Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase (AC9E6LA01) understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias (AC9E6LA02) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole (AC9E6LA08) understand how to use the comma for lists, to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause, and in dialogue (AC9E6LA09) |
| 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) |
| Examining literature | identify and explain characteristics that define an author’s individual style (AC9E6LE03) explain the way authors use sound and imagery to create meaning and effect in poetry (AC9E6LE04) |
| Creating literature | create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices (AC9E6LE05) |
| Literacy | |
| 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) select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, monitoring meaning and evaluating the use of structural features; for example, table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings (AC9E6LY04) 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 phonic knowledge of common and less common grapheme–phoneme relationships to read and write increasingly complex words (AC9E6LY08) |
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