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Curriculum content descriptions

Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts (ACELA1786)

Elaborations
  • talking about how a ‘different’ story is told if we read only the words, or only the pictures; and the story that words and pictures make when combined
  • exploring how the combination of print and images in texts creates meaning
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Word meanings,  Illustration,  Writing systems

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