view of the main character, and speculating on what other characters might think or feel

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">recognising that there is more than one way of looking at the same event and that stories seen through the eyes of one character privileges some aspects of the story over others

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">speculating about what other characters might think or feel and retelling the story from other perspectives (for example ‘Cinderella’ from the view of the ‘Ugly Sisters’) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Intercultural understanding, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1678) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts (ACELY1678) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying the author’s point of view on a topic and key words and images that seem intended to persuade listeners, viewers or readers to agree with the view presented || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1679) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on and self-correcting (ACELY1679) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">combining different types of knowledge (for example world knowledge, vocabulary, grammar, phonics) to make decisions about unknown words, reading on, reviewing and summarising meaning

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">analysing the way illustrations help to construct meaning and interpreting different types of illustrations and graphics

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">reading text types from a student’s culture to enhance confidence in building reading strategies

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">reading aloud with fluency and intonation

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">reading a wider range of texts, including chapter books and informative texts, for pleasure || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1680) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">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) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making connections between the text and students own experience and other texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making connections between the information in print and images

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making predictions and asking and answering questions about the text drawing on knowledge of the topic, subject-specific vocabulary and experience of texts on the same topic

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using text features and search tools to locate information in written and digital texts efficiently

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">determining important ideas, events or details in texts commenting on things learned or questions raised by reading, referring explicitly to the text for verification

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making considered inferences taking into account topic knowledge or a character’s likely actions and feelings || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Literacy , Personal and social competence || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Sustainability ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1489) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Language for interaction || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand differences between the language of opinion and feeling and the language of factual reporting or recording (ACELA1489) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying ways thinking verbs are used to express opinion, for example ‘I think’, ‘I believe’, and ways summary verbs are used to report findings, for example ‘we concluded’ || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Sustainability ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1490) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Text structure and organisation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience (ACELA1490) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">becoming familiar with the typical stages and language features of such text types as: simple narrative, procedure, simple persuasion texts and information reports || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1793) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Expressing and developing ideas || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify features of online texts that enhance readability including text, navigation, links, graphics and layout (ACELA1793) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">•participating in online searches for information using navigation tools and discussing similarities and differences between print and digital information || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy, Numeracy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1602) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literature and context || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships (ACELT1602) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">commenting on how authors have established setting and period in different cultures and times and the relevance of characters, actions and beliefs to their own time

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">comparing different authors’ treatment of similar themes and text patterns, for example comparing fables and allegories from different cultures and quest novels by different authors || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1603) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Responding to literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (ACELT1603) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">sharing and discussing students’ own and others’ understanding of the effects of particular literary techniques on their appreciation of texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">drawing comparisons between multiple texts and students’ own experiences. Commenting orally, in written form and in digital reviews on aspects such as: 'Do I recognise this in my own world?'; 'How is this text similar to or different from other texts I’ve read?'; 'How common is it to human experience in the real world?'; 'What new ideas does it bring?'; ’How do they fit with what I believe?' || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Ethical behaviour , Intercultural understanding ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1604) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Responding to literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts (ACELT1604) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">examining the author’s description of a character’s appearance, behaviour and speech and noting how the character’s development is evident through his or her dialogue and changing relationships and the reactions of other characters to him or her

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">sharing views using appropriate metalanguage (for example ‘The use of the adjectives in describing the character really helps to create images for the reader’) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1605) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Examining literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">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) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">examining the author’s description of a character’s appearance, behaviour and speech and noting how the character’s development is evident through his or her dialogue and changing relationships and the reactions of other characters to him or her

