Handwriting and keyboarding description
This sub-element describes how a student uses handwriting and keyboarding skills with increasing speed, accuracy and fluency to compose and edit text, or complete tasks for different purposes. It describes how a student develops a fluent, legible handwriting …
Handwriting and keyboarding | Writing | National Literacy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
English - Year 4
Creating texts Content descriptions with elaborations: Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements (ACELY1697) identifying and …
English - Year 4 | Informed and safe use of information and devices | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
English - Year 10
Purpose audience and structures of different types of texts Compare the purposes, text structures and language features of traditional and contemporary texts in different media (ACELA1566)
English - Year 10 | Knowledge and understanding | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Consumer and financial literacy: Literacy
The Literacy capability provides rich opportunities for students to develop consumer and financial literacy. This capability is fundamental to students’ ability to understand and analyse any financial texts. Literacy supports the development of the following …
Consumer and financial literacy: Literacy | General capabilities | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Understanding texts description
Understanding texts describes how a student becomes increasingly proficient in decoding, using, interacting with, analysing and evaluating texts to build meaning. Texts include components of print, image, sound, animated movements and symbolic representations. …
Understanding texts | Reading and viewing | National Literacy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Unit 1 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Unit 1 focuses on investigating how language and culture are interrelated and expressed in a range of contexts. A variety of oral, written and multimodal texts are used to develop understanding of text structures and language features. Students explore …
Unit 1 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Unit 2 focuses on analysing and evaluating perspectives and attitudes presented in texts and creating extended texts for a range of contexts. SAE language skills for effective communication in an expanding range of contexts are consolidated. The use of …
Unit 2 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACELT1578
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELT1578 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1657
Make short presentations using some introduced text structures and language, for example opening statements
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1657 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1466
Know some features of text organisation including page and screen layouts, alphabetical order, and different types of diagrams, for example timelines
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1466 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1491
Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1491 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1793
Identify features of online texts that enhance readability including text, navigation, links, graphics and layout
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1793 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1494
Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1494 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1604
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELT1604 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1690
Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1690 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1795
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELT1795 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1705
Re-read and edit student’s own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1705 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1721
Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1721 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1724
Compare the text structures and language features of multimodal texts, explaining how they combine to influence audiences
ScOT Terms
ACELY1724 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1543
Analyse how the text structures and language features of persuasive texts, including media texts, vary according to the medium and mode of communication
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1543 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum