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
PDF documents English
Resources and support materials for the Australian Curriculum: English are available as PDF documents. English: Sequence of content English: Sequence of achievement
PDF documents | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1537
Investigate vocabulary typical of extended and more academic texts and the role of abstract nouns, classification, description and generalisation in building specialised knowledge through language
ScOT Terms
ACELA1537 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Aims English
The Australian Curriculum: English aims to ensure that students: learn to listen to, read, view, speak, write, create and reflect on increasingly complex and sophisticated spoken, written and multimodal texts across a growing range of contexts with accuracy, …
Aims | 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
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
ACELT1586
Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELT1586 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1461
Understand that language varies when people take on different roles in social and classroom interactions and how the use of key interpersonal language resources varies depending on context
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1461 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | 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
ACELA1563
Understand that Standard Australian English in its spoken and written forms has a history of evolution and change and continues to evolve
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1563 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1460
Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1460 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1729
Analyse and explain how language has evolved over time and how technology and the media have influenced language use and forms of communication
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1729 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | 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
ACELA1476
Understand that successful cooperation with others depends on shared use of social conventions, including turn-taking patterns, and forms of address that vary according to the degree of formality in social situations
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1476 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1682
using print and digital resources to gather information about a topic
Elaboration | ACELY1682 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1704
using research from print and digital resources to gather and organise information for writing
Elaboration | ACELY1704 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | 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) ACELY1750
applying knowledge of spoken, visual, auditory, technical and multimodal resources (for example sound and silence, camera shot types, lighting and colour) in conjunction with verbal resources for varying purposes and contexts
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1750 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1454
learning forms of address for visitors and how to use language appropriately to ask directions and for information, for example on excursions
Elaboration | ACELA1454 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum