Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities (AC9E7LA01) recognise language used to evaluate texts including visual and multimodal texts, and how evaluations of a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources (AC9E7LA02) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings (AC9E7LA08) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | identify and explore ideas, points of view, characters, events and/or issues in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and/or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E7LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | form an opinion about characters, settings and events in texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others’ opinions and justifying a response (AC9E7LE02) explain the ways that literary devices and language features such as dialogue, and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts (AC9E7LE03) discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage (AC9E7LE04) |
| Examining literature | identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives (AC9E7LE05) identify and explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry (AC9E7LE06) |
| Creating literature | create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts (AC9E7LE07) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts (AC9E7LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas (AC9E7LY05) |
| Creating texts | plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, selecting subject matter, and using text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features as appropriate to convey information, ideas and opinions in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical (AC9E7LY06) plan, create, rehearse and deliver presentations for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical, by selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and using features of voice including volume, tone, pitch and pace (AC9E7LY07) |
| Word knowledge | understand how to use spelling rules and word origins; for example, Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes and spelling patterns to learn new words and how to spell them (AC9E7LY08) |
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