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying pivotal points in the plot where characters are faced with choices and commenting on how the author makes us care about their decisions and consequences || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">ACELY1686) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Texts in context || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times and compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary texts (ACELY1686) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">viewing documentaries and news footage from different periods, comparing the style of presentation, including costumes and iconography with contemporary texts on similar topics and tracking changing views on issues, for example war, race, gender || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Ethical behaviour , Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1689) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interacting with others || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences (ACELY1689) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">reporting on a topic in an organised manner, providing relevant facts and descriptive detail to enhance audience understanding, and beginning to refer to reliable sources to support claims || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1690) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (ACELY1690) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">describing the language which authors use to create imaginary worlds; how textual features such as headings, subheadings, bold type and graphic organisers are used to order and present information, and how visual codes are used, for example those used in advertising to represent children and families so that viewers identify with them || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1691) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Read different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and reviewing (ACELY1691) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">reading new and different kinds of texts with the use of established word identification strategies, including knowledge of the topic and of text type together with self monitoring strategies; including rereading, self questioning and pausing, and including self correction strategies such confirming and cross-checking

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">reading aloud with fluency and expression

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">reading a wide range of different types of texts for pleasure || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1692) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making connections between the text and students’ own experience and other texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making connections between information in print and images

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">building and using prior knowledge and vocabulary

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">finding specific literal information

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">asking and answering questions

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">creating mental images

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">finding the main idea of a text

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">inferring meaning from the ways communication occurs in digital environments including the interplay between words, images, and sounds

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">bringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge to new reading tasks, selecting and using texts for their pertinence to the task and the accuracy of their information || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Literacy , Personal and social competence || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Sustainability ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1511) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Expressing and developing ideas || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Explain sequences of images in print texts and compare these to the ways hyperlinked digital texts are organised, explaining their effect on viewers’ interpretations (ACELA1511) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">interpreting narrative texts told as wordless picture books

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying and comparing sequences of images revealed through different hyperlink choices || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1795) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Responding to literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences (ACELT1795) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">orally, in writing or using digital media, giving a considered interpretation and opinion about a literary text, recognising that a student’s view may not be shared by others and that others have equal claims to divergent views || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1611) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Examining literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes (ACELT1611) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">discussing how figurative language including simile and metaphor can make use of a comparison between different things, for example ‘My love is like a red, red rose’; ‘Tyger!, Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night’; and how by appealing to the imagination, it provides new ways of looking at the world

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">investigating the qualities of contemporary protest songs, for example those about Indigenous peoples and those about the environment || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Ethical behaviour, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1701) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify and explain characteristic text structures and language features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (ACELY1701) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">explaining how the features of a text advocating community action, for example action on a local area preservation issue, are used to meet the purpose of the text || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Sustainability ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1702) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning (ACELY1702) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">bringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge to new reading tasks

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">selecting and using texts for their pertinence to the task and the accuracy of their information

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using word identification, self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies to access material on less familiar topics, skimming and scanning to check the pertinence of particular information to students’ topic and task

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">reading a wide range of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for pleasure and to find and use information ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1703) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using research skills including identifying research purpose, locating texts, gathering and organising information, evaluating its relative value, and the accuracy and currency of print and digital sources and summarising information from several sources || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1705) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Creating texts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Reread and edit student's own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features (ACELY1705) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">editing for flow and sense, organisation of ideas and choice of language, revising and trying new approaches if an element is not having the desired impact || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1517) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Language for interaction || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand the uses of objective and subjective language and bias (ACELA1517) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">understanding when it is appropriate to share feelings and opinions (for example in a personal recount) and when it is appropriate to remain more objective (for example in a factual recount)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">differentiating between reporting the facts (for example in a news story) and providing a commentary (for example in an editorial) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy , Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1518) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Text structure and organisation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects (ACELA1518) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring a range of everyday, community, literary and informative texts discussing elements of text structure and language features and comparing the overall structure and effect of authors’ choices in two or more texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">examining different works by an author who specialises in humour or pathos to identify strategies such as exaggeration and character embarrassment to amuse and to offer insights into characters’ feelings, so building empathy with their points of view and concern for their welfare || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1520) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Text structure and organisation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Understand that cohesive links can be made in texts by omitting or replacing words (ACELA1520) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">noting how writers often leave out words that have already been mentioned (for example 'Tina ate three apples and Simon ate two. [apples]’)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">noting how writers often substitute a general word for a more specific word already mentioned, thus creating a cohesive link between the words (for example 'Look at those apples. Can I have one?')

