Shoal Bay Public School Thinking imaginatively and creatively (and interpretively and critically)

Kindergarten
ENe-10C thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts

Stage 1
EN1-10C thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts

Stage 2
EN2-10C thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts

Stage 3
EN3-7C thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts recognise and explain creative language features in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that contribute to engagement and meaning interpret events, situations and characters in texts explain own preferences for a particular interpretation of a text, referring to text details and own knowledge and experience think critically about aspects of texts such as ideas and events think imaginatively when engaging with texts, using prediction, for example, to imagine what happens to characters after the text

Students engage personally with texts respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators (ACELT1577) share picture books and digital stories for enjoyment and pleasure engage in wide reading of self-selected and teacher-selected texts, including digital texts, for enjoyment, and share responses recognise the way that different texts create different personal responses respond to a wide range of texts through discussing, writing and representing share responses to a range of texts and identify features which increase reader enjoyment respond to texts by identifying and discussing aspects of texts that relate to their own experience

understand that imaginative texts can be composed for a range of audiences and purposes, using a range of media engage with and appreciate the imaginative use of language through storytelling

Students develop and apply contextual knowledge recognise and begin to understand how discuss how authors and illustrators composers use creative features to engage make stories exciting, moving and absorbing their audience and hold readers' interest by using various identify and compare the imaginative techniques, for example character language used by composers development and plot tension (ACELT1605) identify and analyse the different organisational patterns and features to engage their audience

identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author's individual style (ACELT1616) compare how composers and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing to hold readers' interest explore and discuss simple appropriation of texts

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Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts, for example beginnings and endings of traditional texts and rhyme in poetry (ACELT1785) discuss creative language features in imaginative texts that can enhance enjoyment, eg illustrations, repetition identify that different texts have different organisational patterns and features for a variety of audiences identify creative language features in imaginative texts that enhance enjoyment, eg illustrations, repetition identify creative language features in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that contribute to engagement identify and discuss how vocabulary establishes setting and atmosphere understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects (ACELA1518) identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse (ACELT1617)

Respond to and compose texts recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, create literary texts that explore students' writing, performance and digital forms of own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607) communication (ACELT1586) use visual representations, including those predict and discuss ideas drawn from picture digitally produced, to represent ideas, books and digital stories experience and information for different use creative and imaginative features in rolepurposes and audiences play and drama respond to a range of texts, eg through rolerecognise similarities between texts from play or drama, for pleasure and enjoyment, different cultural traditions, eg and express thoughtful conclusions about representations of dragons in traditional those texts European and Asian texts justify interpretations of a text, including recognise the place of ancestral beings in responses to characters, information and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ideas, eg 'The main character is selfish Dreaming stories because ' jointly adapt a well-known text for a different make connections between the ways audience and purpose different authors may represent similar express a range of feelings in response to a storylines, ideas and relationships text (ACELT1594, ACELT1602)

use imagination to represent aspects of an experience using written text, drawings and other visual media respond to a range of imaginative and creative texts, including visual media retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images (ACELT1580) share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts (ACELT1783) discuss intended personal writing topics to form the basis for composing communicate the purposes of drawings and other visual media

create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways (ACELT1612, ACELT1618) adapt aspects of print or media texts to create new texts by thinking creatively and imaginatively about character, setting, narrative voice, dialogue and events analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots (ACELT1614) experiment with others' imaginative texts by changing aspects such as place, characters, rhythm, mood, sound effects and dialogue interpret a range of texts, eg through roleplay or drama, for pleasure and enjoyment, and express an analytical conclusion about those texts

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Thinking imaginatively and creatively (and interpretively and critically) Yearly Overview
Outcome

Engaging with texts

Term 1

Develop and apply contextual knowledge

Language forms and features

Respond to and compose texts

Assessment

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4