Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | Understand that cooperation with others depends on shared understanding of social conventions, including turn-taking language, which vary according to the degree of formality (AC9E3LA01) |
| Text structure and organisation | Identify the purpose of layout features in print and digital texts and the words used for navigation (AC9E3LA05) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | 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 with and responding to literature | Discuss connections between personal experiences and character experiences in literary texts and share personal preferences (AC9E3LE02) |
| 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 interactions skills to contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas (AC9E3LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts through their use of language features and/or images (AC9E3LY03) 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) Plan, create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations to inform, express opinions or tell stories, using a clear structure, details to elaborate ideas, topic-specific and precise vocabulary, visual features, and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume (AC9E3LY07) |
| Phonic and word knowledge | Understand how to apply knowledge of common base words, prefixes, suffixes and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word to read and comprehend new multimorphemic words (AC9E3LY10) |
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand that successful cooperation with others depends on shared use of social conventions, including turn-taking patterns, and forms of address that vary according to the degree of formality in social situations (ACELA1476) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Identify the effect on audiences of techniques, for example shot size, vertical camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segments (ACELA1483) |
| Phonics and word knowledge | Know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word (ACELA1827) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons (ACELT1594) |
| Responding to literature | Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT1569) |
| 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) Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue (ACELT1791) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view (ACELY1675) |
| Interacting with others | Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations (ACELY1676) Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence (ACELY1677) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts (ACELY1678) Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1680) |
| 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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