Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | Understand how language, facial expressions and gestures are used to interact with others when asking for and providing information, making offers, exclaiming, requesting and giving commands (AC9E1LA01) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | Understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) (AC9E1LA07) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | Discuss how language and images are used to create characters, setting and events in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators (AC9E1LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | Discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences (AC9E1LE02) |
| Examining literature | Discuss plot, character and setting, which are features of stories (AC9E1LE03) |
| Creating literature | Orally retell or adapt a familiar story using plot and characters, language features including vocabulary, and structure of a familiar text, through role-play, writing, drawing or digital tools (AC9E1LE05) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | Use interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours and responding to the contributions of others, and contributing ideas and questions (AC9E1LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures (AC9E1LY05) |
| Creating texts | Create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllable words (AC9E1LY06) |
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