How can you tell they’ve got it: Performing Scripts & Poetry?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Perform a scene from a play using appropriate intonation, volume, and pauses to convey character and mood; Use improvisation to explore how a character might respond in a new situation; Rehearse and perform a poem aloud, using pace and emphasis to bring out the meaning. Or just try it together: When your child performs in a play or reads aloud from a script, do they use their voice — volume, pace, and expression — to bring the character or poem to life?

English Speaking & Listening Ages 11–14

Performing Scripts & Poetry

Your child can rehearse and perform a script or poem. They use their voice, pauses and action to bring the meaning to life.

In curriculum terms

Improvise, rehearse, and perform play scripts and poetry — using role, intonation, tone, volume, mood, silence, stillness, and action to generate language, explore meaning, and add impact to performance

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Perform a scene from a play using appropriate intonation, volume, and pauses to convey character and mood
Use improvisation to explore how a character might respond in a new situation
Rehearse and perform a poem aloud, using pace and emphasis to bring out the meaning

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Try this together

When your child performs in a play or reads aloud from a script, do they use their voice — volume, pace, and expression — to bring the character or poem to life?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Understanding drama and performanceages 11–14Performance connects to understanding how dramatists communicate through staging choices

Performing Scripts & Poetrythis skill · ages 11–14

Unlocks

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Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9E6LE04medium confidenceYear 6 · Literature

explain the way authors use sound and imagery to create meaning and effect in poetry

AC9E5LE04medium confidenceYear 5 · Literature

examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs

AC9E5LE05low confidenceYear 5 · Literature

create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

EN3-CWT-01low confidenceEnglish K-10 · Stage 3

EN3-UARL-01low confidenceEnglish K-10 · Stage 3

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2E6LE04medium confidenceEnglish · Level 6 · Literature strand

VC2E5LE04low confidenceEnglish · Level 5 · Literature strand

VC2E5LE05low confidenceEnglish · Level 5 · Literature strand

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.

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Speaking Formally and Giving Presentationsages 11–14 Adapting Speech to Contextages 10–11 Building on Others in Discussionsages 10–11 Drawing Conclusions from Discussionages 10–11

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