Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people (AC9EFLA01) |
| Text structure and organisation | understand that texts can take many forms such as signs, books and digital texts (AC9EFLA03) understand conventions of print and screen, including how books and simple digital texts are usually organised (AC9EFLA04) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas (AC9EFLA05) recognise that sentences are made up of groups of words that work together in particular ways to make meaning (AC9EFLA06) identify punctuation as a feature of written text different from letters; recognise that capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters also signal the beginning of sentences while punctuation marks signal the end (AC9EFLA09) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting on experiences that are similar or different to their own by engaging with texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators (AC9EFLE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their events and characters (AC9EFLE02) |
| Examining literature | recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings (AC9EFLE03) explore and replicate the rhythms and sound patterns of literary texts such as poems, rhymes and songs (AC9EFLE04) |
| Creating literature | retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing (AC9EFLE05) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | interact in informal and structured situations by listening while others speak and using features of voice including volume levels (AC9EFLY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | read decodable and authentic texts using developing phonic knowledge, and monitor meaning using context and emerging grammatical knowledge (AC9EFLY04) use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (AC9EFLY05) |
| Phonic and word knowledge | segment sentences into individual words; orally blend and segment single-syllable spoken words; isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single-syllable words (phonological awareness) (AC9EFLY10) use knowledge of letters and sounds to spell words (AC9EFLY13) |
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