Literature

Literature and contexts

Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting on experiences that are similar or different to their own by engaging with texts by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators

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For example:

  • listening to a literary text, such as a poem set in the Australian bush, and talking about connections to their own experiences
  • re-enacting scenarios of a favourite story, poem or experience in a role-play environment
Engaging with and responding to literature

Respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their settings, events and characters

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For example:

  • sharing thoughts and ideas about a story, such as orally discussing favourite storybook characters or by drawing pictures of a favourite event
Examining literature

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

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For example:

  • identifying and discussing features common to specific literary texts, such as real and imaginary characters who may be found in stories about the Australian bush, events that typically occur in fiction stories, such as fairytales, or typical beginnings and endings in fables or cultural stories

Explore and replicate the rhythms and sound patterns of literary texts, such as stories, poems, chants, rhymes and songs

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Creating literature

Retell and adapt literary texts through play and performance

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For example:

  • retelling or performing a story, changing the characters, setting or order of events
  • participating in role-play to retell and adapt favourite texts
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