Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | understand that a simple sentence consists of a single independent clause representing a single event or idea (AC9E1LA06) understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) (AC9E1LA07) compare how images in different types of texts contribute to meaning (AC9E1LA08) |
| Literature | |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences (AC9E1LE02) |
| Examining literature | discuss plot, character and setting, which are features of stories (AC9E1LE03) |
| Creating literature | orally retell or adapt a familiar story using plot and characters, language features including vocabulary, and structure of a familiar text, through role-play, writing, drawing or digital tools (AC9E1LE05) |
| Literacy | |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures (AC9E1LY05) |
| Phonic and word knowledge | use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and blend these to read one- and two-syllable words (AC9E1LY11) |
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