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">recognising how cohesion can be developed through repeating key words or by using synonyms or antonyms

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">observing how relationships between concepts can be represented visually through similarity, contrast, juxtaposition, repetition, class-subclass diagrams, part-whole diagrams, cause-and-effect figures, visual continuities and discontinuities || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELA1525) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LANGUAGE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Expressing and developing ideas || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA1525) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying (for example from reviews) the ways in which evaluative language is used to assess the qualities of the various aspects of the work in question || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1613) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literature and context || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1613) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">recognising the influence our different historical, social and cultural experiences may have on the meaning we make from the text and the attitudes we may develop towards characters, actions and events || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Intercultural understanding, Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1614) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Responding to literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots (ACELT1614) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring texts on a similar topic by authors with very different styles, for example comparing fantasy quest novels or realistic novels on a specific theme, identifying differences in the use of narrator, narrative structure and voice and language style and register || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1616) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Examining literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author’s individual style (ACELT1616) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring two or more texts by the same author, drawing out the similarities, for example subject or theme, characterisation, text structure, plot development, tone, vocabulary, sense of voice, narrative point of view, favoured grammatical structures and visual techniques in sophisticated picture books || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELT1617) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERATURE || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Examining literature || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse (ACELT1617) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying how language choice and imagery build emotional connection and engagement with the story or theme

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">describing how a character’s experience expressed through a verse novel impacts on students personally, how the author controls the revelation of the experiences and how the verse story builds meaning to its climax when we understand the whole || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Literacy, Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1708) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Texts in context || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches (ACELY1708) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying and exploring news reports of the same event, and discuss the language choices and point of view of the writers

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using display advertising as a topic vehicle for close analysis of the ways images and words combine for deliberate effect including examples from the countries of Asia (for example comparing Hollywood film posters with Indian Bollywood film posters) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1709) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interacting with others || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions (ACELY1709) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using strategies, for example pausing, questioning, rephrasing, repeating, summarising, reviewing and asking clarifying questions

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">exploring personal reasons for acceptance or rejection of opinions offered and linking the reasons to the way our cultural experiences can affect our responses

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">recognising that closed questions ask for precise responses while open questions prompt a speaker to provide more information || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">SPEAKING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social competence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1711) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text (ACELY1711) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">comparing the structures and features of different texts, including print and digital sources on similar topics, and evaluating which features best aid navigation and clear communication about the topic || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1712) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings (ACELY1712) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">bringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge to new reading tasks, selecting, evaluating and using texts for their pertinence to the task and the accuracy of their information

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using word identification, self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using research skills including identifying research purpose, locating texts, gathering and organising information, evaluating and using information

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identifying and using texts for a wide range of purposes, selecting texts by favourite authors and trying new ones || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1713) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts (ACELY1713) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making connections between the text and students’ own experience or other texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">making connections between information in print and images

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">finding specific literal information

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using prior knowledge and textual information to make inferences and predictions

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">asking and answering questions

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">finding the main idea of a text

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">summarising a text or part of a text || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING, WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1801) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Interpreting, analysing and evaluating || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers (ACELY1801) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">identify how authors use language to position the reader and give reasons || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">READING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, Literacy ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">(ACELY1714) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">LITERACY || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Creating texts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1714) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">creating informative texts for two different audiences, such as a visiting academic and a Year 3 class, that explore an aspect of biodiversity

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">using rhetorical devices, images, surprise techniques and juxtaposition of people and ideas and modal verbs and modal auxiliaries to enhance the persuasive nature of a text, recognising and exploiting audience susceptibilities || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">WRITING || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Critical and creative thinking, ICT, Literacy ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Top of Form <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Bottom of Form