Year 2 English · AC9E2LA08

Understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text

An image may repeat a written idea, add information not stated in words, show mood or viewpoint, or help the reader infer what is happening

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1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

An image may repeat a written idea, add information not stated in words, show mood or viewpoint, or help the reader infer what is happening.

Learning target: understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text

Big idea: Explain information, mood and ideas communicated by words and images together

Learning routine: Read words → Observe image → Notice new information → Combine meanings

Key conceptTeach from the board

2. Subject-Specific Content & Key Examples

Combine words and image clues

1Text: The path looked difficult.
2Image: steep rocks and dark clouds
3New meaning: danger and challenge

The image expands the written meaning rather than merely decorating the page.

Ask what the image contributes

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Name information gained from the image and combine it with the words.

Sort and notice

Cover the words, interpret the image, then reveal the text and compare meanings.

Guided practice

  1. Sort and notice — Cover the words, interpret the image, then reveal the text and compare meanings.
  2. Build or improve — Add a purposeful image plan to a short text and label what it contributes.
  3. Explain your choice — Use the words image, meaning, inference to explain what you changed and why.
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Clean one-page examples

AC9E2LA08 - Understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text
Example 1

1 Text: The path looked difficult.

Example 2

setting detail character emotion sequence clue scientific label

Example 3

Combine words and image clues 1 Text: The path looked difficult. 2 Image: steep rocks and dark clouds 3 New meaning: danger and challenge The image expands the written meaning rather than merely decorating the page.

Example 4

Ask what the image contributes setting detail character emotion sequence clue scientific label Name information gained from the image and combine it with the words.

Curriculum examplesCurriculum examples

Curriculum Coverage & Elaborations

The content description is the required target. The elaborations below are taught as examples and contexts, not as disconnected checklist wording.

  • E1: identifying images and graphics in a text that add ideas or information not included in the written text; for example, a map or table in a factual text or an illustration in a story, which gives clues about the setting
  • E2: identifying visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and considering how these images add to or multiply the meaning of accompanying words
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Revision Notes

  • Remember: Explain information, mood and ideas communicated by words and images together
  • Use the routine: Read words → Observe image → Notice new information → Combine meanings
  • Before answering: point to the clue in the spoken words, written sentence, image, page layout or text purpose.
  • Self-check: change the example slightly and see whether the same reasoning still works.
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3. Common Student Misconceptions

  • Calling every image decoration: Check whether the image adds information, mood or a clue.
  • Ignoring the written text: Meaning often comes from combining both modes.
  • Answer without evidence: Point to the word, sentence, image, sound pattern or text feature that supports the answer.

Practice Thought & Formative Assessment

Use a fresh, code-aligned example. The student should show the exact word, sound, sentence, image feature, audience clue or text evidence that supports the answer.

Quick checks

  • How can an image show mood?
  • What is an image clue?
  • Can an image add unstated information?
  • Why combine words and pictures?

Mastery evidence

  • Observe image details
  • Read written meaning
  • Identify added information
  • Make an inference
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1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

An image may repeat a written idea, add information not stated in words, show mood or viewpoint, or help the reader infer what is happening.

Learning target: understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text

Big idea: Explain information, mood and ideas communicated by words and images together

Learning routine: Read words → Observe image → Notice new information → Combine meanings

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