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K–10English K–10 Syllabus

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Stage 5

Understanding and responding to texts A
Representation
  • Loading  how contextual, creative and unconscious influences shape the composition, understanding and interpretation of all Loading 

Code and convention
  • Use Loading  effectively to analyse how meaning is constructed by linguistic and stylistic elements in Loading 

  • Analyse how language forms, features and structures, specific or conventional to a text’s Loading , Loading , Loading  and Loading , shape meaning, and experiment with this understanding through written, spoken, visual and multimodal responses

  • Loading  how texts use, adapt or Loading  textual Loading  across a range of Loading  and Loading  to shape new meanings, and explore this in own texts

Connotation, imagery and symbol
  • Analyse how Loading  and devices can be used to represent complex ideas, thoughts and feelings to contribute to larger patterns of meaning in texts, and experiment with this in own texts

  • Analyse how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors use figurative language and devices to represent Loading , identity and experience

Point of view
  • Loading  elements of focalisation, such as omniscience, limitations, indirect speech, tone, reliability and multiple narrators, and how these interact to shape perceptions of meaning in texts, and apply this in own texts

  • Recognise the difference between the actual author and authorial Loading  in texts and use this understanding to Loading  texts with other kinds of imagined authors

Characterisation
  • Analyse how engaging, dynamic and complex Loading  are constructed in texts using language features and structures, and use these features and structures in own texts

  • Explore how characters in texts can be lifelike constructions with whom audiences establish intellectual and emotional connections, and can be perceived to reflect, challenge or subvert particular values and attitudes

  • Analyse how characters can serve structural roles in Loading , such as foils and drivers of action and conflict, and manipulate these ideas when composing own texts

Narrative
  • Analyse how narrative conventions vary across Loading , modes, media and contexts and how they can be used to represent ideas and values and shape responses, and apply this understanding in own texts

  • Explore how narratives can represent and shape personal and shared identities, values and experiences

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