Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | Identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes (AC9E2LA03) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | Understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text (AC9E2LA08) Experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic (AC9E2LA09) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | Discuss how characters and settings are connected in literature created by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators (AC9E2LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | Identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences (AC9E2LE02) |
| Examining literature | Discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways (AC9E2LE03) |
| Creating literature | Create and edit literary texts by adapting structures and language features of familiar literary texts through drawing, writing, performance and digital tools (AC9E2LE05) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | Discuss how similar topics and information are presented in different types of texts (AC9E2LY01) |
| Interacting with others | Use interaction skills when engaging with topics, actively listening to others, receiving instructions and extending own ideas, speaking appropriately, expressing and responding to opinions, making statements, and giving instructions (AC9E2LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | Identify the purpose and audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts (AC9E2LY03) Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning (AC9E2LY05) |
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things (ACELA1462) (EN1-1A) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand how texts are made cohesive through language features, including word associations, synonyms, and antonyms (ACELA1464) (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 multiple the meaning of accompanying words (ACELA1469) (EN1-4A) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created (ACELT1587) (EN1-10C) |
| Responding to literature | Compare opinions about characters, events and setting in and between texts (ACELT1589) (EN1-11D) Compare aspects of different literary texts that entertain and give reasons for personal preferences (ACELT1590) (EN1-11D) |
| Examining literature | Discuss the characters and setting of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways (ACELT1591) (EN1-7B) |
| Creating literature | Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters (ACELT1593) (EN1-2A) Innovate on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot (ACELT1833) (EN1-10C) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | Discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts (ACELY1665) (EN1-4A) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (ACELY1668) (EN1-8B) 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) |
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