Foundation Year 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 three strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, …
Foundation Year | 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 Foundation Year
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of the Foundation year, students use predicting and questioning strategies to make meaning from texts. They recall one or two events from texts with familiar topics. They understand that there …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standard | Foundation Year | 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
ACELA1778
Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patterns
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1778 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1426
Understand that English is one of many languages spoken in Australia and that different languages may be spoken by family, classmates and community
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1426 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1818
Understand that words are units of meaning and can be made of more than one meaningful part
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1818 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1459
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1459 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1822
Segment consonant blends or clusters into separate phonemes at the beginnings and ends of one syllable words
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1822 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1507
Understand the difference between main and subordinate clauses and that a complex sentence involves at least one subordinate clause
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1507 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1471
Understand how to use knowledge of digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words including some compound words
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1471 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1487
Understand that Standard Australian English is one of many social dialects used in Australia, and that while it originated in England it has been influenced by many other languages
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1487 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1832
imitating a characteristic piece of speech or dialogue, or the attitude or expression of favourite or humorous characters in texts
Elaboration | ACELT1832 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1695
revising written texts: editing for grammatical and spelling accuracy and clarity of the text, to improve the connection between ideas and the overall flow of the piece
Elaboration | ACELY1695 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1824
Use most letter-sound matches including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, letter clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllable
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1824 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELY1784
learning to ask questions and provide answers that are more than one or two words
Elaboration (1) | ACELY1784 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACELY1650
relating one or two key facts from informative texts
Elaboration (3) | ACELY1650 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1778
writing one-syllable words containing known blends, for example 'bl' and 'st'
Elaboration | ACELA1778 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1649
navigating a text correctly, starting at the right place and reading in the right direction, returning to the next line as needed, matching one spoken word to one written word
Elaboration | ACELY1649 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum