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

ACELT1613

Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELT1613 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1518

examining different works by an author who specialises in humour or pathos to identify strategies such as exaggeration and character embarrassment to amuse and to offer insights into characters’ feelings, so building empathy with their points of view …

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1518 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELT1613

recognising the influence our different historical, social and cultural experiences may have on the meaning we make from the text and the attitudes we may develop towards characters, actions and events

Elaboration | ACELT1613 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum