ACELA1828

Understand how to use phonic knowledge to read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter combinations, including a variety of vowel sounds and known prefixes and suffixes

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELA1828 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELT1606

Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELT1606 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1829

Understand how to use phonic knowledge to read and write less familiar words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations 

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELA1829 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELT1628

Understand and explain how combinations of words and images in texts are used to represent particular groups in society, and how texts position readers in relation to those groups

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELT1628 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1573

Understand how to use knowledge of the spelling system to spell unusual and technical words accurately, for example those based on uncommon Greek and Latin roots

ScOT Terms

ACELA1573 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum

Key ideas English

Texts Texts provide the means for communication. They can be written, spoken, visual, multimodal, and in print or digital/online forms. Multimodal texts combine language with other means of communication such as visual images, soundtrack or spoken words, …

Key ideas | English | F-10 curriculum

Year 9 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 9 | English | F-10 curriculum

Year 10 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 10 | English | F-10 curriculum

Year 8 Geography

There are two units of study in the Year 8 curriculum for Geography: ‘Landforms and landscapes’ and ‘Changing nations’. ‘Landforms and landscapes’ focuses on investigating geomorphology through a study of landscapes and their landforms. This unit examines …

Year 8 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Civics and Citizenship Year 10

By the end of Year 10, students compare and evaluate the key features and values of systems of government, and analyse the Australian Government’s global roles and responsibilities. They analyse the role of the High Court and explain how Australia’s …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 10 | Civics and Citizenship | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1526

using a dictionary to explore and use knowledge of word origins, including some Greek roots, to spell words. For example, the Greek roots: ‘ath’ meaning ‘contest’ or ‘outstanding skill’, ‘pent’ meaning the number five, and ‘dec’ meaning the number ten, …

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

Elaboration ACELA1818

learning that words are made up of meaningful parts, for example ’dogs’ has two meaningful parts ’dog’ and ’s’ meaning more than one

Elaboration | ACELA1818 | 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) ACELY1651

creating short spoken, written and multimodal observations, recounts and descriptions, extending vocabulary and including some content-specific words in spoken and written texts

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1651 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1457

recognising words that start with a given sound, or end with a given sound, or have a given medial sound, for example ‘b-e-d’ and ‘l-e-g’

Elaboration | ACELA1457 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1581

identifying some features of characters and how particular words and images convey qualities of their nature, for example some characters are portrayed as shy, others adventurous

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1581 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELY1672

reading their work and adding, deleting or changing words, prepositional phrases or sentences to improve meaning, for example replacing an everyday noun with a technical one in an informative text

Elaboration | ACELY1672 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELY1678

identifying the author’s point of view on a topic and key words and images that seem intended to persuade listeners, viewers or readers to agree with the view presented

Elaboration | ACELY1678 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELY1679

combining different types of knowledge (for example word knowledge, vocabulary, grammar, phonics) to make decisions about unknown words, reading on, reviewing and summarising meaning

Elaboration | ACELY1679 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACELA1514

understanding how some suffixes change the grammatical form of words, for example ‘tion’ and ‘ment’ can change verbs into nouns, ‘protect’ to ‘protection’, ‘develop’ to ‘development’

Elaboration (1) | ACELA1514 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum