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English Years 7–10 Life Skills organisation of content
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The Years 7–10 Life Skills content is suggested.
Content describes the intended learning for students as they work towards achieving one or more of the Life Skills outcomes. It provides the foundations for students to progress to the next stage of schooling or post-school opportunities.
Teachers will make decisions about the choice of outcomes and selection of content regarding the sequence, emphasis and any adjustments required based on the needs, strengths, goals, interests and prior learning of students. Examples provided in the content are suggestions only. Teachers may use the examples provided or use other examples to meet the particular needs of individual students.
Text selections
Teaching and learning opportunities which draw from a diverse range of texts can assist students to broaden and develop their own language skills. Examples of spoken texts, print texts, visual texts, media, multimedia and digital texts can be used to address the English Years 7–10 Life Skills outcomes. Where appropriate, students should experience a range of texts drawn from:
- texts which are widely regarded as quality literature
- a widely defined Australian literature, including texts that give insights into Aboriginal experiences in Australia
- a wide range of literary texts from other countries and times, including poetry, drama scripts, prose fiction and picture books
- texts written about intercultural experiences
- texts that provide insights about the peoples and cultures of Asia
- everyday and workplace texts
- a wide range of cultural, social and gender perspectives, popular and youth cultures
- texts that include aspects of environmental and social sustainability
- nonfiction, picture books, graphic novels
- an appropriate range of digital texts, including film, media and multimedia
- Shakespearean drama.
Refer to the Content section of this syllabus for further information about the organisation of content.