Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
Other curriculum areas
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4
English
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand that language is used in combination with other means of communication, for example facial expressions and gestures to interact with others (ACELA1444) (EN1-1A) |
| Text structure and organisation | Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands (ACELA1449) (EN1-9B) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent ‘What’s happening?’, ‘What state is being described?’, ‘Who or what is involved?’ and the surrounding circumstances (ACELA1451) (EN1-4A) Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) (ACELA1452) (EN1-9B) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Discuss how authors create characters using language and images (ACELT1581) (EN1-11D) |
| Responding to literature | Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students’ own experiences (ACELT1582) (EN1-11D) |
| Examining literature | Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters in different texts (ACELT1584) (EN1-7B) |
| Creating literature | Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication (ACELT1586) (EN1-10C) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening behaviours, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions (ACELY1656) (EN1-1A) Use interaction skills including turn-taking, recognising the contributions of others, speaking clearly and using appropriate volume and pace (ACELY1788) (EN1-1A) Make short presentations using some introduced text structures and language, for example opening statements (ACELY1657) (EN1-6B) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660) (EN1-4A) |
| Creating texts | Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements (ACELY1661) (EN1-2A) Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs (ACELY1664) (EN1-3A) |
Health and Physical Education
| Personal, social and community health | |
| Being healthy, safe and active | Describe their own strengths and achievements and those of others, and identify how these contribute to personal identities (ACPPS015) (PD1-1) |
| Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing | Describe ways to include others to make them feel they belong (ACPPS019) (PD1-3) |