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 6

Typically by the end of Year 10, students:

Understand how visual elements create meaning

evaluate the impact of different visual choices in the composition of images, including symbolic images and movement of camera or light, to achieve different nuances