Curriculum Alignment

Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships

Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view

Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts

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

Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns

Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining

Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings

Identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times and compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary texts

Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and information

Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently

Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences

Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text

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

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features

Reread and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure

Write using clearly-formed joined letters, and develop increased fluency and automaticity

Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements