Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | Explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features (AC9E6LA03) Understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations (AC9E6LA04) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas (AC9E6LA05) Identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such a metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole (AC9E6LA08) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | Identify responses to characters and events in literary texts, drawn from historical, social or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E6LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | Identify similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes or plots (AC9E6LE02) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | Use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions (AC9E6LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences (AC9E6LY03) Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literary and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources (AC9E6LY05) |
| Creating texts | Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features (AC9E6LY06) |
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