Stage 5 reading - Author bias and perspective
Learning intention
Students will have opportunities to analyse author perspective and bias and how these are constructed in texts.
Syllabus outcome (2022)
- EN5-RVL-01: uses a range of personal, creative and critical strategies to interpret complex texts
- EN5-URB-01: evaluates how texts represent ideas and experiences, and how they can affirm or challenge values and attitudes
National Literacy Learning Progression
Understanding texts
UnT9: identifies different interpretations of the text citing evidence from a text (comprehension); identifies language used to create tone or atmosphere (vocabulary); analyses language and visual features in texts using metalanguage (e.g. cohesion, interpretation, figurative) (vocabulary)
UnT10: analyses the author’s perspectives in complex or some highly complex texts (comprehension); analyses the techniques authors use to position readers (comprehension); recognises when ideas or evidence have been omitted from a text to position the reader (comprehension)
UnT11: analyses the cumulative impact of use of language features and vocabulary across texts (comprehension); explains assumptions, beliefs and implicit values in texts (e.g. economic growth is always desirable)(comprehension); evaluates the social, moral and ethical positions taken in texts (comprehension)
NAPLAN item descriptors
The relevant NAPLAN item descriptors are included in the resource, available via the Universal Resources Hub.
Task outline
Full task descriptions are included in the resource, available via the Universal Resources Hub.
Purpose and audience analysis
Students compose a pitch to sell a product to specific audience profiles.
Tone
Students analyse text excerpts for tone.
Voice
Students focus on stylistic features that are unique to an author’s voice.
Mood
Students explore how moods can be represented in texts.
Theme
Students identify and use evidence from texts to determine theme.
Identifying bias
Students identify bias in texts.
Assumption
Students investigate assumptions that cartoonists make about their readers.
Author perspective
Students determine author perspective by recognising tone, mood, theme, bias and assumptions.