Foundation Year 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 three strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, …
Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Year 1 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 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Year 5 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 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
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
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 Foundation Year
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of the Foundation year, students use predicting and questioning strategies to make meaning from texts. They recall one or two events from texts with familiar topics. They understand that there …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standard | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard English Year 1
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 1, students understand the different purposes of texts. They make connections to personal experience when explaining characters and main events in short texts. They identify that texts …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard English Year 2
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 2, students understand how similar texts share characteristics by identifying text structures and language features used to describe characters and events, or to communicate factual …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 2 | 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 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
ACELT1783
Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts
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ACELT1783 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1578
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
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ACELT1578 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1581
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images
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ACELT1581 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1582
Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students' own experiences
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ACELT1582 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1584
Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters in different texts
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ACELT1584 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1832
Innovate on familiar texts by using similar characters, repetitive patterns or vocabulary
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ACELT1832 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1469
Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words
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ACELA1469 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum