Area of Study Description
In this area of study, students apply reading and viewing strategies to critically engage with a text, considering its dynamics and complexities and reflecting on the motivations of its characters. They analyse the ways authors construct meaning through vocabulary, text structures, language features and conventions, and the presentation of ideas. They are provided with opportunities to understand and explore the historical context, and the social and cultural values of a text, and recognize how these elements influence the way a text is read or viewed, is understood by different audiences, and positions its readers in different ways.
Sustained analytical writing about a text provides students with opportunities to further develop skills to engage with and challenge ideas, to refine their application of appropriate metalanguage, to integrate evidence from a text to support key points, and to improve their use of organisational structures such as formal essays. Through participation in discussion, students test their thinking, clarify ideas and form views about a text that can be further developed in their writing.
On completion of this unit the student should be able to analyse ideas, concerns and values presented in a text, informed by the vocabulary, text structures and language features and how they make meaning.
To achieve the outcome the student will draw on knowledge and related skills outlined in Area of
Study 1.
Key Knowledge
reading and viewing strategies to draw out meanings in a text the dynamics of a text including characters’ motivations, the tensions in relationships, the function of settings, the complexities of plot and the role of point of view ideas, concerns and conflicts in a text vocabulary, text structures and language features in a text used to construct meaning the historical context, and the social and cultural values in a text the features of analytical writing in response to a text, including the use of appropriate metalanguage the conventions of small group and whole class discussion, including ways of developing constructive interactions and building on ideas of others in discussion comprehension strategies to develop fluent listening the conventions of discussion and debate the conventions of syntax, punctuation, and spelling of Standard Australian English. Key Skills
apply reading and viewing strategies to a text read and engage with a text for meaning engage in discussions to clarify, test and extend views about a text employ appropriate metalanguage the dynamics of a text including characters’ motivations, the tensions in relationships, the function of settings, the complexities of plot and the role of point of view the ideas, concerns and conflicts in a text the historical context, and the social and cultural values in a text explore and analyze the impact of the vocabulary, text structures and language features on a text and how these elements shape meaning plan, construct and edit analytical writing that: responds explicitly to set topics develops and sustains ideas explores and refines the organizational structures of analytical writing demonstrates knowledge of a text uses key evidence from a text to support ideas and analysis demonstrates understanding of purpose, audience and context listen to a spoken text relevant to the wider study of a text apply appropriate listening comprehension strategies to support understanding of a set text through engagement with a spoken, audio or audio visual source, such as: using prominent textual cues, such as stressed words and discourse markers drawing from existing knowledge structures to frame, infer and create meaning from spoken texts to develop understanding of the historical context, and the social and cultural values in a text use the appropriate conventions of syntax, punctuation and spelling of Standard Australian English. Areas I am weak at:
Active Recall
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ASO1: Reading and responding to texts