Texts

4.5 Justifies own interpretation of ideas, information and events in texts containing some unfamiliar concepts and topics and which introduce relatively complex linguistic structures and features.

5.1 Interacts with peers in structured situations, using a variety of text types to discuss familiar or accessible subjects involving challenging ideas and issues.

5.5 Discusses themes and issues in accessible texts with challenging structures and ideas, and constructs responses interpreting these.

Contextual understanding

4.2 Considers aspects of context, purpose and audience when speaking and listening in familiar situations.

Linguistic structures and features

5.7 Draws on knowledge of linguistic structures and features to explain how texts are constructed.

Strategies

4.8a Selects, uses and reflects on strategies appropriate for different texts and reading or viewing purposes.

4.8b With peers, identifies information needs and finds resources and information for
specific purposes.

The Arts: Media

Creating, making and presenting

5.11 Uses starting points such as observation, experiences and research to express ideas and feelings.

Arts criticism and aesthetics

4.14 Talks and writes informally about personal observations of media texts.

Past and present contexts

4.15 Identifies features of media productions that locate them in a particular time, place or culture.

Science

Working Scientifically

4.18 Identifies the information needed to make decisions about an application of science.

Energy and Change

5.5 Explains energy input-output devices using concepts of force, work and power.

SOSE

Features of places

4.4 Describes the association of features that give rise to similarities between places.

4.5 Describes how people's beliefs and practices influence the ways they interact with places.

Culture

4.8 Describes beliefs and social organisation of groups in communities other than their own.

4.9 Describes the roles, rights and responsibilities of members of cultural groups.