Our Goals

This unit is devoted to reading and interpreting a range of Fiction and Non-Fiction short texts with varied cultural and gender perspectives. The texts selected are all concerned with the perspectives and insights gained from the process of change to help students consider their transition from primary to secondary schooling. The texts explore personal qualities such as risk-taking, resilience, curiosity, receptivity, sensitivity and enthusiasm. They also read texts about experiences such as hesitations and setbacks, false starts and barriers, and texts which represent the rewards of new starts, such as experience, empathy, patience, joy, humility, insight, enlightenment, and relationships. 

Through studying a suite of texts, students will read for meaning, and read texts selected to challenge thinking. They will also read texts that present a range of perspectives and experiences, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Students will explore how language and text are acts of representation that range from objective to subjective and may offer layers of literal or implied meanings.

Students will be guided through the reading of:

• Poetry

• Prose Text

• Non-Fiction Text

Students will learn to use appropriate metalanguage to describe how meaning is constructed through linguistic and stylistic elements in texts and analyse how figurative language and devices can represent ideas, thoughts and feelings to communicate meaning. They will also apply understanding of the structural and grammatical codes and conventions of writing to shape meaning.