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 2 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 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Year 3 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 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Year 4 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 4 | 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 9 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 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Year 10 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 10 | 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
ACELA1430
Understand that texts can take many forms, can be very short (for example an exit sign) or quite long (for example an information book or a film) and that stories and informative texts have different purposes
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1430 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1433
Understand concepts about print and screen, including how books, film and simple digital texts work, and know some features of print, for example directionality
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1433 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | 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
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1483 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1623
Understand, interpret and discuss how language is compressed to produce a dramatic effect in film or drama, and to create layers of meaning in poetry, for example haiku, tankas, couplets, free verse and verse novels
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELT1623 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1637
Investigate and experiment with the use and effect of extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, icons, myths and symbolism in texts, for example poetry, short films, graphic novels, and plays on similar themes
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELT1637 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELT1783
using art forms and beginning forms of writing to express personal responses to literature and film experiences
Elaboration (1) | ACELT1783 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELT1580
using digital technologies to retell events and recreate characters from favourite print and film texts
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1580 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1651
using image-making and beginning writing to represent characters and events in written, film and web-based texts
Elaboration | ACELY1651 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1582
discussing characters from books and films and whether these are life-like or imaginary (for example talking animals)
Elaboration | ACELT1582 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum