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Use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sources (ACELY1723)

Elaborations
  • identifying cause and effect in explanations and how these are used to convince an audience of a course of action
  • inferring the tone and emotional intent of a character in dialogue in a narrative
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
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Reading comprehension

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