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

Structure English

Strands, sub-strands and threads The Australian Curriculum: English Foundation to Year 10 is organised into three interrelated strands that support students' growing understanding and use of Standard Australian English (English). Each strand interacts …

Structure | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 1

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 1, students understand the different purposes of texts. They make connections to personal experience when explaining characters and main events in short texts. They identify that texts …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 2

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 2, students understand how similar texts share characteristics by identifying text structures and language features used to describe characters and events, or to communicate factual …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 4

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 4, students understand that texts have different text structures depending on purpose and context. They explain how language features, images and vocabulary are used to engage the interest …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum

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 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

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 English Year 9

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 9, students analyse the ways that text structures can be manipulated for effect. They analyse and explain how images, vocabulary choices and language features distinguish the work of …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 10

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 10, students evaluate how text structures can be used in innovative ways by different authors. They explain how the choice of language features, images and vocabulary contributes to …

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

ACELY1686

Identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times and compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary texts

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ACELY1686 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1511

Explain sequences of images in print texts and compare these to the ways hyperlinked digital texts are organised, explaining their effect on viewers’ interpretations

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ACELA1511 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1701

Identify and explain characteristic text structures and language features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text

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ACELY1701 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1522

Investigate how complex sentences can be used in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend and explain ideas

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ACELA1522 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1524

Identify and explain how analytical images like figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to our understanding of verbal information in factual and persuasive texts

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ACELA1524 | 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

ACELY1708

Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches

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

ACELY1715

Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices

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ACELY1715 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELA1531

Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause and effect, and extended metaphors

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ACELA1531 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum