English · Year 6

Understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase AC9E6LA01 understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias AC9E6LA02

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 AC9E6LA03 Understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations AC9E6LA04

Understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas AC9E6LA05 Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups AC9E6LA06 Identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning AC9E6LA07 Identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole AC9E6LA08 Understand how to use the comma for lists, to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause, and in dialogue AC9E6LA09

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 AC9E6LE01

Identify similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes or plots AC9E6LE02

Identify and explain characteristics that define an author's individual style AC9E6LE03 Explain the way authors use sound and imagery to create meaning and effect in poetry AC9E6LE04 Create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices AC9E6LE05

Examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created AC9E6LY01

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 AC9E6LY02

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences AC9E6LY03 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 AC9E6LY04 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 AC9E6LY05

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 AC9E6LY06 Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include information, arguments and details that develop a theme or idea, organising ideas using precise topic-specific and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features AC9E6LY07

Use phonic knowledge of common and less common grapheme–phoneme relationships to read and write increasingly complex words AC9E6LY08 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 AC9E6LY09