English

The West Australian Curriculum: English Foundation to Year 10 is organised into three interrelated
strands that support students' growing understanding and use of Standard Australian English
(English). Together the three strands focus on developing students' knowledge, understanding
and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking and writing. The three strands are:

  • Language: knowing about the English language
  • Literature: understanding, appreciating, responding to, analysing and creating literature
  • Literacy: expanding the repertoire of English usage.

 


TheWest Australian Curriculum: English aims to ensure that students:

 

  • learn to listen to, read, view, speak, write, create and reflect on increasingly complex and sophisticated spoken, written and multimodal texts across a growing range of contexts with accuracy, fluency and purpose
  • appreciate, enjoy and use the English language in all its variations and develop a sense of its richness and power to evoke feelings, convey information, form ideas, facilitate interaction with others, entertain, persuade and argue
  • understand how Standard Australian English works in its spoken and written forms and in combination with non-linguistic forms of communication to create meaning
  • develop interest and skills in inquiring into the aesthetic aspects of texts, and develop an informed appreciation of literature.


At Wattle Grove, teachers design learning experiences to support students in developing functional and critical literacy skills. Teachers are supported in working to meet the literacy needs of all the students in their care.

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