Year 6
English: Language
AC9E6LA01 understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase
AC9E6LA03 explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features
English: Literature
AC9E6LE01 identify responses to characters and events in literary texts, drawn from historical, social or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
AC9E6LE02 identify similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes or plots
AC9E6LE03 identify and explain characteristics that define an author's individual style
AC9E6LE04 explain the way authors use sound and imagery to create meaning and effect in poetry
AC9E6LE05 create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices
English: Literacy
AC9E6LY02 use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions
AC9E6LY04 select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, monitoring meaning and evaluating the use of structural features; for example, table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings
AC9E6LY05 use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources
AC9E6LY06 plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features
AC9E6LY09 use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical words
The Arts: Drama
AC9ADR6C01 develop characters and situations, and shape and sustain dramatic action to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in improvised, devised and/or scripted forms
HASS: Skills
AC9HS6S02 locate, collect and organise information and data from primary and secondary sources in a range of formats
AC9HS6S03 evaluate information and data in a range of formats to identify and describe patterns and trends, or to infer relationships