Foundation Year · English · Literature

AC9EFLE03

recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Literature in Foundation Year.

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9EFLE03 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Foundation Year.

1. Year 1AC9E1LE01discuss how language and images are used to create characters, settings and events in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
2. Year 1AC9E1LE02discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences
3. Year 1AC9E1LE03discuss plot, character and setting, which are features of stories
4. Year 1AC9E1LE04listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
5. Year 1AC9E1LE05orally retell or adapt a familiar story using plot and characters, language features including vocabulary, and structure of a familiar text, through role-play, writing, drawing or digital tools