Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | recognise that sentences are made up of groups of words that work together in particular ways to make meaning (AC9EFLA06) explore the contribution of images and words to meaning in stories and informative texts (AC9EFLA07) recognise and develop awareness of vocabulary used in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school (AC9EFLA08) 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) |
| Literacy | |
| 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) |
| Phonic and word knowledge | recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (phonological awareness) (AC9EFLY09) |
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