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• 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

• VCELT205

  Discuss how authors create characters using language and images

  Elaborations

  • identifying similarities between texts from different cultural traditions, for example representations of dragons in traditional European and Asian texts, and how spiritual beings are represented in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories
  • identifying some features of characters and how particular words and images convey qualities of their nature, for example some characters are portrayed as shy, others adventurous
  • discussing the characters of fictional animals and how they relate to those of humans

  VCELT205 | Curriculum content | English | Level 1 | Speaking and Listening | 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

• 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

• VCELT327

  Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors

  Elaborations

  • drawing upon fiction elements in a range of model texts - for example main idea, characterisation, setting (time and place), narrative point of view; and devices, for example figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification), as well as non-verbal conventions in digital and screen texts - in order to experiment with new, creative ways of communicating ideas, experiences and stories in literary texts

  VCELT327 | Curriculum content | English | Level 5 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT355

  Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts

  Elaborations

  • selecting and using sensory language to convey a vivid picture of places, feelings and events in a semi-structured verse form

  VCELT355 | Curriculum content | English | Level 6 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT386

  Create literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in other texts

  Elaborations

  • using aspects of texts in imaginative recreations such as re-situating a character from a text in a new situation
  • imagining a character’s life events (for example misadventures organised retrospectively to be presented as a series of flashbacks in scripted monologue supported by single images), making a sequel or prequel or rewriting an ending
  • creating chapters for an autobiography, short story or diary

  VCELT386 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT385

  Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts

  Elaborations

  • experimenting with different narrative structures such as the epistolary form, flashback, multiple perspectives
  • transforming familiar print narratives into short video or film narratives, drawing on knowledge of the type of text and possible adaptations necessary to a new mode
  • drawing on literature and life experiences to create a poem, for example ballad, series of haiku

  VCELT385 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT478

  Create imaginative texts that make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts

  Elaborations

  • creating texts that refer to themes or make particular connections to texts, for example writing crime fiction or romance short stories

  VCELT478 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Literature

• VCELY125

  Use symbols, letters and words to create a simple statement about an idea or event

  Elaborations

  • creating a drawing and simple statement (of own ‘writing’) about an event
  • participating in the construction of class texts by selecting images and suggesting simple sentences to accompany the image

  VCELY125 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Writing | Literacy

• VCELY090

  Create simple texts by labelling images from an event with own ‘writing’

  Elaborations

  • assisting in the collection of relevant images for a class photo story
  • attempting to copy letters and simple words from a modelled example
  • participating in the construction of class texts by selecting images, and adding vocalisation or drawings

  VCELY090 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Literacy

• English: Level 9 achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen for ways texts position an audience. They understand how to use a variety of language features to create different levels of meaning. They understand how interpretations can vary by comparing their responses to texts to the responses of others. In creating texts, students demonstrate...

  Level description | English | Level 9 | Speaking and Listening

• English: Level 9 achievement standards - Writing

  Students understand how to use a variety of language features to create different levels of meaning. They understand how interpretations can vary by comparing their responses to texts to the responses of others. In creating texts students demonstrate how manipulating language features and images...

  Level description | English | Level 9 | Writing

• VCELA392

  Understand how accents, styles of speech and idioms express and create personal and social identities

  Elaborations

  • building a database of local idioms and their meanings, accents and styles of speech for different contexts, exploring the possibilities of these choices in drama and role play, and discussing their connection with personal and social identities
  • developing dialogues authentic to characters in comics, cartoons and animations

  VCELA392 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA414

  Understand how coherence is created in complex texts through devices like lexical cohesion, ellipsis, grammatical theme and text connectives

  Elaborations

  • interpreting complex sentence structures through reading aloud literary texts such as sonnets or plays
  • using cohesive devices when writing complex texts

  VCELA414 | Curriculum content | English | Level 8 | Writing | Language

• VCELT019

  Encounter literature being created for various reasons and purposes and react to the retelling of a literary text

  Elaborations

  • experiencing literature being created about them and their context, for example social stories
  • reacting to digital and interactive retelling of various text
  • responding to multimodal text based on personally experienced events

  VCELT019 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Writing | Literature

• VCELT240

  Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created

  Elaborations

  • exploring iconography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures
  • recognising recurring characters, settings and themes in Dreaming stories experienced through texts, films and online sources
  • discussing moral and teaching stories from varied cultures, identifying and comparing their central messages

  VCELT240 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Literature

• VCELT148

  Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences

  Elaborations

  • recognising that there are storytellers in all cultures
  • viewing stories by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytellers from online sources
  • comparing experiences depicted in stories with students’ own
  • engaging with texts that reflect the social and cultural groups to which students belong

  VCELT148 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | 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

• 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