Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4
| Language | |
| Language variation and change | Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background (ACELA1460) (EN1-6B) |
| Language for interaction | Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things (ACELA1462) (EN1-6B) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose (ACELA 1463) (EN1-8B) Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists (ACELA1465) (EN1-9B) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words (ACELA1469) (EN1-8B) Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose (ACELA1470) (EN1-2A) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and Context | Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created (ACELT1587) (EN1-8B) |
| Responding to literature | Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in and between texts (ACELT1589) (EN1-10C) Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences (ACELT1590) (EN1-4A) |
| Examining literature | Discuss the characters and setting of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways (ACELT1591) (EN1-4A) |
| Creating literature | Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts (ACELT1593) (EN1-10C) Innovate on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot (ACELT1833) (EN1-2A) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in Context | Discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts (ACELY1665) (EN1-8B) |
| Interacting with others | Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others’ ideas in discussions (ACELY1666) (EN1-1A) Use interaction skills including initiating topics, making positive statements and voicing disagreements in an appropriate manner, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately (ACELY1789) (EN1-1A) Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics (ACELY1667) (EN1-11D) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures (ACELY1670) (EN1-4A) |
| Creating texts | Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1671) (EN1-11D) Write legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper case and lower case letters (ACELY1673) (EN1-3A) |