Shoal Bay Public School
Thinking imaginatively and creatively (and interpretively and critically)Kindergarten / Stage 1 / Stage 2 / Stage 3
ENe-10C thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts / EN1-10C thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts / EN2-10C thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts / EN3-7C thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
Students engage personally with texts
ü respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators (ACELT1577)
ü share picture books and digital stories for enjoyment and pleasure / ü engage in wide reading of self-selected and teacher-selected texts, including digital texts, for enjoyment, and share responses
ü recognise the way that different texts create different personal responses
ü respond to a wide range of texts through discussing, writing and representing / ü share responses to a range of texts and identify features which increase reader enjoyment
ü respond to texts by identifying and discussing aspects of texts that relate to their own experience / ü recognise and explain creative language features in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that contribute to engagement and meaning
ü interpret events, situations and characters in texts
ü explain own preferences for a particular interpretation of a text, referring to text details and own knowledge and experience
ü think critically about aspects of texts such as ideas and events
ü think imaginatively when engaging with texts, using prediction, for example, to imagine what happens to characters after the text
Students develop and apply contextual knowledge
ü understand that imaginative texts can be composed for a range of audiences and purposes, using a range of media
ü engage with and appreciate the imaginative use of language through storytelling / ü recognise and begin to understand how composers use creative features to engage their audience
ü identify and compare the imaginative language used by composers / ü discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers' interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension (ACELT1605)
ü identify and analyse the different organisational patterns and features to engage their audience / ü identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author's individual style (ACELT1616)
ü compare how composers and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing to hold readers' interest
ü explore and discuss simple appropriation of texts
Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features
ü recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts, for example beginnings and endings of traditional texts and rhyme in poetry (ACELT1785)
ü discuss creative language features in imaginative texts that can enhance enjoyment, eg illustrations, repetition / ü identify that different texts have different organisational patterns and features for a variety of audiences
ü identify creative language features in imaginative texts that enhance enjoyment, eg illustrations, repetition / ü identify creative language features in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that contribute to engagement
ü identify and discuss how vocabulary establishes setting and atmosphere / ü understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects (ACELA1518)
ü identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse (ACELT1617)
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Respond to and compose texts
ü use imagination to represent aspects of an experience using written text, drawings and other visual media
ü respond to a range of imaginative and creative texts, including visual media
ü retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images (ACELT1580)
ü share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (ACELT1783)
ü discuss intended personal writing topics to form the basis for composing
ü communicate the purposes of drawings and other visual media / ü recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication (ACELT1586)
ü predict and discuss ideas drawn from picture books and digital stories
ü use creative and imaginative features in role-play and drama
ü recognise similarities between texts from different cultural traditions, eg representations of dragons in traditional European and Asian texts
ü recognise the place of ancestral beings in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Dreaming stories
ü jointly adapt a well-known text for a different audience and purpose
ü express a range of feelings in response to a text / ü create literary texts that explore students' own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607)
ü use visual representations, including those digitally produced, to represent ideas, experience and information for different purposes and audiences
ü respond to a range of texts, eg through role-play or drama, for pleasure and enjoyment, and express thoughtful conclusions about those texts
ü justify interpretations of a text, including responses to characters, information and ideas, eg 'The main character is selfish because …'
ü make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships (ACELT1594, ACELT1602) / ü create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways (ACELT1612, ACELT1618)
ü adapt aspects of print or media texts to create new texts by thinking creatively and imaginatively about character, setting, narrative voice, dialogue and events
ü analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots (ACELT1614)
ü experiment with others' imaginative texts by changing aspects such as place, characters, rhythm, mood, sound effects and dialogue
ü interpret a range of texts, eg through role-play or drama, for pleasure and enjoyment, and express an analytical conclusion about those texts
Thinking imaginatively and creatively (and interpretively and critically)
Yearly Overview
Outcome
Engaging with texts / Develop and apply contextual knowledge / Language forms and features / Respond to and compose texts / Assessment
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