Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic (AC9E2LA09) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | discuss how characters and settings are connected in literature created by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators (AC9E2LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences (AC9E2LE02) |
| Examining literature | discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways (AC9E2LE03) identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes or songs (AC9E2LE04) |
| Creating literature | create and edit literary texts by adapting structures and language features of familiar literary texts through drawing, writing, performance and digital tools (AC9E2LE05) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | identify how similar topics and information are presented in different types of texts (AC9E2LY01) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning (AC9E2LY05) |
| Creating texts | create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations for familiar audiences and purposes, using text structure appropriate to purpose and topic-specific vocabulary, and varying tone, volume and pace (AC9E2LY07) |
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