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
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 (1) ACELA1457
replacing initial sounds in spoken words, for example replace the ‘m’ in ‘mat’ with ‘c’ to form a new word ‘cat’
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1457 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1459
recognising that letters can have more than one sound, for example the letter ‘u’ in ‘cut’, ‘put’, ‘use’ and the letter ‘a’ in ‘cat’, ‘father’, ‘any’
Elaboration | ACELA1459 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1820
listening to hear that children use letters/sounds (when necessary) to help them read CVC words and hear and record appropriate sounds associated with letters when writing CVC words, for example ‘kat’ for ‘cat’
Elaboration | ACELA1820 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | 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
Elaboration (1) ACELA1523
knowing that adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases can provide important details about a happening(for example, ‘At nine o'clock the buzzer rang loudly throughout the school’) or state (for example, ‘The tiger is a member of the cat fam …
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | 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