Comparing Characters, Settings and Events
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details about how characters interact, settings influence action, or events connect
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After reading a novel with several main characters, can your child compare two of them in detail — explaining how their personalities, experiences, and relationships are both similar and different?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
compare texts from different times with similar purposes and audiences to identify similarities and differences in their depictions of events
discuss how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.