Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | recognise how language empowers relationships and roles (AC9E9LA01) |
| Text structure and organisation | examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written visual and multimodal elements, and their combination (AC9E9LA04) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone (AC9E9LA08) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | analyse the representations if people and places in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nation Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E9LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | present a personal response to a literary text comparing initial impressions and subsequent analysis of the whole text (AC9E9LE02) |
| Examining literature | analyse the effect of text structures, language features and literary devices such as extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, symbolism and intertextual references (AC9E9LE05) |
| Creating literature | create and edit literary texts, that may be a hybrid, that experiment with text structures, language features and literary devices for purposes and audiences (AC9E9LE06) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | analyse how representations of people, places, events and concepts reflect contexts (AC9E9LY01) |
| Interacting with others | listen to spoken texts that have different purposes and audiences, analysing how language features position listeners to respond in particular ways, and use interacting skills to present and discuss opinions regarding these texts (AC9E9LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | analyse and evaluate how language features are used to represent a perspective of an issue, event, situation, individual or group (AC9E9LY03) |
| Word knowledge | understand how spelling is used in texts for particular effects; for example characterisation, humour and to represent accents and distinctive speech (AC9E9LY08) |
| Creating texts | plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising and expanding ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical (AC9E8LY06) |
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