Learning Continuum of Literacy (Version 8.4)

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This element involves students understanding how visual information contributes to the meanings created in learning area texts.

Students interpret still and moving images, graphs, tables, maps and other graphic representations, and understand and evaluate how images and language work together in distinctive ways in different curriculum areas to present ideas and information in the texts they compose and comprehend. In developing and acting with literacy, students:

  • understand how visual elements create meaning.

Level 3

Typically by the end of Year 4, students:

Understand how visual elements create meaning

identify the effects of choices in the construction of images, including framing and composition

Level 4

Typically by the end of Year 6, students:

Understand how visual elements create meaning

explain how analytical images such as figures, diagrams, tables, maps and graphs contribute to understanding of factual information in texts

Level 5

Typically by the end of Year 8, students:

Understand how visual elements create meaning

analyse the effects of different visual elements upon the reader/viewer, and how visual texts such as advertisements and informative texts draw on and allude to other texts to enhance meaning