AC9E3LA09 – Year 3 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

• 1 recognising how the relationship between characters can be depicted in images through the positioning of the characters; for example, facing each other or facing away from each other, the distance between them, the relative size, one character looking up (or down) at the other (power relationships), facial expressions and body gestures
• 2 recognising how images construct a relationship with the viewer through direct gaze into the viewer's eyes, inviting involvement, and how close-ups are more engaging than distanced images, which can suggest alienation or loneliness

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