Stage Two
Outcomes
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Objective A
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Speaking and Listening 1
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EN2-1A
Communicates in a range of informal and formal contexts by adopting a range of roles in group, classroom, school and community contexts
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EN2-1A
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Writing and Representing 1
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EN2-2A
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
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Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns (ACELT1606)
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Experiment with visual, multimodal and digital processes to represent ideas encountered in texts
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Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation (ACELY1683)
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Reread and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure (ACELY1695)
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Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns (ACELT1606)
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EN2-2A
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Reading and Viewing 1
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EN2-4A
Uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on increasingly challenging topics in different media and technologies
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Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters (ACELA1480)
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Skim a text for overall message and scan for particular information, eg headings, key words
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Use graphological, phonological, syntactic and semantic strategies to respond to texts, eg knowledge of homophones, contractions, syllables, word families and common prefixes
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Identify syllables in multisyllabic words in order to support decoding of longer words in context to make meaning
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Recognise high frequency sight words (ACELA1486)
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Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1680, ACELY1692)
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Use strategies to confirm predictions about author intent in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
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Summarise a paragraph and indicate the main idea, key points or key arguments in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
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Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters (ACELA1480)
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EN2-4A
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Spelling
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EN2-5A
Uses a range of strategies, including knowledge of letter-sound correspondences and common letter patterns, to spell familiar and some unfamiliar words
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Understand how to use strategies for spelling words, including spelling rules, knowledge of morphemic word families, spelling generalisations, and letter combinations including double letters (ACELA1485, ACELA1779)
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Recognise homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling (ACELA1780)
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Understand how knowledge of word origins supports spelling
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Use a variety of spelling strategies to spell high-frequency words correctly when composing imaginative and other texts
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Use morphemic, visual, syntactic, semantic and phonological knowledge when attempting to spell unknown words
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Use knowledge of alphabetical order to locate information in texts, eg dictionaries, glossaries
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Identify spelling errors in own writing and unknown texts and provide correct spelling
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Understand how to use strategies for spelling words, including spelling rules, knowledge of morphemic word families, spelling generalisations, and letter combinations including double letters (ACELA1485, ACELA1779)
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EN2-5A
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Speaking and Listening 1
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Objective B
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Writing and Representing 2
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EN2-7B
Identifies and uses language forms and features in their own writing appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts
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EN2-7B
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Reading and Viewing 2
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EN2-8B
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
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Interpret how imaginative, informative and persuasive texts vary in purpose, structure and topic
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Identify organisational patterns and language features of print and visual texts appropriate to a range of purposes
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Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences) (ACELA1478)
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Recognise the use of figurative language in texts, eg similes, metaphors, idioms and personification, and discuss their effects
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Recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct) speech (ACELA1492)
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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 (ACELT1600)
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Identify and interpret the different forms of visual information, including maps, tables, charts, diagrams, animations and images
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Interpret how imaginative, informative and persuasive texts vary in purpose, structure and topic
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EN2-8B
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Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary
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EN2-9B
Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
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Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts (ACELA1479)
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Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity (ACELA1495)
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Identify and use grammatical features, eg pronouns, conjunctions and connectives, to accurately link ideas and information
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Understand that verbs represent different processes (doing, thinking, saying, and relating) and that these processes are anchored in time through tense (ACELA1482)
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Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text (ACELA1494)
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Use apostrophes for contractions
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Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs (ACELA1484)
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Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts (ACELA1479)
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EN2-9B
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Writing and Representing 2
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Objective C
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Thinking Imaginatively, Creatively and Interpretively
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EN2-10C
Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
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EN2-10C
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Thinking Imaginatively, Creatively and Interpretively
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Objective D
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Expressing Themselves
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EN2-11D
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
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EN2-11D
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Expressing Themselves