Year 6 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 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACELA1523

knowing that the simple present tense is typically used to talk about either present states (for example, ‘He lives in Darwin’) or actions that happen regularly in the present (for example, ‘He watches television every night’) …

Elaboration (3) | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACELA1526

applying accumulated knowledge of a wide range of letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words, for example knowing how and why these words are spelt as follows: ‘reliability’, ‘handkerchief’ ‘receive’, ‘lollies’, ‘trolleys’, ‘climbing’, …

Elaboration (3) | ACELA1526 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACELY1816

experimenting with voice effects for different audiences and purposes, such as tone, volume, pitch and pace, recognising the effects these have on audience understanding and engagement

Elaboration (3) | ACELY1816 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACELY1712

identifying and using texts for a wide range of purposes, selecting texts by favourite authors and trying new ones

Elaboration (3) | ACELY1712 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACELY1713

using prior knowledge and textual information to make inferences and predictions

Elaboration (3) | ACELY1713 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELY1714

creating informative texts for two different audiences, such as a visiting academic and a Year 3 class, that explore an aspect of biodiversity

Elaboration | ACELY1714 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum