Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4
| Language | |
| Language for interaction | Understand that language is used in combination with other means of communication, for example facial expressions and gestures to interact with others (ACELA1444) (EN1-1A) |
| Explore different ways of expressing emotions, including verbal, visual, body language and facial expressions (ACELA1787) (EN1-1A) | |
| Literature | |
| Responding to literature | Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students’ own experiences (ACELT1582) (EN1-11D) |
| Express preferences for specific texts and authors and listen to the opinions of others (ACELT1583) (EN1-11D) | |
| Examining literature | Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters in different texts (ACELT1584) (EN1-7B) |
| Creating literature | Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication (ACELT1586) (EN1-10C) Innovate on familiar texts by using similar characters, repetitive patterns or vocabulary (ACELT1832) (EN1-10C) |
| Literacy | |
| Interacting with others | Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening behaviours, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions (ACELY1656) (EN1-1A) Use interaction skills including turn-taking, recognising the contributions of others, speaking clearly and using appropriate volume and pace (ACELY1788) (EN1-1A) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Read decodable and predictable texts using developing phrasing, fluency, contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge and emerging text processing strategies, for example prediction, monitoring meaning and re-reading (ACELY1659) (EN1-4A) |
| Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660) (EN1-4A) | |
| Creating texts | Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams (ACELY1661) (EN1-2A) |