Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | Understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people AC9E10LA01 Understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual’s values AC9E10LA02 |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand how paragraph structure can be varied to create cohesion, and paragraphs and images can be integrated for different purposes AC9E10LA04 |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | Evaluate the features of still and moving images, and the effects of those choices on representations AC9E10LA07 |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | Analyse representations of individuals, groups and places and evaluate how they reflect their context in literary texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors AC9E10LE01 |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | Reflect on and extend others’ interpretations of and responses to literature AC9E10LE02 Analyse how the aesthetic qualities associated with text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and the context in which these texts are experienced, influence audience response AC9E10LE03 |
| Examining literature | Analyse how text structure, language features, literary devices and intertextual connections shape interpretations of texts AC9E10LE05 Analyse and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of texts AC9E10LE07 |
| Creating literature | Create and edit literary texts with a sustained ‘voice’, selecting and adapting text structures, literary devices, and language, auditory and visual features for purposes and audiences AC9E10LE08 |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | Analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and reflect contexts AC9E10LY01 |
| Interacting with others | Listen to spoken texts and explain the purposes and effects of text structures and language features, and use interaction skills to discuss and present an opinion about these texts AC9E10LY02 |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | Analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes AC9E10LY03 Integrate comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and interpret complex and abstract ideas AC9E10LY05 |
| Creating texts | Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas through experimenting with text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for specific purposesand audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical AC9E10LY06 Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations by experimenting with rhetorical devices, and the organisation and development of ideas, to engage audiences for different purposes in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical AC9E10LY07 |
| Word knowledge | Use knowledge of the spelling system to spell words and to manipulate standard spelling for particular effects AC9E10LY08 |