| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand that language varies when people take on different roles in social and classroom interactions and how the use of key interpersonal language resources varies depending on context (ACELA1461) (EN1-6B) Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things (ACELA1462) (EN1-10C) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose (ACELA1463) (EN1-8B) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Understand that simple connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with two or more clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction (ACELA1467) (EN1-9B) Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives (ACELA1468) (EN1-4A) Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words (ACELA1469) (EN1-8B) Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose (ACELA1470) (EN1-2A) |
| Phonics and word knowledge | Build morphemic word families using knowledge of prefixes and suffixes (ACELA1472) (EN1-5A) |
| Literature | |
| Responding to literature | Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences (ACELT 1590) (EN1-11D) |
| Examining literature | Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways (ACELT1591) (EN1-4A) |
| Creating literature | Innovate on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot (ACELT1833) (EN1-8B) Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts (ACELT1593) (EN1-2A) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others’ ideas in discussions (ACELY1666) (EN1-1A) Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics (ACELY1667) (EN1-7B) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts (ACELY1668) (EN1-11D) Read less predictable texts with phrasing and fluency by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies, for example monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting (ACELY1669) (EN1-4A) Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures (ACELY1670) (EN1-4A) |
| Creating texts | Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1671) (EN1-2A) Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs (ACELY1674) (EN1-3A) |