ACELA1462

Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things

Elaborations

• exploring how language is used to express feelings including learning vocabulary to express a gradation of feeling, for example ‘happy’, ‘joyful’, ‘pleased’, ‘contented’ (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)
• exploring in stories, everyday and media texts moral and social dilemmas; such as right and wrong, fairness/unfairness, inclusion and exclusion; learning to use language to describe actions and consider consequences (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding)
• exploring how language is used to construct characters and settings in narratives, including choice of nouns such as ‘girl’, ‘princess’ or ‘orphan’, and choice of adjectives such as ‘gentle’, ‘timid’ or ‘frightened’ (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)

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