Elaborations

• classifying a range of texts such as stories, greeting cards, recipes, advertisements and posters according to their purpose(s), for example, to entertain, to describe, to inform or to persuade, and recognising language features typically associated with particular texts, for example, the use of imperatives in recipes, time markers in stories, or recycling symbols on packaging
• recognising how different textual elements such as titles or headings, layout, images and script combine to make meaning in a text such as an invitation, web page or picture book
• comparing features of simple spoken and written texts in Vietnamese, such as a verbal greeting or a handwritten postcard, and comparing these with similar texts in English, noting, for example, the format used to write the date and address and different ways of addressing people