Key ideas English
Texts Texts provide the means for communication. They can be written, spoken, visual, multimodal, and in print or digital/online forms. Multimodal texts combine language with other means of communication such as visual images, soundtrack or spoken words, …
Key ideas | English | F-10 curriculum
Structure English
Strands, sub-strands and threads The Australian Curriculum: English Foundation to Year 10 is organised into three interrelated strands that support students' growing understanding and use of Standard Australian English (English). Each strand interacts …
Structure | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1508
Understand how noun groups/phrases and adjective groups/phrases can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of the person, place, thing or idea
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1508 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1537
Investigate vocabulary typical of extended and more academic texts and the role of abstract nouns, classification, description and generalisation in building specialised knowledge through language
ScOT Terms
ACELA1537 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1651
creating short spoken, written and multimodal observations, recounts and descriptions, extending vocabulary and including some content-specific words in spoken and written texts
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1651 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELT1586
writing character descriptions drawn from illustrations in stories
Elaboration (1) | ACELT1586 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACELA1468
building extended noun groups/phrases that provide a clear description of an item
Elaboration (3) | ACELA1468 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACELA1482
exploring the use of relating verbs in constructing definitions and descriptions
Elaboration (3) | ACELA1482 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1493
creating richer, more specific descriptions through the use of noun groups/phrases (for example, in narrative texts, ‘their very old Siamese cat’; in reports, 'its extremely high mountain ranges')
Elaboration | ACELA1493 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1604
examining the author’s description of a character’s appearance, behaviour and speech and noting how the character’s development is evident through his or her dialogue and changing relationships and the reactions of other characters to him or her
Elaboration | ACELT1604 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1605
examining the author’s description of a character’s appearance, behaviour and speech and noting how the character’s development is evident through his or her dialogue and changing relationships and the reactions of other characters to him or her
Elaboration | ACELT1605 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1694
using grammatical features including different types of verb groups/phrases, noun groups/phrases, adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases for effective descriptions as related to purpose and context (for example, development of a character’s …
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1694 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1508
learning how to expand a description by combining a related set of nouns and adjectives – ‘Two old brown cattle dogs sat on the ruined front veranda of the deserted house’
Elaboration | ACELA1508 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1608
describing how aspects of literature, for example visuals, symbolic elements, dialogue and character descriptions, can convey information about cultural elements, such as beliefs, traditions and customs
Elaboration | ACELT1608 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACELY1704
using appropriate grammatical features, including more complex sentences and relevant verb tense, pronoun reference, adverb and noun groups/phrases for effective descriptions
Elaboration (4) | ACELY1704 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1715
editing for coherence, sequence, effective choice of vocabulary, opening devices, dialogue and description, humour and pathos, as appropriate to the task and audience
Elaboration | ACELY1715 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1531
learning about the structure of the book or film review and how it moves from context description to text summary and then to a text judgement
Elaboration | ACELA1531 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum