Year 1 English Content Descriptions - Literature
Literature and contexts
Discuss how language and images are used to create characters, settings and events in literature by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, wide‑ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
WA1ELICO1
For example:
- generating vocabulary to describe images from picture books or movies
- listening to, viewing and reading a wide range of literary texts and identifying events that make them exciting, such as problems or unexpected happenings
- describing interpretations of literary texts, such as images, characters, settings and events
Engaging with and responding to literature
Discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with children’s own experiences
WA1ELIEN1
For example:
- listening to a text, such as a poem about families, and making connections to own experiences
Examining literature
Discuss plot, character and setting in stories
WA1ELIEX1
For example:
- discussing personal thoughts about favourite characters, whether a setting is real or imagined, or how the problem in a story was resolved
Listen to, discuss and perform literary texts, including stories, poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns, including alliteration and rhyme
WA1ELIEX2
Creating literature
Retell or adapt a story using plot and characters, language features, including vocabulary, and structure of a familiar text through spoken texts, role-play, writing, drawing or digital tools
WA1ELICR1
For example:
- participating in yarning circles that tell stories based on familiar texts
- adapting a story to perform as a play