Why do we visit the library?

• The Australian Curriculm

  The Australian Curriculum: English Foundation to Year 10 is organised into three interrelated strands that support students' growing understanding and use of Standard Australian English. Together the three strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking and writing. The three strands are:

  Language: knowing about the English language

  Literature: understanding, appreciating, responding to, analysing and creating 

  Literacy: expanding the repertoire of English usage.

  
  

• The role of the OLC library.

  The focus during OLC class library lessons is to develop the areas of literature and literacy. Library lessons are structured to allow students to:

  	Respond to literature.	Interact with others
  	Examine literature	Interpret, analyse and evaluate

  Texts provide the means for communication. They can be written, spoken or multimodal, and in print or digital/online forms. Multimodal texts combine language with other means of communication such as visual images, soundtrack or spoken word, as in film or computer presentation media. 

  The term ‘literature’ refers to past and present texts across a range of cultural contexts that are valued for their form and style and are recognised as having enduring or artistic value. Texts are seen as having personal, social, cultural and aesthetic value and potential for enriching students’ scope of experience. 

  
  

Mrs Meyer