Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand the social interactions influence the way people engage with ideas and respond to others for example when exploring and clarifying the ideas of others, summarising their own views and reporting them to a larger group (ACELA1488) (EN2-11D) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience (ACELA1490) (EN2-8B) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Explore the effect of choices when framing an image, placement of elements in the image, and salience on composition of still and moving images in a range of types of texts (ACELA1496) (EN2-8B) Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text (ACELA1494) (EN2-8B) |
| Phonics and word knowledge | Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes and word origins to spell more complex words (ACLEA1779) (EN2-5A) (ACELA1828) (EN2-5A) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and context | Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships (ACELT1602) (EN2-11D) |
| Responding to literature | Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (ACELT1603) (EN2-12E) Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts (ACELT1604) (EN2-8B) |
| Examining literature | Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension (ACELT1605) (EN2-10C) |
| Creating literature | Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607) (EN2-11D) Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794) (EN2-7B) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently (ACELY1688) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692) Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (ACELY1690) (EN2-11D) |