Literacy

In this subject, students extend and apply their literacy capability by, for example:

• communicating with a range of people in a variety of contexts
• asking questions, expressing opinions, and taking different perspectives into account
• using language with increasing awareness, clarity, accuracy, and suitability for a range of audiences, contexts, and purposes
• accessing, analysing, and selecting appropriate primary and secondary sources
• engaging with, and reflecting on, the ways in which texts are created for specific purposes and audiences
• composing a range of texts — written, oral, visual, and multimodal
• reading, viewing, writing, listening, and speaking, using a range of technologies
• developing an understanding that different text types (e.g. website, speech, newspaper article, film, painting, data set, report, set of instructions, or interview) have their own distinctive stylistic features
• acquiring an understanding of the relationships between literacy, language, and culture
• identifying the specific literacy skills required for the chosen community application activity.