Content descriptions
Language
Language for interacting with others
Text structure and organisation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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AC9E5LA07
explain how the sequence of images in print, digital and film texts has an effect on meaning
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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
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AC9E5LA09
use commas to indicate prepositional phrases, and apostrophes where there is multiple possession
Literature
Literature and contexts
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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
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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
Creating literature
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AC9E5LE05
create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced
Literacy
Texts in context
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AC9E5LY01
describe the ways in which a text reflects the time and place in which it was created
Interacting with others
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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
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AC9E5LY03
explain characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text
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AC9E5LY04
navigate and read texts for specific purposes, monitoring meaning using strategies such as skimming, scanning and confirming
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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
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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
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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
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AC9E5LY08
use phonic, morphemic and vocabulary knowledge to read and spell words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations
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AC9E5LY09
build and spell new words from knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations
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AC9E5LY10
explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word
Other Year 5 learning areas
Questions teachers ask
- What do students learn in Year 5 English?
- The Australian Curriculum v9 has 24 English content descriptions for Year 5. They are listed on this page with their codes.
- How do I plan a Year 5 English lesson for a content description?
- Choose "Plan this" next to the content description. Heapso opens a lesson plan set to Year 5 English with that code linked, so the plan is built around it. You can change anything before Pip writes.