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
ACELA1515
Understand that different social and geographical dialects or accents are used in Australia in addition to Standard Australian English
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1515 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1517
Understand the uses of objective and subjective language and bias
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1517 | Content Descriptions | 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
ACELA1525
Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion
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ACELA1525 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1615
Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts
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ACELT1615 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1617
Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse
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ACELT1617 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1711
Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text
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ACELY1711 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1518
Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects
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ACELA1518 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1800
Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELT1800 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1714
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience
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ACELY1714 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1515
recognising that all languages and dialects are of equal value, although we use different ones in different contexts, for example the use of Standard Australian English, Aboriginal English and forms of Creole used by some Torres Strait Islander groups …
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1515 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1516
identify and appreciate differences in language used in diverse family settings
Elaboration | ACELA1516 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1801
identify how authors use language to position the reader and give reasons
Elaboration | ACELY1801 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1525
identifying (for example from reviews) the ways in which evaluative language is used to assess the qualities of the various aspects of the work in question
Elaboration | ACELA1525 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1617
identifying how language choice and imagery build emotional connection and engagement with the story or theme
Elaboration | ACELT1617 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1800
selecting and using sensory language to convey a vivid picture of places, feelings and events in a semi-structured verse form
Elaboration | ACELT1800 | 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 (4) ACELA1523
knowing that there are various ways in English to refer to future time, for example auxiliary ‘will’, as in ‘She will call you tomorrow’; present tense, as in ‘Tomorrow I leave for Hobart’; and adverbials of time, as …
Elaboration (4) | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1618
creating narratives in written, spoken or multimodal/digital format for more than one specified audience, requiring adaptation of narrative elements and language features
Elaboration | ACELT1618 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum