Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
English
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes (AC9E2LA03) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups (AC9E2LA07) understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text (AC9E2LA08) experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic (AC9E2LA09) recognise that capital letters are used in titles and commas are used to separate items in lists (AC9E2LA10) |
| Literature | |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences (AC9E2LE02) |
| 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) |
| Interacting with others | use interaction skills when engaging with topics, actively listening to others, receiving instructions and extending own ideas, speaking appropriately, expressing and responding to opinions, making statements, and giving instructions (AC9E2LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | read texts with phrasing and fluency, using phonic and word knowledge, and monitoring meaning by re-reading and self-correcting (AC9E2LY04) use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning (AC9E2LY05) |
| Creating texts | create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words (AC9E2LY06) |
Health and Physical Education
| Personal, social and community health | |
| Interacting with others | identify and explore skills and strategies to develop respectful relationships (AC9HP2P02) |
| Making healthy and safe choices | identify and demonstrate protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies they can use to help them and others stay safe (AC9HP2P05) |
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