English / Foundation / Literature / Responding to literature

Curriculum content descriptions

Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (ACELT1783)

Elaborations
  • talking about stories and authors, choosing favourites, discussing how students feel about what happens in stories
  • using art forms and beginning forms of writing to express personal responses to literature and film experiences
  • talking about people, events and ideas in texts, enabling students to connect them to their own experiences and to express their own opinions about what is depicted
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
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