Curriculum Alignment

Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts

Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots

Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts

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

Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse

Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways

Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice

Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches

Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions

Use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions such as voice volume, tone, pitch and pace, according to group size, formality of interaction and needs and expertise of the audience

Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text

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

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts

Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers

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

Reread and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices

Develop a handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and varies according to audience and purpose

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts