Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | describe how spoken, written and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts (AC9E5LA03) understand how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give prominence to the message and to guide the reader through the text (AC9E5LA04) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | understand how noun groups can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of a person, place, thing or idea (AC9E5LA06) explain how the sequence of images in print, digital and film texts has an effect on meaning (AC9E5LA07) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | identify aspects of literary texts that represent details or information about historical, social and cultural contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E5LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | present an opinion on a literary text using specific terms about literary devices, text structures and language features, and reflect on the viewpoints of others (AC9E5LE02) |
| Examining literature | recognise that the point of view in a literary text influences how readers interpret and respond to events and characters (AC9E5LE03) examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs (AC9E5LE04) |
| Creating literature | create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced (AC9E5LE05) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | describe the ways in which a text reflects the time and place in which it was created (AC9E5LY01) |
| Interacting with others | use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea (AC9E5LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | explain characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (AC9E5LY03) use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas (AC9E5LY05) |
| Creating texts | plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation (AC9E5LY06) |
| Phonic and word knowledge | use phonic, morphemic and vocabulary knowledge to read and spell words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations (AC9E5LY08) |
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