Spoken, print, visual, media, multimedia and digital texts — the channels through which every text type travels — with a complete K–10 guide, Band‑level analyses and a ten‑lesson program.
What a ‘medium’ is, the six mediums — spoken, print, visual, media, multimedia and digital — how each shapes meaning, with worked annotations, marking criteria and syllabus links.
Open the Guide →Ten lessons — from reading a medium’s “language” to producing a multimodal text — each with teaching content, an exam‑style question, a Band 6 model, analysis and self‑check criteria.
Open the Lessons →In the NSW English K–10 syllabus, the medium of a text is the channel through which it is delivered — spoken, print, visual, media, multimedia and digital. A story, an argument or a report can travel through many mediums, and the medium changes the message: the same information lands differently as speech, as print, as a chart, as a film, or as an interactive website. NESA English K–10 expects students to experience and compose texts across these mediums from the earliest stages.
This pack sits alongside the purpose packs — Imaginative, Informative and Persuasive — and shows how the same purpose is shaped differently in every medium.