Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | recognise how language empowers relationships and roles (AC9E9LA01) understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor (AC9E9LA02) |
| 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 symbols in still and moving images augment meaning (AC9E9LA07) analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone (AC9E9LA08) understand punctuation conventions for referencing and citing others for formal and informal purposes (AC9E9LA09) |
| Literature | |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | 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 | |
| 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) |
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