VC2E6LA08
Parents start here
Your child is learning to judge how a writer's words act on the reader.
- Explain how a specific metaphor or simile affects the reader's understanding or emotions
- Evaluate an author's choice of descriptive language and its impact on atmosphere
One skill from the map, ages 10–11 — its page has the rest of the checklist and what comes next. Candidate alignment, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
A Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 content description in English, Level 6. The description text is © VCAA and not reproduced here — read the official wording at the VCAA site.
Official source: Victorian Curriculum F–10 V2.0 — English ↗ · content © VCAA (CC-BY-NC) · codes shown as reference labels only
Closest Australian Curriculum v9 codes
The national codes this Victorian code most closely corresponds to — ✓ marks codes where Victoria kept the national numbering; all correspondences are machine-suggested candidates, unreviewed (v0.1).
identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole
examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs
explain the way authors use sound and imagery to create meaning and effect in poetry
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
high confidence2 skills
5 other candidate matches — 4 medium, 1 low
medium confidence
low confidence
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Language strand (Level 6):
VC2E6LA01VC2E6LA02VC2E6LA03VC2E6LA04VC2E6LA05VC2E6LA06VC2E6LA07VC2E6LA09
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