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Curriculum content descriptions

Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning (ACELA1453)

Elaborations
  • talking about what is ‘real’ and what is imagined in texts, for example ‘This is the section about platypuses in the book about mammals’
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

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