Knowledge and Understanding· The purpose of speaking and listening includes examining issues, evaluating opinions, convincing others, and managing relationships and transactions.
· Readers and viewers draw on their prior knowledge, knowledge of language elements, points of view, beliefs and cultural understandings when engaging with a text · Relationships between ideas in texts are signaled by connectives to sequence and contrast ideas, show cause and effect, and clarify or add information · Audiences can be positioned to view characters and ideas in particular ways and these views can be questioned. · Themes are explored through the interplay of setting, plot and character, and the actions, speech, thoughts and feelings of characters. · Auditory, spoken, visual and nonverbal elements, including the use of sound fades, dissolves, cuts, hyperlinks, camera angles and shot types, can be combined to position an audience · Speakers and listeners use a number of strategies to make meaning, including identifying purpose, activating prior knowledge, responding, questioning, identifying main ideas, monitoring, summarizing and reflecting. Literary texts entertain, evoke emotion, create suspense, parody and develop themes. | Ways of working· Identify main ideas and the sequence of events, make inferences and draw conclusions based on their understanding of the reliability of ideas and information across texts
· Demonstrate and analyze the relationship between audience, subject matter, purpose and text type · Reflect on and analyze how language choices position readers/viewers/listeners in particular ways for different purposes and can exclude information · Reflect on learning, apply new understandings and justify future applications. · construct literary texts by planning and developing subject matter, and manipulating languageelements to present particular points of view Vocabulary is chosen to establish roles and relationships with an audience, including thedemonstration of personal authority and credibility |