Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources (AC9E5LA02) |
| Text structure and organisation | describe how spoken, written and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts (AC9E5LA03) understand how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give prominence to the message and to guide the reader through the text (AC9E5LA04) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | understand how vocabulary is used to express greater precision of meaning, including through the use of specialist and technical terms, and explore the history of words (AC9E5LA08) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | identify aspects of literary texts that represent details or information about historical, social and cultural contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E5LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | present an opinion on a literary text using specific terms about literary devices, text structures and language features, and reflect on the viewpoints of others (AC9E5LE02) |
| Examining literature | recognise that the point of view in a literary text influences how readers interpret and respond to events and characters (AC9E5LE03) examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs (AC9E5LE04) |
| Creating literature | create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced (AC9E5LE05) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | describe the ways in which a text reflects the time and place in which it was created (AC9E5LY01) |
| Interacting with others | use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea (AC9E5LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | explain characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (AC9E5LY03) navigate and read texts for specific purposes, monitoring meaning using strategies such as skimming, scanning and confirming (AC9E5LY04) use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas (AC9E5LY05) |
| Creating texts | plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation (AC9E5LY06) plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include relevant, elaborated ideas, sequencing ideas and using complex sentences, specialist and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features (AC9E5LY07) |
| Phonic and word knowledge | build and spell new words from knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations (AC9E5LY09) |
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