ACELY1694
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features
Elaborations
- using research from print and digital resources to gather ideas, integrating information from a range of sources; selecting text structure and planning how to group ideas into paragraphs to sequence content, and choosing vocabulary to suit topic and communication purpose (Skills: Literacy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- using appropriate simple, compound and complex sentences to express and combine ideas (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- using grammatical features including different types of verb groups/phrases, noun groups/phrases, adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases for effective descriptions as related to purpose and context (for example, development of a character’s actions or a description in a report) (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
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