ACELT1605

Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers' interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension

Elaborations

• examining the author's description of a character's appearance, behaviour and speech and noting how the character's development is evident through his or her dialogue and changing relationships and the reactions of other characters to him or her (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• identifying pivotal points in the plot where characters are faced with choices and commenting on how the author makes us care about their decisions and consequences (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding)

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