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
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
ACELY1816
Use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions such as voice volume, tone, pitch and pace, according to group size, formality of interaction and needs and expertise of the audience
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1816 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1710
Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1710 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1714
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1714 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1716
Develop a handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and varies according to audience and purpose
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1716 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1618
creating narratives in written, spoken or multimodal/digital format for more than one specified audience, requiring adaptation of narrative elements and language features
Elaboration | ACELT1618 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELT1618
planning and creating texts that entertain, inform, inspire and/or emotionally engage familiar and less-familiar audiences
Elaboration (1) | ACELT1618 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1816
choosing vocabulary and spoken text and sentence structures for particular purposes and audiences, adapting language choices to meet the perceived audience needs, such as recounting an excursion to a younger class or welcoming a visitor to a school f …
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1816 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACELY1816
experimenting with voice effects for different audiences and purposes, such as tone, volume, pitch and pace, recognising the effects these have on audience understanding and engagement
Elaboration (3) | ACELY1816 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1714
creating informative texts for two different audiences, such as a visiting academic and a Year 3 class, that explore an aspect of biodiversity
Elaboration | ACELY1714 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELY1714
using rhetorical devices, images, surprise techniques and juxtaposition of people and ideas and modal verbs and modal auxiliaries to enhance the persuasive nature of a text, recognising and exploiting audience susceptibilities
Elaboration (1) | ACELY1714 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | 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