English / Foundation / Language / Text structure and organisation

Curriculum content descriptions

understand that texts can take many forms such as signs, books and digital texts (AC9EFLA03)

Elaborations
  • comparing images in informative and imaginative texts, and identifying similarities and differences
  • comparing different ways information might be presented; for example, on a sign or in a set of instructions
  • identifying different forms of texts in school, home and community settings; for example, crossing signs, hand washing signs, directions and product labels
  • understanding that many First Nations Australians’ stories are oral narrations and cultural accounts, and may be represented as or with images
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Text purpose,  Text structure,  Texts

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