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English / Year 2 / Language / Expressing and developing ideas

Curriculum content descriptions

Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words (ACELA1469)

Elaborations
  • comparing two versions of the same story, for example ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, identifying how a character’s actions and reactions are depicted differently by different illustrators
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
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