Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | Explore how language can be used for appreciating texts and providing reasons for preferences (AC9E2LA02) |
| Text structure and organisation | Identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes (AC9E2LA03) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | Understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text (AC9E2LA08) Experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic (AC9E2LA09) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | Discuss how characters and settings are connected in literature created by First Nations Australians, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators (AC9E2LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | Identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences (AC9E2LE02) |
| Examining literature | Discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways (AC9E2LE03) |
| Creating literature | Create and edit literary texts by adapting structures and language features of familiar literary texts through drawing, writing, performance and digital tools (AC9E2LE05) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | Identify how similar topics and information are presented in different types of text (AC9E2LY01) |
| Interacting with others | Use interaction skills when engaging with topics, actively listening to others, receiving instructions and extending own ideas, speaking appropriately, expressing and responding to opinions, making statements, and giving instructions (AC9E2LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning (AC9E2LY05) |
| Creating texts | Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups, and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words (AC9E2LY06) Create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations for familiar audiences and purposes, using appropriate to purpose and topic-specific vocabulary, and varying tone, volume and pace (AC9E2LY07) |