English / Year 7 / Literacy / Creating texts

Curriculum content descriptions

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to confidently create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts (ACELY1728)

Elaborations
  • understanding conventions associated with particular kinds of software and using them appropriately, for example synthesising information and ideas in dot points and sequencing information in presentations or timing scenes in animation
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Word processing,  Editing

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