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K–10English K–10 Syllabus (2022)

Implementation from 2024
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Content

Stage 4

Reading, viewing and listening to texts
Reading, viewing and listening skills
  • Apply Loading  pathways to determine form, Loading  and meaning

  • Use contextual cues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words

  • Apply a range of strategies to develop Loading  in reading aloud, including an understanding of pace, tone and Loading 

  • Revisit Loading  to develop a clear understanding of the Loading , ideas and attitudes they express

Reading, viewing and listening for meaning
  • Explore the main ideas and thematic concerns posed by a text for meaning

  • Engage with the ways texts contain layers of meaning, or multiple meanings

  • Loading  and understand that relevant Loading  and personal experience enables and enhances understanding when reading, viewing or listening to texts

  • Loading  personal responses to Loading , situations and issues in texts, recognising the role of written, oral or visual language in influencing these personal responses

  • Explain how the use of language forms and features in texts might create multiple meanings

  • Using a range of texts, Loading  how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors convey connections between Culture and identity

  • Understand how language use evolves over time and in different places and Loading , and is influenced by technological and social developments

Reading for challenge, interest and enjoyment
  • Read texts selected to challenge thinking, develop interest and promote enjoyment, to prompt a personal response

  • Read a variety of texts that present a range of Loading  and experiences, including those of Loading , and respond in a range of ways, including sustained written responses where appropriate

  • Read texts of interest for sustained periods of time and respond to this reading in a variety of ways

  • Use strategies to enhance interest and overcome challenges experienced when reading

  • Communicate purposefully with peers in response to texts

  • Understand the ways reading helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world

Reflecting
  • Reflect on how reading, viewing and listening to texts has informed learning

  • Reflect on how an understanding of texts can be enhanced through re-reading and close study

  • Loading  and reflect on the value of reading for personal growth and cultural awareness

  • Use reading strategies, and consider their effectiveness, when reflecting on the successes and challenges of extended reading

  • Reflect on how reading promotes a broad and balanced understanding of the world and enables students to explore universal issues

  • Reflect on own experiences of reading by sharing what was enjoyed, discussing challenges to strengthen an understanding of the value of reading

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