Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
English
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features (AC9E6LA03) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole (AC9E6LA08) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | identify responses to characters and events in literary texts, drawn from historical, social or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E6LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | identify similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes or plots (AC9E6LE02) |
| Examining literature | identify and explain characteristics that define an author’s individual style (AC9E6LE03) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created (AC9E6LY01) |
| Interacting with others | use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions (AC9E6LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences (AC9E6LY03) use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources (AC9E6LY05) |
| Creating texts | plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features (AC9E6LY06) |
| Phonic and word knowledge | use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical words (AC9E6LY09) |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
| Country/Place | First Nations communities of Australia maintain a deep connection to, and responsibility for, Country/Place and have holistic values and belief systems that are connected to the land, sea, sky and waterways. (A_TSICP1) |
| Culture | First Nations Australian societies are diverse and have distinct cultural expressions such as language, customs and beliefs. As First Nations Peoples of Australia, they have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural expressions, while also maintaining the right to control, protect and develop culture as Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property. (A_TSIC1) First Nations Australians’ ways of life reflect unique ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing. (A_TSIC2) The First Peoples of Australia (Aboriginal Peoples) belong to the world’s oldest continuous cultures. First Nations Australians demonstrate resilience in the maintenance, practice and revitalisation of culture despite the many historic and enduring impacts of colonisation, and continue to celebrate and share the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures. (A_TSIC3) |
| People | Australia has 2 distinct First Nations Peoples; each encompasses a diversity of nations across Australia. Aboriginal Peoples are the first peoples of Australia and have occupied the Australian continent for more than 60,000 years. Torres Strait Islander Peoples are the First Nations Peoples of the Torres Strait and have occupied the region for over 4,000 years. (A_TSIP1) The significant and ongoing contributions of First Nations Australians and their histories and cultures are acknowledged locally, nationally and globally. (A_TSIP3) |
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