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K–10English K–10 Syllabus (2022)

Implementation from 2024
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Content

Stage 5

Reading, viewing and listening to texts
Reading, viewing and listening skills
  • Apply Loading  pathways appropriate to form, Loading  and meaning, and connect ideas within and between Loading 

  • Use contextual cues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar or complex words

  • Develop a deeper understanding of Loading , ideas or attitudes by revisiting and reinterpreting texts to find new meaning

Reading, viewing and listening for meaning
  • Loading  the main ideas and thematic concerns represented in texts

  • Loading  how layers of meaning are constructed in texts and how this shapes a reader’s understanding and engagement

  • Draw on Loading  of texts to question, challenge and deepen understanding of both new and familiar texts

  • Loading  and Loading  personal responses to texts, explaining how aspects of the text, such as Loading , Loading , tone, Loading  or Loading , position a reader and influence these personal responses

  • Analyse how the use of language forms and features in texts have the capacity to create multiple meanings

  • Analyse how language use evolves over time and is influenced by social and technological changes and developments

Reading for challenge, interest and enjoyment
  • Read increasingly complex texts that challenge thinking, pique interest, enhance enjoyment and provoke a personal response

  • Engage in Loading  and varied reading that presents increasingly diverse and complex Loading  and experiences, including those of Loading , and respond in a range of ways, including through extended written responses

  • Consider how the social, cultural and ethical positions represented in texts represent, affirm or challenge views of the world

  • Loading  experiences of reading by sharing responses to texts

  • Evaluate the ways reading texts help us understand ourselves and make connections to others and the world

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

  • Reflect on how an appreciation of texts can be enhanced through re-reading, and close or critical study

  • Understand and reflect on the value of reading for personal growth and cultural richness

  • Use reading strategies, and evaluate 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 wider universal issues

  • Reflect on own experiences of reading by interacting with peers in meaningful ways about the value of reading

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