Students create book reviews and share their personal preferences about their favourite texts.
Discuss the effects of some literary devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose
Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative
Discuss connections between personal experiences and character experiences in literary texts and share personal preferences
Discuss characters, events and settings in different contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons
Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others
Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative
Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose
Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
Recognises and uses an increasing range of strategies to reflect on their own and others’ learning
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons
Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others
Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative
Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose