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English / Year 4 / Literacy / Texts in context

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Identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times and compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary texts (ACELY1686)

Elaborations
  • viewing documentaries and news footage from different periods, comparing the style of presentation, including costumes and iconography with contemporary texts on similar topics and tracking changing views on issues, for example war, race, gender
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
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