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
Elaboration (2) ACELT1584
discussing features of book settings including time (year, season) and place (country or city, realistic or imagined)
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1584 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | 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 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
Elaboration ACELT1591
describing features of text settings including time, colours used to portray year, season, and place (country or city) and how this impacts on the characters
Elaboration | ACELT1591 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELT1619
identifying and explaining differences between points of view in texts, for example contrasting the city and the bush or different perspectives based on culture, gender or age
Elaboration (1) | ACELT1619 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | 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
Elaboration (2) ACELT1575
comparing experiences depicted in stories with students’ own
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1575 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELT1577
returning to preferred texts and commenting on reasons for selection
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1577 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELT1783
talking about people, events and ideas in texts, enabling students to connect them to their own experiences and to express their own opinions about what is depicted
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1783 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELT1580
using digital technologies to retell events and recreate characters from favourite print and film texts
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1580 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1646
listening for specific things, for example the main idea of a short statement, the details of a story, or to answer a given question
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1646 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1784
participating in speaking and listening situations, exchanging ideas with peers in pairs and small groups and engaging in class discussions, listening to others and contributing ideas
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1784 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1649
attempting to work out unknown words by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1649 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum