Year 4 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 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1794
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings
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ACELT1794 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1686
Identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times and compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary texts
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ACELY1686 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | 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
ACELA1491
Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives
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ACELA1491 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1493
Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases
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ACELA1493 | 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
ACELT1604
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts
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ACELT1604 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1692
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
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ACELY1692 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1828
Understand how to use phonic knowledge to read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter combinations, including a variety of vowel sounds and known prefixes and suffixes
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ACELA1828 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1687
Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and information
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ACELY1687 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1697
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
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ACELY1697 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | 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
ACELY1688
Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently
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ACELY1688 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELY1688
developing appropriate speaking and listening behaviours including acknowledging and extending others’ contributions, presenting ideas and opinions clearly and coherently
Elaboration (1) | ACELY1688 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1492
exploring texts to identify the use of quotation marks
Elaboration | ACELA1492 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1492
experimenting with the use of quotation marks in students’ own writing
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1492 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELT1604
sharing views using appropriate metalanguage (for example ‘The use of the adjectives in describing the character really helps to create images for the reader’)
Elaboration (1) | ACELT1604 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1488
recognising that we can use language differently with our friends and families, but that Standard Australian English is typically used in written school texts and more formal contexts
Elaboration | ACELA1488 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1493
creating richer, more specific descriptions through the use of noun groups/phrases (for example, in narrative texts, ‘their very old Siamese cat’; in reports, 'its extremely high mountain ranges')
Elaboration | ACELA1493 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum