Year 6 English in the Australian Curriculum

AC9E6LA01

understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase

AC9E6LA02

understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias

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

AC9E6LA04

understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations

AC9E6LA05

understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas

AC9E6LA06

understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups

AC9E6LA07

identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning

AC9E6LA08

identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole

AC9E6LA09

understand how to use the comma for lists, to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause, and in dialogue

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

AC9E6LY01

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

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

AC9E6LY03

analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences

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

AC9E6LY07

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

AC9E6LY08

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

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