Stage Four
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Objective A
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Outcome 1
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EN4-1A
Responds to and composes texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure
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Interpret the stated and implied meanings in spoken texts, and use evidence to support or challenge different perspectives (ACELY1730)
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Apply increasing knowledge of vocabulary, text structures and language features to understand the content of texts (ACELY1733)
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Recognise that vocabulary choices contribute to the specificity, abstraction and style of texts (ACELA1547)
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Identify and evaluate devices that create tone, for example humour, wordplay, innuendo and parody in poetry, humorous prose, drama or visual texts (ACELT1630)
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Understand, interpret and discuss how language is compressed to produce a dramatic effect in film or drama, and to create layers of meaning in poetry, for example haiku, tankas, couplets, free verse and verse novels (ACELT1623)
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Interpret the stated and implied meanings in spoken texts, and use evidence to support or challenge different perspectives (ACELY1730)
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EN4-1A
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Outcome 2
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EN4-2A
Effectively uses a widening range of processes, skills, strategies and knowledge for responding to and composing texts in different media and technologies
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Consider and apply a range of strategies to improve their texts, including editing by rereading and peer editing, checking accuracy of paragraphing, grammar, spelling and punctuation, and considering relevance for purpose, audience and context
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Edit for meaning by removing repetition, refining ideas, reordering sentences and adding or substituting words for impact (ACELY1726)
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Use a range of effective strategies for organising information, ideas and arguments, eg clustering, listing, compare and contrast, semantic chains, graphic and diagram outlines, and mind maps WE
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Consider and apply a range of strategies to improve their texts, including editing by rereading and peer editing, checking accuracy of paragraphing, grammar, spelling and punctuation, and considering relevance for purpose, audience and context
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EN4-2A
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Outcome 1
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Objective B
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Outcome 3
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EN4-3B
Uses and describes language forms, features and structures of texts appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts
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Engage with the language and structures of texts in meaningful, contextualised and authentic ways
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Identify, discuss and reflect on the ideas and information in a range of texts
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Understand how to apply learned knowledge consistently in order to spell accurately and to learn new words including nominalisations (ACELA1549)
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Understand how rhetorical devices are used to persuade and how different layers of meaning are developed through the use of metaphor, irony and parody (ACELA1542)
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Understand the ways etymology can clarify choice of vocabulary
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Interpret and analyse language choices, including sentence patterns, dialogue, imagery and other language features, in short stories, literary essays and plays (ACELT1767)
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Understand how modality is achieved through discriminating choices in modal verbs, adverbs, adjectives and nouns (ACELA1536)
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Understand how coherence is created in complex texts through devices like lexical cohesion, ellipsis, grammatical theme and text connectives (ACELA1809)
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Understand the use of punctuation conventions, including colons, semicolons, dashes and brackets in formal and informal texts (ACELA1532, ACELA1544)
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Understand how to use spelling rules and word origins, for example Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes, spelling patterns and generalisations to learn new words and how to spell them (ACELA1539)
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Engage with the language and structures of texts in meaningful, contextualised and authentic ways
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EN4-3B
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Outcome 3
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