ACELA1515 – Understand that different social and geographical dialects or accents are used in Australia in addition to Standard Australian English
ACELA1516 – Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase
Samples: Aboriginal Bush Medicines. Girl Power Builds A Raft. The Brass Compass -Narrative Part 1.
ACELA1517 – Understand the uses of objective and subjective language and bias
Samples: Outback Discovery. Preparing For Bushwalking. William The Conqueror -Biography. Bayeux Tapestry -Information Report.
ACELA1518 – Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects
Samples: Outback Discovery. The Sleeping Outback Giant - Uluru. The Great Barrier Reef. Preparing For Bushwalking.
ACELA1520 – Understand that cohesive links can be made in texts by omitting or replacing words
Samples: Outback Discovery. William The Conqueror -Biography. Bayeux Tapestry -Information Report.
ACELA1521 – Understand the uses of commas to separate clauses
Samples: Outback Discovery. Preparing For Bushwalking. William The Conqueror -Biography. Danish Royal Family. If I Were King.
ACELA1522 – Investigate how clauses can be combined in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend or explain ideas
Samples: Conjunctions. Clauses (main and subordinate). Complex sentences. Clauses – main and subordinate. Editing text.
ACELA1523 – Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverbials
Samples: Relating verbs. Clauses with relating verbs. Prepositions. Progressive verb tenses. Sensing verbs. Modal adverbs.
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
Samples: Outback Discovery. Preparing For Bushwalking. William The Conqueror -Biography. Bayeux Tapestry -Information Report.
ACELA1525 – Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion
Samples: Opinion Adjectives. Shades of meaning. Vocabulary to provide greater precision of meaning.
ACELA1526 – Understand how to use banks of known words, word origins, base words, suffixes and prefixes, morphemes, spelling patterns and generalisations to learn and spell new words, for example technical words and words adopted from other languages
Samples: Synonyms (check, enquire, notice, gather...). Antonyms (important, inferior, exterior, lazy...). Synonyms.
ACELT1613 – Make connections between students' own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts
Samples: Aboriginal Bush Medicines. Girl Power Builds A Raft. The Brass Compass -Narrative Part 1.
ACELT1614 – Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots
Samples: Aboriginal Bush Medicines. Girl Power Builds A Raft. The Brass Compass -Narrative Part 1.
ACELT1615 – Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts
Samples: The Brass Compass -Narrative Part 1. The Brass Compass - Narrative Part 2. The Brass Compass - Narrative Part 3.
ACELT1616 – Identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author's individual style
Samples: Aboriginal Bush Medicines. Girl Power Builds A Raft. The Brass Compass -Narrative Part 1.
ACELT1617 – Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse
Samples: African Animals - Limericks. Timeless Water. The Siren's Song. Most Southern Land. Winter to Spring.
ACELT1618 – Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways
Samples: Narrative Writing Stimulus. Invisible Me. The Giant. Narrative Poster. Antarctic Adventure. Narrative Writing Stimulus.
ACELT1800 – Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice
Samples: Narrative Writing Stimulus. Invisible Me. The Giant. Narrative Poster. Antarctic Adventure. Narrative Writing Stimulus.
ACELY1708 – Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches
Samples: Outback Discovery. Preparing For Bushwalking. William The Conqueror -Biography. Bayeux Tapestry -Information Report.
ACELY1709 – Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions
Samples: Outback Discovery. The Sleeping Outback Giant - Uluru. The Great Barrier Reef. Preparing For Bushwalking.
ACELY1816 – Use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions such as voice volume, tone, pitch and pace, according to group size, formality of interaction and needs and expertise of the audience
Samples: Outback Discovery. The Sleeping Outback Giant - Uluru. The Great Barrier Reef. Preparing For Bushwalking.
ACELY1710 – Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis
Samples: Exposition Writing Stimulus. Discussion Writing Stimulus. Exposition Writing Poster. Exposition Writing Poster.
ACELY1711 – Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text
Samples: Outback Discovery. Preparing For Bushwalking. William The Conqueror -Biography. Bayeux Tapestry -Information Report.
ACELY1712 – Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings
Samples: Outback Discovery. The Sleeping Outback Giant - Uluru. The Great Barrier Reef. Preparing For Bushwalking.