Year 2 English · AC9E2LE05

Create and edit literary texts by adapting structures and language features of familiar literary texts through drawing, writing, performance and digital tools

Writers can borrow a familiar text pattern, then change characters, settings, events, viewpoint or language to create an original adaptation

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1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

Writers can borrow a familiar text pattern, then change characters, settings, events, viewpoint or language to create an original adaptation.

Learning target: create and edit literary texts by adapting structures and language features of familiar literary texts through drawing, writing, performance and digital tools

Big idea: Create new literary texts from familiar structures and language features

Learning routine: Notice pattern → Plan adaptation → Create → Review → Edit

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2. Subject-Specific Content & Key Examples

Keep a structure but change the content

1familiar opening
2new character and setting
3similar problem pattern
4new ending

Adaptation uses a recognisable structure without copying the whole text.

Edit for meaning and effect

add missing eventimprove word choicecheck sequencerevise image or performance

Editing changes content, structure or language—not only spelling.

Sort and notice

Map the structure of a familiar class text using four panels.

Guided practice

  1. Sort and notice — Map the structure of a familiar class text using four panels.
  2. Build or improve — Create a new version by changing at least two major features, then edit it.
  3. Explain your choice — Use the words adapt, structure, edit to explain what you changed and why.
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AC9E2LE05 - Create and edit literary texts by adapting structures and language features of familiar literary texts through drawing, writing, performance and digital tools
Example 1

add missing event improve word choice check sequence revise image or performance

Example 2

Keep a structure but change the content 1 familiar opening 2 new character and setting 3 similar problem pattern 4 new ending Adaptation uses a recognisable structure without copying the whole text.

Example 3

Edit for meaning and effect add missing event improve word choice check sequence revise image or performance Editing changes content, structure or language—not only spelling.

Example 4

Sort and notice Map the structure of a familiar class text using four panels.

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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: inventing some speech, dialogue or behaviour for a favourite character, which may include the use of video and audio tools, for an alternative event or outcome in the original text
  • E2: reviewing and developing sentences; for example, adding prepositional phrases such as “with a long tail” to improve descriptions
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Revision Notes

  • Remember: Create new literary texts from familiar structures and language features
  • Use the routine: Notice pattern → Plan adaptation → Create → Review → Edit
  • 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

  • Copying instead of adapting: Keep a pattern but make meaningful original changes.
  • Editing only spelling: Also improve sequence, detail, language and clarity.
  • 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

  • What can be adapted?
  • What should stay recognisable?
  • What is editing?
  • How can drawing or performance tell the story?

Mastery evidence

  • Identify familiar structure
  • Plan an adaptation
  • Create original changes
  • Use multiple modes
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1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

Writers can borrow a familiar text pattern, then change characters, settings, events, viewpoint or language to create an original adaptation.

Learning target: create and edit literary texts by adapting structures and language features of familiar literary texts through drawing, writing, performance and digital tools

Big idea: Create new literary texts from familiar structures and language features

Learning routine: Notice pattern → Plan adaptation → Create → Review → Edit

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