Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | explore language used to develop relationships in formal and informal situations (AC9E4LA01) |
| Text structure and organisation | identify how texts across the curriculum have different language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages depending on purposes (AC9E4LA03) identify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas (AC9E4LA04) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | understand that complex sentences contain one independent clause and at least one dependent clause typically joined by a subordinating conjunction to create relationships, such as time and causality (AC9E4LA06) explore the effect of choices when framing an image, placement of elements in the image and salience on composition of still and moving images in texts (AC9E4LA10) expand vocabulary by exploring a range of synonyms and antonyms, and using words encountered in a range of sources (AC9E4LA11) |
| Literature | |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | describe the effects of text structures and language features in literary texts when responding to and sharing opinions (AC9E4LE02) |
| Examining literature | discuss how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions (AC9E4LE03) |
| Creating literature | create and edit literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (AC9E4LE05) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | compare texts from different times with similar purposes and audiences to identify similarities and differences in their depictions of events (AC9E4LY01) |
| Interacting with others | listen for key points and information to carry out tasks and contribute to discussions, acknowledging another opinion, linking a response to the topic, and sharing and extending ideas and information (AC9E4LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | identify the characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (AC9E4LY03) read different types of texts, integrating phonic, semantic and grammatical knowledge to read accurately and fluently, re-reading and self-correcting when needed (AC9E4LY04) use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and evaluate texts (AC9E4LY05) |
| Creating texts | plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation (AC9E4LY06) |
| Phonic and word knowledge | understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns, including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphological word families, common prefixes and suffixes, and word origins, to spell more complex words (AC9E4LY10) |
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