Year 2 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 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Year 9 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 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Year 10 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 10 | 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
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
Achievement Standard English Year 2
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 2, students understand how similar texts share characteristics by identifying text structures and language features used to describe characters and events, or to communicate factual …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1753
Choose a reading technique and reading path appropriate for the type of text, to retrieve and connect ideas within and between texts
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1753 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | 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
ACELA1549
Understand how to apply learned knowledge consistently in order to spell accurately and to learn new words including nominalisations
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1549 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1690
describing the language which authors use to create imaginary worlds; how textual features such as headings, subheadings, bold type and graphic organisers are used to order and present information, and how visual codes are used, for example those used …
Elaboration | ACELY1690 | 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
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1687 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1570
Analyse how higher order concepts are developed in complex texts through language features including nominalisation, clause combinations, technicality and abstraction
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1570 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACELY1671
using vocabulary, including technical vocabulary, appropriate to text type and purpose
Elaboration (3) | ACELY1671 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1428
learning to ask relevant questions and to express requests and opinions in ways that suit different contexts
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1428 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1430
repeating parts of texts, for example characteristic refrains, predicting cumulative storylines, reciting poetic and rhyming phrases
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1430 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1433
learning about front and back covers; title and author, layout and navigation of digital/screen texts
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1433 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1437
bringing vocabulary from personal experiences, relating this to new experiences and building a vocabulary for thinking and talking about school topics
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1437 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1439
identifying syllables in spoken words, for example clapping the rhythm of ‘Mon-day’, ‘Ja-cob’ or ‘Si-en-na’
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1439 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1438
breaking words into onset and rime to learn how to spell words that share the same pattern, for example ‘p-at’, ‘b-at’, ‘t-all’ and ‘f-all’
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1438 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1819
blending phonemes to form one-syllable spoken words, for example ‘s-u-n’ is orally expressed as ‘sun’ and ‘b-a-g’ is orally expressed as ‘bag’
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1819 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum