| Language | |
| Language variation and change | Understand that Standard Australian English is a living language within which the creation and loss of words and the evolution of usage is ongoing (ACELA1550) |
| Language for interaction | Understand that roles and relationships are developed and challenged through language and interpersonal skills (ACELA1551) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Understand how spelling is used creatively in texts for particular effects, for example characterisation and humour and to represent accents and styles of speech (ACELA1562) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Interpret and compare how representations of people and culture in literary texts are drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1633) |
| Responding to literature | Reflect on, discuss and explore notions of literary value and how and why such notions vary according to context (ACELT1634) Explore and reflect on personal understanding of the world and significant human experience gained from interpreting various representations of life matters in texts (ACELT1635) |
| Examining literature | Analyse texts from familiar and unfamiliar contexts, and discuss and evaluate their content and the appeal of an individual author’s literary style (ACELT1636) Analyse text structures and language features of literary texts, and make relevant comparisons with other texts (ACELT1772) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | Analyse how the construction and interpretation of texts, including media texts, can be influenced by cultural perspectives and other texts (ACELY1739) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Interpret, analyse and evaluate how different perspectives of issue, event, situation, individuals or groups are constructed to serve specific purposes in texts (ACELY1742) Apply an expanding vocabulary to read increasingly complex texts with fluency and comprehension (ACELY1743) Explore and explain the combinations of language and visual choices that authors make to present information, opinions and perspectives in different texts (ACELY1745) |
| Creating texts | Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance or illustrate arguments, including texts that integrate visual, print and/or audio features (ACELY1746) Review and edit students’ own and others’ texts to improve clarity and control over content, organisation, paragraphing, sentence structure, vocabulary and audio/visual features (ACELY1747) Use a range of software, including word processing programs, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts (ACELY1748) |