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Skills available for Australia year 5 English curriculum

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Australian Curriculum, version 8.4: Language Australian Curriculum, version 8.4: Language
Australian Curriculum (2010): Language Australian Curriculum (2010): Language

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Language

Language for interacting with others
- AC9E5LA01 Understand that language is selected for social contexts and that it helps to signal social roles and relationships
- AC9E5LA02 Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources
Text structure and organisation
- AC9E5LA03 Describe how spoken, written and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts
- AC9E5LA04 Understand how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give prominence to the message and to guide the reader through the text
Language for expressing and developing ideas
- AC9E5LA05 Understand that the structure of a complex sentence includes a main clause and at least one dependent clause, and understand how writers can use this structure for effect
- AC9E5LA06 Understand how noun groups can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of a person, place, thing or idea
- AC9E5LA07 Explain how the sequence of images in print, digital and film texts has an effect on meaning
- AC9E5LA08 Understand how vocabulary is used to express greater precision of meaning, including through the use of specialist and technical terms, and explore the history of words
- AC9E5LA09 Use commas to indicate prepositional phrases, and apostrophes where there is multiple possession

Literature

Literature and contexts
- AC9E5LE01 Identify aspects of literary texts that represent details or information about historical, social and cultural contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
Engaging with and responding to literature
- AC9E5LE02 Present an opinion on a literary text using specific terms about literary devices, text structures and language features, and reflect on the viewpoints of others
Examining literature
- AC9E5LE03 Recognise that the point of view in a literary text influences how readers interpret and respond to events and characters
  - Compare and contrast points of view (5-G.1)
- AC9E5LE04 Examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs
Creating literature
- AC9E5LE05 Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced

Literacy

Texts in context
- AC9E5LY01 Describe the ways in which a text reflects the time and place in which it was created
Interacting with others
- AC9E5LY02 Use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
- AC9E5LY03 Explain characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text
- AC9E5LY04 Navigate and read texts for specific purposes, monitoring meaning using strategies such as skimming, scanning and confirming
- AC9E5LY05 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas
Creating texts
- AC9E5LY06 Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation
- AC9E5LY07 Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include relevant, elaborated ideas, sequencing ideas and using complex sentences, specialist and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features
Phonic and word knowledge
- AC9E5LY08 Use phonic, morphemic and vocabulary knowledge to read and spell words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations
- AC9E5LY09 Build and spell new words from knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations
- AC9E5LY10 Explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word

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Language

Language for interacting with others

AC9E5LA01 Understand that language is selected for social contexts and that it helps to signal social roles and relationships

AC9E5LA02 Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources

Text structure and organisation

AC9E5LA03 Describe how spoken, written and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts

AC9E5LA04 Understand how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give prominence to the message and to guide the reader through the text

Language for expressing and developing ideas

AC9E5LA05 Understand that the structure of a complex sentence includes a main clause and at least one dependent clause, and understand how writers can use this structure for effect

AC9E5LA06 Understand how noun groups can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of a person, place, thing or idea

AC9E5LA07 Explain how the sequence of images in print, digital and film texts has an effect on meaning

AC9E5LA08 Understand how vocabulary is used to express greater precision of meaning, including through the use of specialist and technical terms, and explore the history of words

AC9E5LA09 Use commas to indicate prepositional phrases, and apostrophes where there is multiple possession

Literature

Literature and contexts

AC9E5LE01 Identify aspects of literary texts that represent details or information about historical, social and cultural contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors

Engaging with and responding to literature

AC9E5LE02 Present an opinion on a literary text using specific terms about literary devices, text structures and language features, and reflect on the viewpoints of others

Examining literature

AC9E5LE03 Recognise that the point of view in a literary text influences how readers interpret and respond to events and characters

AC9E5LE04 Examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs

Creating literature

AC9E5LE05 Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced

Literacy

Texts in context

AC9E5LY01 Describe the ways in which a text reflects the time and place in which it was created

Interacting with others

AC9E5LY02 Use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea

Analysing, interpreting and evaluating

AC9E5LY03 Explain characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text

AC9E5LY04 Navigate and read texts for specific purposes, monitoring meaning using strategies such as skimming, scanning and confirming

AC9E5LY05 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas

Creating texts

AC9E5LY07 Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include relevant, elaborated ideas, sequencing ideas and using complex sentences, specialist and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features

Phonic and word knowledge

AC9E5LY08 Use phonic, morphemic and vocabulary knowledge to read and spell words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations

AC9E5LY09 Build and spell new words from knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations

AC9E5LY10 Explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word