This creative task for middle to upper primary students requires students to design a poster representing a theme from Blueback. Using drawings, symbols, and captions, students demonstrate their understanding of the theme and its portrayal in the text.
Understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features
Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced
Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources
Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences
Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view
Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes
Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers
Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase
Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text
Identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features
Discusses how language is used to achieve a widening range of purposes for a widening range of audiences and contexts
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language
Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words
Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style
Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes
Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices
Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view
Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts