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Achievement Standard English Year 5

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 5, students explain how text structures assist in understanding the text. They understand how language features, images and vocabulary influence interpretations of characters, settings …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 7

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 7, students understand how text structures can influence the complexity of a text and are dependent on audience, purpose and context. They demonstrate understanding of how the choice …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 8

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 8, students understand how the selection of text structures is influenced by the selection of language mode and how this varies for different purposes and audiences. Students explain …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Science Year 3

By the end of Year 3, students use their understanding of the movement of Earth, materials and the behaviour of heat to suggest explanations for everyday observations. They group living things based on observable features and distinguish them from non-living …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 3 | Science | F-10 curriculum

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

Year 8 Science

The science inquiry skills and science as a human endeavour strands are described across a two-year band. In their planning, schools and teachers refer to the expectations outlined in the achievement standard and also to the content of the science understanding …

Year 8 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELT1598

building a conscious understanding of preference regarding topics and genres of personal interest (for example humorous short stories, school and family stories, mysteries, fantasy and quest, series books)

Elaboration ACELY1728

understanding conventions associated with particular kinds of software and using them appropriately, for example synthesising information and ideas in dot points and sequencing information in presentations or timing scenes in animation

Elaboration ACELT1630

understanding that tone (serious, bitter, sincere, amused) indicates attitude to the subject and to readers/listeners, who can identify or judge tone through past experience and language clues in the text

Elaboration (2) ACELA1563

understanding how and why spelling became standardised and how conventions have changed over time and continue to change through common usage, the invention of new words and creative combinations of existing words

Elaboration (2) ACMNA122

understanding that if a number is divisible by a composite number then it is also divisible by the prime factors of that number (for example 216 is divisible by 8 because the number represented by the last three digits is divisible by 8, and hence 216 …

Elaboration (1) ACMSP147

understanding that data can be represented in different ways, sometimes with one symbol representing more than one piece of data, and that it is important to read all information about a representation before making judgements

Elaboration (1) ACSHE022

considering that technologies used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples require an understanding of how materials can be sustainably sourced to make tools and weapons, musical instruments, clothing, cosmetics and artworks (OI.2, OI.3)

Elaboration (4) ACSSU048

exploring how cultural stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples explain the cyclic phenomena involving sun, moon and stars and how those explanations differ from contemporary science understanding (OI.3, OI.5)

Elaboration (3) ACSSU078

researching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ understanding of the night sky and its use for timekeeping purposes as evidenced in oral cultural records, petroglyphs, paintings and stone arrangements (OI.3, OI.5)

Elaboration (6) ACSSU080

recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ understanding of refraction as experienced in spear fishing and in shimmering body paint, and of absorption and reflection as evidenced by material selected for construction of housing (OI.3, …

Elaboration (4) ACSHE192

researching how technological advances in dating methods of Aboriginal Peoples’ material culture are contributing to our understanding of the changing climatic conditions and human interaction with the Australian megafauna (OI.5, OI.9)

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI160

identifying where there is a common understanding in a discussion and using points of agreement as a basis for resolving a conflict or differences, recognising their own emotional reactions when interacting with people who are different from themselves …

Elaboration ACHHS207

posing a key question such as: ‘How were the pyramids at Giza built?’ and understanding that there may not be a definitive answer; identifying related questions to inform the inquiry including: ‘What evidence is there?’ ‘What theories have been devel …

Elaboration (1) ACHHS189

discussing the reliability and usefulness of Martin Luther King’s 1963 ‘I Have A Dream’ speech as a source to assist in understanding the aims and motivations of the US Civil Rights movement

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