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K–10English K–10 Syllabus

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Content

Stage 4

Understanding and responding to texts B
Theme
  • Understand how repetition, patterning and language features used within a Loading  communicate ideas about social, personal, ethical and philosophical issues and experiences, and Loading  this understanding through written, spoken, visual and multimodal responses

Perspective and context
  • Understand how Loading  are shaped by language and text

  • Explore how the perspectives of Loading  shape engagement with, and response to, texts

  • Loading  how elements of personal and social Loading  can inform the perspective and Loading  of texts and influence creative decisions

  • Consider the influence of cultural context on language

  • Explore how specific elements of languages and dialects, including Loading , Auslan, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, and Loading , can shape expressions of cultural context in texts

Argument and authority
  • Understand how Loading  in text is constructed through specific language forms, features and structures, and apply this understanding in own texts

  • Loading  how the subjectivity or objectivity of arguments in texts is constructed through specific language forms, features and structures, and reflect on these in own texts

  • Loading  how engaging personal Loading  is constructed in texts through linguistic and stylistic choices, and experiment with these choices in own texts

  • Select and sequence appropriate evidence from texts and reliable sources to support arguments and build Loading 

  • Understand how the authority of a text is constructed by the author’s choices in content and Loading , and use this knowledge to influence the composition of own texts

  • Examine how audiences can express degrees of authority over meaning in a text

  • Understand that the authority of a text may be questioned through comparison with other texts

Style
  • Loading  the distinctive rhetorical and Loading  qualities of a text that contribute to its textual style, and reflect on these qualities in own texts

  • Examine how different styles can be recognised by distinctive features of language and form in a range of texts

  • Describe and reflect on how particular arrangements of language features in texts can be found appealing according to personal preferences

  • Loading  elements of an author’s work that represent their distinct style

  • Understand how the style of a text can be the product of a particular time period, Loading  or Loading 

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