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) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone (AC9E9LA08) |
| 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) |
| 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 | |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand that authors innovate with text structures and language for specific purposes and effects (ACELA1553) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Identify how vocabulary choices contribute to specificity, abstraction and stylistic effectiveness (ACELA1561) |
| 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) Reflect on, discuss and explore notions of literary value and how and why such notions vary according to context (ACELT1634) |
| 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) Experiment with the ways that language features, image and sound can be adapted in literary texts, for example the effects of stereotypical characters and settings, the playfulness of humour and pun and the use of hyperlink (ACELT1638) |
| 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 a music and sound effects (ACELY1811) Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for aesthetic and playful purposes (ACELY1741) |
| 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) Review and edit students’ own and others’ texts to improve clarity and control over content, organisation, paragraphing, sentence structure, vocabulary and audio/visual features (ACELY1747) Use a range of software, including word processing programs, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts (ACELY1748) |
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