Year 1 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 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELT1805
transforming familiar print narratives into short video or film narratives, drawing on knowledge of the type of text and possible adaptations necessary to a new mode
Elaboration (1) | ACELT1805 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | 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
Rationale English
The study of English is central to the learning and development of all young Australians. It helps create confident communicators, imaginative thinkers and informed citizens. It is through the study of English that individuals learn to analyse, understand, …
Rationale | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard English Year 1
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 1, students understand the different purposes of texts. They make connections to personal experience when explaining characters and main events in short texts. They identify that texts …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 1 | 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
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 ACELA1463
identifying the topic and type of a text through its visual presentation, for example cover design, packaging, title/subtitle and images
Elaboration | ACELA1463 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACELY1682
using vocabulary, including technical vocabulary, relevant to the text type and purpose, and appropriate sentence structures to express and combine ideas
Elaboration (3) | ACELY1682 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACELT1622
discussing a text’s intended audience, whether the text is typical of its type and whether it has fulfilled its purpose
Elaboration (3) | ACELT1622 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1426
recognising that some texts can include both Standard Australian English and elements of other languages including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1426 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1428
learning that we use a different tone and style of language with different people
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1428 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1429
recognising some of the ways emotions and feelings can be conveyed and influenced by visual representations, for example in advertising and animations
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1429 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1430
discussing the purpose of texts, for example ‘This text will tell a story’, ‘This text will give information’
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1430 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1432
commenting on punctuation encountered in the everyday texts, for example ‘That’s the letter that starts my name’, ‘The name of my family and my town has a capital letter’
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1432 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1433
learning that Standard Australian English in written texts is read from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and that direction of print may differ in other cultures, for example Japanese texts
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1433 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1435
creating students' own written texts and reading aloud to the teacher and others
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1435 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1786
exploring how the combination of print and images in texts creates meaning
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1786 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1437
discussing new vocabulary found in texts
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1437 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1439
identifying patterns of alliteration in spoken words, for example 'helpful Henry'
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1439 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum