Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements, and their combination (AC9E9LA03) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | analyse the representations of people and places in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E9LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | present a personal response to a literary text comparing initial impressions and subsequent analysis of the whole text (AC9E9LE02) analyse how features of literary texts influence readers’ preference for texts (AC9E9LE03) |
| Examining literature | analyse texts and evaluate the aesthetic qualities and appeal of an author’s literary style (AC9E9LE04) analyse the effect of text structures, language features and literary devices such as extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, symbolism and intertextual references (AC9E9LE05) |
| Creating literature | create and edit literary texts, that may be a hybrid, that experiment with text structures, language features and literary devices for purposes and audiences (AC9E9LE06) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | analyse how representations of people, places, events and concepts reflect contexts (AC9E9LY01) |
| Interacting with others | listen to spoken texts that have different purposes and audiences, analysing how language features position listeners to respond in particular ways, and use interacting skills to present and discuss opinions regarding these texts (AC9E9LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | analyse and evaluate how language features are used to represent a perspective of an issue, event, situation, individual or group (AC9E9LY03) analyse the organisation of ideas in paragraphs and extended texts, and evaluate its impact on meaning (AC9E9LY04) use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to compare and contrast ideas and opinions in and between texts (AC9E9LY05) |
| Creating texts | plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical (AC9E9LY06) plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience, using language features, literary devices and features of voice such as volume, tone, pitch and pace, and organising, expanding and developing ideas in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical (AC9E9LY07) |
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4
| Language | |
| Language for 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) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand that authors innovate with text structures and language for specific purposes and effects (ACELA1553) |
| 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 | Present an argument about a literary text based on initial impressions and subsequent analysis of the whole text (ACELT1771) 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) |
| Creating literature | Create literary texts, including hybrid texts, that innovate on aspects of other texts, for example by using parody, allusion and appropriation (ACELT1773) |
| 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) |
| Interacting with others | Use interaction skills to present and discuss an idea and to influence and engage an audience by selecting persuasive language, varying voice tone, pitch, and pace, and using elements such as music and sound effects (ACELY1811) Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for aesthetic and playful purposes (ACELY1741) |
| Interpreting, evaluating and analysing | 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) Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse texts, comparing and evaluating representations of an event, issue, situation or character in different texts (ACELY1744) 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) Use a range of software, including word processing programs, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts (ACELY1748) |
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