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As students work towards achievement at level 6, they produce, study and respond critically to texts created for a wide range of purposes and audiences. Students' increasing maturity and experience allow them to engage with and explore increasingly complex texts, themes and issues. Students become increasingly aware and critical of the social and political world around them. They learn to be critical and independent users of texts appropriate to situations in school, in their daily lives and in workplace situations.

Students are able to speak in a variety of formal and informal situations, exploring different perspectives on complex ideas and issues. They make informed judgments about the most effective way to engage an audience. They listen critically, examine the subtle ways in which spoken language influences audiences, and explore persuasive techniques in their own texts; for example, by using rhetorical devices to engage and influence audiences.

Students read classic, contemporary and popular literary texts, media and multimedia texts and develop more critical and analytic ways of reading and responding to them. Students use a vocabulary to talk explicitly about the style and tone of a text. Students analyse how different texts are likely to be interpreted by different groups, and why.

Encouraged to write in a variety of text types, students' writing explores more complex themes and issues for specific and general audiences. Students use and control complex linguistic structures and features to convey meaning and to meet the demands of the purpose and audience of the text.

Extension outcomes

For each level 6 learning outcome, an extension outcome has been provided for recognition of the achievements of those whose performance surpasses level 6. Not all students are expected to achieve these extension outcomes.