Year 6 English

The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding …

Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Year 7 English

The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding …

Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

Year 8 English

The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding …

Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

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

Achievement Standard English Year 3

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 3, students understand how content can be organised using different text structures depending on the purpose of the text. They understand how language features, images and vocabulary …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 4

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 4, students understand that texts have different text structures depending on purpose and context. They explain how language features, images and vocabulary are used to engage the interest …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 5

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 5, students explain how text structures assist in understanding the text. They understand how language features, images and vocabulary influence interpretations of characters, settings …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 6

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 6, students understand how the use of text structures can achieve particular effects. They analyse and explain how language features, images and vocabulary are used by different authors …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 7

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 7, students understand how text structures can influence the complexity of a text and are dependent on audience, purpose and context. They demonstrate understanding of how the choice …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 8

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 8, students understand how the selection of text structures is influenced by the selection of language mode and how this varies for different purposes and audiences. Students explain …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 9

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 9, students analyse the ways that text structures can be manipulated for effect. They analyse and explain how images, vocabulary choices and language features distinguish the work of …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1460

Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background

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ACELA1460 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1470

Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose

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ACELA1470 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1668

Identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts

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ACELY1668 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1671

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose

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ACELY1671 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1483

Identify the effect on audiences of techniques, for example shot size, vertical camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segments

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ACELA1483 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1678

Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts

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ACELY1678 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1682

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose

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ACELY1682 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1490

Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience

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ACELA1490 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum