Year 4 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 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELT1603
drawing comparisons between multiple texts and students’ own experiences. Commenting orally, in written form and in digital reviews on aspects such as: 'Do I recognise this in my own world?'; 'How is this text similar to or different from other texts …
Elaboration (1) | ACELT1603 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1686
viewing documentaries and news footage from different periods, comparing the style of presentation, including costumes and iconography with contemporary texts on similar topics and tracking changing views on issues, for example war, race, gender
Elaboration | ACELY1686 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1489
identifying ways thinking verbs are used to express opinion, for example ‘I think’, ‘I believe’, and ways summary verbs are used to report findings, for example ‘we concluded’
Elaboration | ACELA1489 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1494
investigating examples of quoted (direct) speech (‘He said, “I’ll go to the park today”’) and reported (indirect) speech (‘He told me he was going to the park today’) and comparing similarities and differences
Elaboration | ACELA1494 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum