Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | Recognise language used to evaluate texts including visual and multimodal texts, and how evaluations of a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources (AC9E7LA02) |
| Text structure and organisation | Identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts (AC9E7LA03) Understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs (AC9E7LA04) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | Analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective (AC9E7LA07) Investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings (AC9E7LY08) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | Identify and explore ideas, points of view, characters, events and/or issues in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and/or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E7LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | Form an opinion about characters, settings and events in texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others’ opinions and justifying a response (AC9E7LE02) Explain the ways that literary devices and language features such as dialogue, and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts (AC9E7LE03) Discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage (AC9E7LE04) |
| Examining literature | Identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives (AC9E7LE05) |
| Creating literature | Create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts (AC9E7LE07) |
| Literacy | |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | Analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose (AC9E7LY03) Explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology (AC9E7LY04) Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas (AC9E7LY05) |
| Creating texts | Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, selecting subject matter, and using text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features as appropriate to convey information, ideas and opinions in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical (AC9E7LY06) |
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand how language is used to evaluate other texts and how evaluations about a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources (ACELA1782) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause and effect, and extended metaphors (ACELA1531) Understand that coherence of more complex texts relies on devices that signal text structure and guide readers, for example overviews, initial and concluding paragraphs and topic sentences, indexes or site maps or breadcrumb trails for online texts (ACELA1763) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Analyse how point of view is generated in visual texts by means of choice, for example gaze, angle and social distance (ACELA1764) Understand how to use spelling rules and word origins, for example Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes, spelling patterns and generalisations to learn new words and how to spell them (ACELA1539) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Identify and explore ideas and viewpoints about events, issues and characters represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1619) |
| Responding to literature | Reflect on ideas and opinions about characters, settings and events in literary texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others and justifying a point of view (ACELT1620) Compare the ways that language and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts (ACELT1621) Discuss aspects of texts, for example, their aesthetic and social value, using relevant and appropriate metalanguage (ACELT1803) |
| Examining literature | Recognise and analyse the ways that characterisation, events and settings are combined in narrative and discuss the purposes and appeal of different approaches (ACELT1622) |
| Creating literature | Create literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in other texts, for example, narrative viewpoint, structure of stanzas, contrast and juxtaposition (ACELT1625) Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using rhythm, sound effects, monologue, layout, navigation and colour (ACELT1805) |
| Literacy | |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose (ACELY1721) Use prior knowledge and text processing strategies to interpret a range of types of texts (ACELY1722) Use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sources (ACELY1723) |
| Creating texts | Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725) Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to confidently create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts (ACELY1728) |
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