General capabilities 🔗
Content descriptions
English
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view (ACELA1502) (EN3-1A) |
| Phonics and word knowledge | Explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word (ACELA1514) (EN3-4A) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts (ACELA1512) (EN3-6B) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts (ACELT1608) (EN3-5B) |
| Examining literature | Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responses (ACELT1610) (EN3-8D) |
| Responding to literature | Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences (ACELT1795) (EN3-6B) Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others (ACELT1609) (EN3-7C) |
| Creating literature | Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors (ACELT1798) (EN3-2A) Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced (ACELT1612) (EN3-6B) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | Show how ideas and points of view in texts are conveyed through the use of vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions, objective and subjective language, and that these can change according to context (ACELY1698) (EN3-5B) |
| Interacting with others | Clarify understanding of content as it unfolds in formal and informal situations, connecting ideas to students’ own experiences and present and justify a point of view (ACELY1699) (EN3-8D) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning (ACELY1702) (EN1-4A) Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703) (EN1-4A) |
| Creating texts | Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704) (EN3-2A) |
HASS
| Year 5 Achievement Standards (History) | When researching, students develop questions for a historical inquiry. They identify a range of sources and locate, collect and organise information related to this inquiry. They analyse sources to determine their origin and purpose and to identify different viewpoints. Students develop, organise and present their texts, particularly narrative recounts and descriptions, using historical terms and concepts. |
| Civics and citizenship | How people with shared beliefs and values work together to achieve a civic goal (ACHASSK118) |