Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | understand that language is selected for social contexts and that it helps to signal social roles and relationships (AC9E5LA01) understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources (AC9E5LA02) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | understand that the structure of a complex sentence includes a main clause and at least one dependent clause, and understand how writers can use this structure for effect (AC9E5LA05) understand how noun groups can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of a person, place, thing or idea (AC9E5LA06) explain how the sequence of images in print, digital and film texts has an effect on meaning (AC9E5LA07) 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 | |
| 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 | 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 | |
| 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 | 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) |
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