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English / Year 2 / Literacy / Creating texts

Curriculum content descriptions

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1671)

Elaborations
  • learning how to plan spoken and written communications so that listeners and readers might follow the sequence of ideas or events
  • sequencing content according to text structure
  • using appropriate simple and compound sentence to express and combine ideas
  • using vocabulary, including technical vocabulary, appropriate to text type and purpose
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

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