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K–10English K–10 Syllabus

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Tell us about the texts you teach: English K–10 Syllabus
We want to hear about the quality texts students read in their study of English K−10.

Content

Stage 3

Understanding and responding to literature
Narrative
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  • Recognise that narratives reflect both personal and common lived experiences and offer models of behaviour, which may be rejected or accepted

  • Describe how patterns in narratives set up expectations and notice when those patterns are Loading 

  • Describe the difference in Loading  between Aboriginal Loading  stories and Loading 

Characterisation
  • Loading  attributes of Loading  and use similar attributes when creating texts

  • Recognise how character archetypes and stereotypes are represented in Loading 

  • Analyse how engagement with characters within and between texts invites enjoyment of literature

  • Loading  the ways different elements of a text contribute to character development and adapt these elements when creating texts

Imagery, symbol and connotation
  • Analyse how Loading  in literature can enhance meaning and affect the Loading 

  • Recognise recurring and universal Loading  and Loading  in literature, describe their meanings and experiment with symbol and imagery when creating texts

  • Describe how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors use symbols and imagery to share cultural Loading  and stories in texts

Genre
  • Loading  how Loading  can be recognised by established Loading  that govern content and construction of literature, and apply this knowledge when creating texts

  • Loading  and experiment with elements in literature that do not follow the form and function of a single genre

Theme
  • Identify core social, personal and moral messages within and between texts

  • Identify and describe messages common to lived experiences that recur in literature and use these Loading  when creating texts

Perspective and context
  • Identify how perspective is made evident through authorial choices

  • Explore how perspective is influenced by personal, social and cultural Loading 

  • Describe how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors’ language use promotes a shared understanding of cultural context

  • Reflect on and explain how personal, social and cultural context is expressed in own texts

Argument and authority
  • Recognise how an Loading  is influenced by perspective and Loading  texts that adopt a perspective beyond personal experience

  • Understand the Loading  given to objectivity versus subjectivity in arguments

  • Analyse and Loading  features within and between texts, that characterise an authoritative Loading 

  • Compare the reliability and validity of texts to make judgements about their authority

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