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 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 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

Achievement Standard English Year 10

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 10, students evaluate how text structures can be used in innovative ways by different authors. They explain how the choice of language features, images and vocabulary contributes to …

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

ACELY1652

Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops

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ACELY1652 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1661

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams

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ACELY1661 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1662

Re-read student’s own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation

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ACELY1662 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1823

Use knowledge of letter patterns and morphemes to read and write high-frequency words and words whose spelling is not predictable from their sounds

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ACELA1823 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1672

Re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure

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ACELY1672 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1779

Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes and word origins to spell more complex words

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ACELA1779 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1780

Read and write a large core of high frequency words including homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling

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ACELA1780 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1500

Understand that the pronunciation, spelling and meanings of words have histories and change over time

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ACELA1500 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1513

Understand how to use knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words

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ACELA1513 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1526

Understand how to use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical words

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ACELA1526 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum