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K–10English K–10 Syllabus

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Stage 4

Understanding and responding to texts A
Representation
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Code and convention
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  • Understand how language forms, features and structures, in a variety of texts, vary according to Loading , Loading  and Loading , and Loading  this understanding through written, spoken, visual and multimodal responses

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  • Explore how Loading  has been influenced by a range of languages and dialects

Connotation, imagery and symbol
  • Analyse how Loading  and devices can represent ideas, thoughts and feelings to communicate meaning

  • Apply knowledge of how different patterns and combinations of figurative language devices can shape meaning throughout a text through established or dynamic associations, and experiment with these devices in own texts

  • Loading  how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors use figurative language and devices to shape meaning

Point of view
  • Recognise how texts engage and position the audience to perceive events, Loading  and ideas using Loading  Loading  and focalisers, Loading , sequencing and intrusion, and apply this understanding in own texts

  • Understand how choice of first, second and third-person voice can establish different relationships between creator and audience, and experiment with changes in Loading  in own texts

Characterisation
  • Analyse how engaging characters are constructed in texts through a range of language features and structures, and use these features and structures in own texts

  • Describe how characters in texts, including stereotypes, archetypes, flat and rounded, static and dynamic characters represent values and attitudes, and experiment with these in own texts

  • Understand how the interactions of characters, such as protagonists and antagonists, might be perceived to represent aspects of human relationships, and experiment with interactions when composing texts

Narrative
  • Understand narrative conventions, such as setting, plot and sub-plot, and how they are used to represent events and personally engage the reader, viewer or listener with ideas and values in texts, and apply this understanding in own texts

  • Loading  how narratives can depict personal and collective identities, values and experiences

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