A student:

• responds to and composes texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure EN4-1A

  • Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features

    • use increasingly sophisticated verbal, aural, visual and/or written techniques, eg imagery, figures of speech, selective choice of vocabulary, rhythm, sound effects, colour and design, to compose imaginative texts for pleasure

    • identify and evaluate devices that create tone, for example humour, wordplay, innuendo and parody in poetry, humorous prose, drama or visual texts (ACELT1630)

• effectively uses a widening range of processes, skills, strategies and knowledge for responding to and composing texts in different media and technologies EN4-2A

  • Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features

    • use processes of representation, including the creative use of symbols, images, icons, clichés, stereotypes, connotations and particular aural, visual and/or digital techniques

• makes effective language choices to creatively shape meaning with accuracy, clarity and coherence EN4-4B

  • Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features

    • combine visual and digital elements to create layers of meaning for serious, playful and humorous purposes

    • experiment with particular language features drawn from different types of texts, including combinations of language and visual choices to create new texts (ACELT1768, ACELT1805)

    • analyse how point of view is generated in visual texts by means of choices, for example gaze, angle and social distance(ACELA1764)

• thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information, ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts EN4-5C

  • Respond to and compose texts

    • compose a range of visual and multimodal texts using a variety of visual conventions, including composition, vectors, framing and reading pathway

• identifies and explains connections between and among texts EN4-6C

  • Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features

    • investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts or images to enhance and layer meaning (ACELA1548)

A student:

• responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure EN5-1A

  • respond to and compose texts

    • explore and explain the combinations of language and visual choices that authors make to present information, opinions and perspectives in different texts (ACELY1745)

• effectively uses and critically assesses a wide range of processes, skills, strategies and knowledge for responding to and composing a wide range of texts in different media and technologies EN5-2A

  • understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features

    • review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts for control of content, organisation, sentence structure, vocabulary, and/or visual features to achieve particular purposes and effects (ACELY1747, ACELY1757)

  • respond to and compose texts

    • use increasingly sophisticated processes of representation to respond to and compose complex spoken, written, visual, multimodal and/or digital texts for a wide range of purposes and audiences, considering and evaluating the effect of the technology

• selects and uses language forms, features and structures of texts appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts, describing and explaining their effects on meaning EN5-3B

  • engage personally with texts

    • engage with a range of increasingly complex language forms, features and structures of texts in meaningful, contextualised and authentic ways

  • understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features

    • evaluate techniques (eg contrast, exaggeration, juxtaposition or changing chronological order) used in spoken, written and visual texts to, for example, construct plot and create emotional responses

  • respond to and compose texts

    • create literary texts with a sustained ‘voice’, selecting and adapting appropriate text structures, literary devices, language, auditory and visual structures and features for a specific purpose and intended audience (ACELT1815)

• thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and increasingly complex ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts in a range of contexts EN5-5C

  • develop and apply contextual knowledge

    • compare ways in which spoken, written, visual, multimodal and digital texts are shaped according to personal, historical, cultural, social, technological and workplace contexts

  • understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features

    • investigate the ways web and digital technologies use and manipulate visual images, hyperlinks, sound and the written word to create meaning

  • respond to and compose texts

    • evaluate the ways inference, point of view, figurative language and alternative readings can be used creatively as strategies for responding to and composing spoken, written, visual, multimodal and digital texts beyond the literal level