Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | Describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose (AC9E3LA03) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating (AC9E3LA07) Understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense (AC9E3LA08) Identify how images extend the meaning of a text (AC9E3LA09) Extend topic-specific and technical vocabulary and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts (AC9E3LA10) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Discuss characters, events and settings in different contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators (AC9E3LE01) |
| Engaging and responding to literature | Discuss connections between personal experiences and character experiences in literary texts and share personal preferences (AC9E3LE02) |
| Examining literature | Discuss how an author uses language and illustrations to portray characters and settings in texts, and explore how the settings and events influence the mood of the narrative (AC9E3LE03) Discuss the effects of some literary devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose (AC9E3LE04) |
| Creating literature | Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts (AC9E3LE05) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | Use interaction skills to contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas (AC9E3LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | Use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (AC9E3LY05) |
| Creating texts | Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic-specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetically regular words (AC9E3LY06) |
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand how different types of texts vary is use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences) (ACELA1478) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tense (ACELA1482) Identify the effect on audiences of techniques, for example, shot size, vertical camera angle and layout in pictures (ACELA1483) Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs (ACELA1484) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reason (ACELT1594) |
| Responding to literature | Draw connections between personal experiences and the world of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT1596) |
| Examining literature | Discuss how language is used to describe the setting in texts and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative (ACELT1599) |
| Creating literature | Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from Students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle (ACELT1601) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | Listen and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations (ACELY1676) Use interaction skills, including active listening behaviours and communicate in a clear, coherent manner using a variety of everyday and learned vocabulary and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume (ACELY1792) |
| Creating texts | Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print, and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1682) |
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