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• VCELT219

  Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways

  Elaborations

  • describing features of text settings including time, colours used to portray year, season, and place (country or city) and how this impacts on the characters
  • describing plots including beginnings (orientation), how the problem (complication) is introduced and solved (resolution), and considering how these features construct meanings
  • identifying features of imaginary or fantasy texts, for example magic powers, shifts in time
  • investigating Aboriginal stories, found from online sources, that explain physical features of the landscape and identify and describe the common features of language used
  • comparing two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures, describing similarities and differences in authors’ points of view

  VCELT219 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT274

  Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons

  Elaborations

  • reading texts in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children/young people are the central characters/protagonists and making links to own lives, noting similarities
  • exploring the ways that the same story can be told in many cultures, identifying variations in the storyline and in music (for example ‘The Ramayana’ story which is told to children in India, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, Tibet and Malaysia)

  VCELT274 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT228

  Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts

  Elaborations

  • creating imaginative reconstructions of stories and poetry using a range of print and digital media
  • telling known stories from a different point of view
  • orally, in writing or using digital media, constructing a sequel to a known story

  VCELT228 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT243

  Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs

  Elaborations

  • exploring poems, chants, rhymes or songs from different cultures which class members may bring from home
  • learning to recite, sing or create interpretations of poems, chants, rhymes or songs from students’ own and other different cultures

  VCELT243 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT159

  Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images

  Elaborations

  • drawing, labelling and role playing representations of characters or events
  • reciting rhymes with actions
  • using digital technologies to retell events and recreate characters from favourite print and film texts

  VCELT159 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Literature

• VCELT192

  Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication

  Elaborations

  • creating visual representations of literary texts from Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander or Asian cultures
  • writing character descriptions drawn from illustrations in stories
  • retelling key events in stories using oral language, arts, digital technologies and performance media

  VCELT192 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT264

  Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures including through the use of visual features

  Elaborations

  • drawing on literary texts read, viewed and listened to for inspiration and ideas, appropriating language to create mood and characterisation
  • innovating on texts read, viewed and listened to by changing the point of view, revising an ending or creating a sequel

  VCELT264 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT251

  Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others

  Elaborations

  • discussing relevant prior knowledge and past experiences to make meaningful connections to the people, places, events, issues and ideas in the text
  • exploring texts that highlight issues and problems in making moral decisions and discussing these with others
  • drawing on literature from Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander or Asian cultures, to explore commonalities of experience and ideas as well as recognising difference in lifestyle and world view

  VCELT251 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT252

  Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature

  Elaborations

  • building a conscious understanding of preference regarding topics and genres of personal interest (for example humorous short stories, school and family stories, mysteries, fantasy and quest, series books)
  • selecting and discussing favourite texts and explaining their reasons for assigning greater or lesser merit to particular texts or types of texts

  VCELT252 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT254

  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

  Elaborations

  • identifying the effect of imagery in texts, for example the use of imagery related to nature in haiku poems
  • exploring how rhythm, onomatopoeia and alliteration give momentum to poetry and prose read aloud, and enhance enjoyment

  VCELT254 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT265

  Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts

  Elaborations

  • creating visual and multimodal texts based on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander or Asian literature, applying one or more visual elements to convey the intent of the original text
  • creating multimodal texts that combine visual images, sound effects, music and voice overs to convey settings and events in a fantasy world

  VCELT265 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT253

  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

  Elaborations

  • identifying and discussing the use of descriptive adjectives (‘in the middle of a vast, bare plain’) to establish setting and atmosphere (‘the castle loomed dark and forbidding’) and to draw readers into events that follow
  • discussing the language used to describe the traits of characters in stories, their actions and motivations: ‘Claire was so lonely; she desperately wanted a pet and she was afraid she would do anything, just anything, to have one to care for’

  VCELT253 | Curriculum content | English | Level 3 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT282

  Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships

  Elaborations

  • commenting on how authors have established setting and period in different cultures and times and the relevance of characters, actions and beliefs to their own time
  • comparing different authors’ treatment of similar themes and text patterns, for example comparing fables and allegories from different cultures and quest novels by different authors

  VCELT282 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT298

  Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining

  Elaborations

  • drawing upon literary texts they have encountered and experimenting with changing particular aspects, for example the time or place of the setting, adding characters or changing their personalities, or offering an alternative point of view on key ideas

  VCELT298 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT297

  Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings

  Elaborations

  • collaboratively plan, compose, sequence and prepare a literary text along a familiar storyline, using film, sound and images to convey setting, characters and points of drama in the plot

  VCELT297 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT284

  Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques

  Elaborations

  • examining the author’s description of a character’s appearance, behaviour and speech and noting how the character’s development is evident through his or her dialogue and changing relationships and the reactions of other characters to him or her
  • identifying pivotal points in the plot where characters are faced with choices and commenting on how the author makes us care about their decisions and consequences

  VCELT284 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT285

  Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts

  Elaborations

  • defining spoonerisms, neologisms and puns and exploring how they are used by authors to create a sense of freshness, originality and playfulness
  • discussing poetic language, including unusual adjectival use and how it engages us emotionally and brings to life the poet’s subject matter (for example ‘He grasps the crag with crooked hands’/wee timorous beastie)

  VCELT285 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT283

  Describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts

  Elaborations

  • examining the author’s description of a character’s appearance, behaviour and speech and noting how the character’s development is evident through his or her dialogue and changing relationships and the reactions of other characters to him or her
  • sharing views using appropriate metalanguage (for example ‘The use of the adjectives in describing the character really helps to create images for the reader’)

  VCELT283 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT306

  Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view

  Elaborations

  • sharing and discussing own and others’ understanding of the effects of particular literary techniques on their appreciation of texts
  • drawing comparisons between multiple texts and students’ own experiences. Commenting orally, in written form and in digital reviews on aspects such as: 'Do I recognise this in my own world?'; 'How is this text similar to or different from other texts I’ve read?'; 'How common is it to human experience in the real world?'; 'What new ideas does it bring?'; ’How do they fit with what I believe?'

  VCELT306 | Curriculum content | English | Level 4 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT328

  Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced

  Elaborations

  • using texts with computer-based graphics, animation and 2D qualities, consider how and why particular traits for a character have been chosen

  VCELT328 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Writing | Literature