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Curriculum content descriptions

Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways (ACELT1618)

Elaborations
  • creating narratives in written, spoken or multimodal/digital format for more than one specified audience, requiring adaptation of narrative elements and language features
  • planning and creating texts that entertain, inform, inspire and/or emotionally engage familiar and less-familiar audiences
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Creating texts,  Literary styles

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