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K–10English K–10 Syllabus

Record of changes
Implementation for K–2 from 2023 and 3–10 from 2024
Expand for detailed implementation advice

Content

Stage 5

Expressing ideas and composing texts B
Planning, monitoring and revising
  • Engage with model texts to develop and refine features, structures and stylistic approaches in own work

  • Research, summarise, evaluate and synthesise information and perspectives from different sources to generate new ideas and create detailed and informed texts

  • Develop an effective thesis for extended analytical and persuasive texts that is based on critical thinking about a text or topic

  • Plan a progressive sequence of arguments or ideas, and set goals at conceptual, whole text and paragraph levels

  • Produce co-constructed complex texts to represent a diversity of ideas and values

  • Select from a range of collaborative drafting strategies and feedback processes to improve clarity, meaning and effect in texts

Reflecting
  • Reflect on own texts, using technical vocabulary to explain and evaluate authorial decisions appropriate to the target audience and specific purpose

  • Discuss the pleasures, challenges and successes experienced in the processes of understanding and composing

  • Evaluate the effectiveness of compositional choices in writing that have been influenced by elements of other texts, using specific examples

  • Evaluate own ability to plan, monitor and revise during the composition process, and how this can improve clarity, cohesion and effect

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