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• VCELT114

  Know some characteristics and features of literary texts, such as characters, beginning and ending in stories and rhyme in poetry

  Elaborations

  • knowing that there are different types of literary texts, for example story, poetry

  VCELT114 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT241

  Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences

  Elaborations

  • describing features of texts from different cultures including recurring language patterns, style of illustrations, elements of humour or drama, and identifying the features which give rise to their personal preferences
  • connecting the feelings and behaviours of animals in anthropomorphic stories with human emotions and relationships
  • drawing, writing and using digital technologies to capture and communicate favourite characters and events

  VCELT241 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT207

  Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with own experiences

  Elaborations

  • discussing characters from books and films and whether these are life-like or imaginary (for example talking animals)
  • comparing characters and events in texts to own experiences

  VCELT207 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | 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

• 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

• 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

• VCELT313

  Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts

  Elaborations

  • describing how aspects of literature, for example visuals, symbolic elements, dialogue and character descriptions, can convey information about cultural elements, such as beliefs, traditions and customs
  • identifying variability within cultural contexts in literary texts, recognising the diversity of people’s experiences within a cultural group such as differences in setting and lifestyle between urban and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  VCELT313 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT336

  Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others

  Elaborations

  • posing and discussing questions, such as ‘Should this character have behaved as they did?’, and beginning to make balanced judgments about the dilemmas characters face and relative merit and harm

  VCELT336 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT315

  Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responses

  Elaborations

  • identifying the narrative voice (the person or entity through whom the audience experiences the story) in a literary work, discussing the impact of first person narration on empathy and engagement
  • examining texts written from different narrative points of view and discussing what information the audience can access, how this impacts on the audience’s sympathies, and why an author might choose a particular narrative point of view
  • examining the narrative voice in texts from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions, which include perspectives of animals and spirits, about how we should care for the Earth, for example reflecting on how this affects significance, interpretation and response

  VCELT315 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT356

  Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways

  Elaborations

  • creating narratives in written, spoken or multimodal/digital format for more than one specified audience, requiring adaptation of narrative elements and language features
  • planning and creating texts that entertain, inform, inspire and/or emotionally engage familiar and less-familiar audiences

  VCELT356 | Curriculum content | English | Level 6 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT419

  Create literary texts that draw upon text structures and language features of other texts for particular purposes and effects

  Elaborations

  • creating literary interpretations of short stories based on understanding and analysis of their context, narrative structure (including the twist at the end), layers of meaning, themes, point of view and style
  • combining visual and digital elements to create layers of meaning for serious and humorous purposes

  VCELT419 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT408

  Identify and evaluate devices that create tone in literary texts, including humour, wordplay, innuendo and parody

  Elaborations

  • understanding that tone (serious, bitter, sincere, amused) indicates attitude to the subject and to readers/listeners, who can identify or judge tone through past experience and language clues in the text

  VCELT408 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT425

  Share, reflect on, clarify and evaluate opinions and arguments about aspects of literary texts

  Elaborations

  • discussing the relative merits of literary texts and comparing and evaluating personal viewpoints on texts

  VCELT425 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT448

  Create literary texts, including hybrid texts, that innovate on aspects of other texts, including through the use of parody, allusion and appropriation

  Elaborations

  • creating a contemporary parody of an historical text to highlight changes in societal attitudes

  VCELT448 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT435

  Interpret and compare how representations of people and culture in literary texts are drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts

  Elaborations

  • exploring and reflecting on representations of values (for example love, freedom, integrity) in literature drawn from cultures and times different from their own
  • exploring and reflecting on personal understanding of the world and human experience, interpreted in literature drawn from cultures and times different from the students’ own
  • reviewing historical fiction or nonfiction written by and about the peoples of Asia
  • analysing literary texts created by and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (including documentaries, picture books, print texts and other multimodal texts) and also texts including film produced by and about peoples of Asian background, and considering the different ways these texts represent people, places, things and issues

  VCELT435 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT438

  Analyse texts from familiar and unfamiliar contexts, and discuss and evaluate their content and the appeal of an individual author’s literary style

  Elaborations

  • comparing texts created by the same author to determine literary style, assessing its appeal and presenting this comparison to others
  • examining how different authors make use of devices like myth, icons and imagery and evaluating the effect of these choices on audiences

  VCELT438 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT436

  Present an argument about a literary text based on initial impressions and subsequent analysis of the whole text

  Elaborations

  • interrogating and making judgments about a text, comparing others’ ideas against the student’s own and reaching an independent decision or shared consensus about the interpretations and ideas expressed

  VCELT436 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT454

  Reflect on, discuss and explore notions of literary value and how and why such notions vary according to context

  Elaborations

  • reflecting on and discussing responses to literature including plot events, setting details, characterisation, themes, structure and language devices used to achieve particular effects, and collaboratively formulating a list of factors that characterise merit
  • discussing, debating and evaluating the cinematic qualities and success of a film or new versions of a film
  • exploring the ways that context has shaped the representation of particular cultures, such as through the analysis of differing viewpoints in texts about different cultures or by comparing the ways texts from different periods reveal differences in viewpoints (for example differences in the portrayal of migrants in traditional and more contemporary literature)

  VCELT454 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT439

  Analyse text structures and language features of literary texts, and make relevant comparisons with other texts

  Elaborations

  • evaluating the effect on readers of text structures and language features of a literary text and comparing these with other texts
  • by comparing texts, writing or speaking about how well the author constructed the opening and closing sections of the text and used ‘hooks’ to keep the reader/viewer/listener engaged and reading on/watching/listening to the end

  VCELT439 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT476

  Create literary texts that reflect an emerging sense of personal style and evaluate the effectiveness of these texts

  Elaborations

  • creating texts which draw on own experience of other texts and which have a personal aesthetic appeal
  • reflect on the authors who have influenced own aesthetic style and evaluate their impact

  VCELT476 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Literature