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

Achievement Standard English Year 6

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 6, students understand how the use of text structures can achieve particular effects. They analyse and explain how language features, images and vocabulary are used by different authors …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELY1710

using technologies to collaboratively prepare a humorous, dynamic group view on a debatable topic, such as ‘Kids should be allowed to read and view what they like,’ to be presented to teachers and parents

Elaboration | ACELY1710 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELY1708

identifying and exploring news reports of the same event, and discuss the language choices and point of view of the writers

Elaboration | ACELY1708 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1518

examining different works by an author who specialises in humour or pathos to identify strategies such as exaggeration and character embarrassment to amuse and to offer insights into characters’ feelings, so building empathy with their points of view …

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1518 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELT1616

exploring two or more texts by the same author, drawing out the similarities, for example subject or theme, characterisation, text structure, plot development, tone, vocabulary, sense of voice, narrative point of view, favoured grammatical structures …

Elaboration | ACELT1616 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum