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Level 10

Reading and Viewing Writing Speaking and Listening

Language Language Language

Language for interaction Text structure and organisation Language variation and change

Understand that people’s Understand how paragraphs and Understand that Standard Australian
evaluations of texts are influenced images can be arranged for different English in its spoken and written
by their value systems, the context purposes, audiences, perspectives forms has a history of evolution and
and the purpose and mode of and stylistic effects (VCELA470) change and continues to evolve
communication (VCELA457) (VCELA482)

Text structure and organisation Understand conventions for citing Language for interaction
others, and how to reference these
Compare the purposes, text in different ways (VCELA471) Understand how language use can
structures and language features of have inclusive and exclusive social
traditional and contemporary texts in effects, and can empower or
different media (VCELA458) disempower people (VCELA483)

Expressing and developing ideas Expressing and developing ideas

Evaluate the impact on audiences of Analyse and evaluate the

different choices in the effectiveness of a wide range of
representation of still and moving sentence and clause structures as
images (VCELA459) authors design and craft texts
(VCELA472)

Analyse how higher order concepts

are developed in complex texts
through language features including
nominalisation, clause combinations,
technicality and abstraction
(VCELA473)

Refine vocabulary choices to

discriminate between shades of
meaning, with deliberate attention to
the effect on audiences (VCELA474)

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Phonics and word knowledge

Understand how to use knowledge

of the spelling system to spell
unusual and technical words
accurately (VCELA475)

Literature Literature Literature

Literature and context Creating literature Responding to literature

Compare and evaluate a range of Create literary texts that reflect an Reflect on, extend, endorse or refute
representations of individuals and emerging sense of personal style others’ interpretations of and
groups in different historical, social and evaluate the effectiveness of responses to literature (VCELT484)
and cultural contexts (VCELT460) these texts (VCELT476)

Responding to literature Create literary texts with a sustained

‘voice’, selecting and adapting
Analyse and explain how text appropriate text structures, literary
structures, language features and devices, language, auditory and
visual features of texts and the visual structures and features for a
context in which texts are specific purpose and intended
experienced may influence audience audience (VCELT477)
response (VCELT461)

Evaluate the social, moral and Create imaginative texts that make
ethical positions represented in texts relevant thematic and intertextual
(VCELT462) connections with other texts
(VCELT478)

Examining literature

Identify, explain and discuss how

narrative viewpoint, structure,
characterisation and devices
including analogy and satire shape
different interpretations and
responses to a text (VCELT463)

Analyse and evaluate text structures

and language features of literary
texts and make relevant thematic
and intertextual connections with
other texts (VCELT464)

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Compare and evaluate how ‘voice’

as a literary device can be used in a
range of different types of texts such
as poetry to evoke particular
emotional responses (VCELT465)

Literacy Literacy Literacy

Texts in context Creating texts Interacting with others

Analyse and evaluate how people,
cultures, places, events, objects and
concepts are represented in texts,
including media texts, through
language, structural and/or visual
choices (VCELY466)
Create sustained texts, including
texts that combine specific digital or
media content, for imaginative,
informative, or persuasive purposes
that reflect upon challenging and
complex issues (VCELY479)
Identify and explore the purposes
and effects of different text
structures and language features of
spoken texts, and use this
knowledge to create purposeful texts
that inform, persuade and engage
audiences, using organisation
patterns, voice and language
conventions to present a coherent
point of view on a subject
(VCELY485)

Interpreting, analysing, evaluating Review, edit and refine own and Plan, rehearse and deliver
others’ texts for control of content, presentations, selecting and
Identify and analyse implicit or organisation, sentence structure, sequencing appropriate content and
explicit values, beliefs and vocabulary, and/or visual features to multimodal elements to influence a
assumptions in texts and how these achieve particular purposes and course of action, speaking clearly
are influenced by purposes and effects (VCELY480) and using logic, imagery and
likely audiences (VCELY467) rhetorical devices in order to engage
audiences (VCELY486)

Choose a reading technique and Use a range of software, including

reading path appropriate for the type word processing programs,
of text, to retrieve and connect ideas confidently, flexibly and imaginatively
within and between texts to create, edit and publish texts,
(VCELY468) considering the identified purpose
and the characteristics of the user
(VCELY481)

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Use comprehension strategies to

compare and contrast information
within and between texts, identifying
and analysing embedded
perspectives, and evaluating
supporting evidence (VCELY469)

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