Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | explore different ways of using language to express preferences, likes and dislikes (AC9EFLA02) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | explore the contribution of images and words to meaning in stories and informative texts (AC9EFLA07) |
| Literature | |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their events and characters (AC9EFLE02) |
| Examining literature | 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 | |
| Texts in context | identify some familiar texts, such as stories and informative texts, and their purpose (AC9EFLY01) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (AC9EFLY05) |
| Creating texts | create and participate in shared editing of short written texts to record and report ideas and events using some learnt vocabulary, basic sentence boundary punctuation and spelling some consonant–vowel–consonant words correctly (AC9EFLY06) create and deliver short spoken texts to report ideas and events to peers, using features of voice such as appropriate volume (AC9EFLY07) |
| Phonic and word knowledge | recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (phonological awareness) (AC9EFLY09) read and write some high-frequency words and other familiar words (AC9EFLY14) |
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