Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose (AC9E10LA03) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | analyse representations of individuals, groups and places and evaluate how they reflect their context in literary texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E10LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | reflect on and extend others’ interpretations of and responses to literature (AC9E10LE02) |
| Examining literature | analyse how text structure, language features, literary devices and intertextual connections shape interpretations of texts (AC9E10LE05) analyse and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of texts (AC9E10LE07) |
| Literacy | |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | analyse and evaluate how authors organise ideas in texts to achieve a purpose (AC9E10LY04) |
| Creating texts | plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas through experimenting with text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for specific purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical (AC9E10LY06) plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations by experimenting with rhetorical devices, and the organisation and development of ideas, to engage audiences for different purposes in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical (AC9E10LY07) |
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