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 (6) ACELY1692
finding the main idea of a text
Elaboration (6) | ACELY1692 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1491
Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1491 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1793
Identify features of online texts that enhance readability including text, navigation, links, graphics and layout
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1793 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1494
Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELA1494 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1604
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELT1604 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1690
Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1690 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1691
Read different types of texts by combining contextual , semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and reviewing
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1691 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1697
Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1697 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1694
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1694 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | 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
Elaboration ACELY1697
identifying and selecting appropriate software programs for constructing text
Elaboration | ACELY1697 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1692
making connections between the text and students’ own experience and other texts
Elaboration | ACELY1692 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1491
describing how text connectives link sections of a text providing sequences through time, for example ‘firstly’, ‘then’, ‘next’, and ‘finally’
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1491 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1490
becoming familiar with the typical stages and language features of such text types as: simple narrative, procedure, simple persuasion texts and information reports
Elaboration | ACELA1490 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1491
identifying how participants are tracked through a text by, for example, using pronouns to refer back to noun groups/phrases
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1491 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1695
revising written texts: editing for grammatical and spelling accuracy and clarity of the text, to improve the connection between ideas and the overall flow of the piece
Elaboration | ACELY1695 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELT1602
comparing different authors’ treatment of similar themes and text patterns, for example comparing fables and allegories from different cultures and quest novels by different authors
Elaboration (1) | ACELT1602 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1794
collaboratively plan, compose, sequence and prepare a literary text along a familiar storyline, using film, sound and images to convey setting, characters and points of drama in the plot
Elaboration | ACELT1794 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1691
reading new and different kinds of texts with the use of established word identification strategies, including knowledge of the topic and of text type together with self monitoring strategies; including rereading, self questioning and pausing, and including …
Elaboration | ACELY1691 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum