AC9E1LA01 – understand how language, facial expressions and gestures are used to interact with others when asking for and providing information, making offers, exclaiming, requesting and giving commands
AC9E1LA02 – explore language to provide reasons for likes, dislikes and preferences
Text structure and organisation
AC9E1LA03 – explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
AC9E1LA04 – explore how repetition, rhyme and rhythm create cohesion in simple poems, chants and songs
AC9E1LA05 – understand how print and screen texts are organised using features such as page numbers, tables of content, headings and titles, navigation buttons, swipe screens, verbal commands, links and images
Language for expressing and developing ideas
AC9E1LA06 – understand that a simple sentence consists of a single independent clause representing a single event or idea
AC9E1LA07 – understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
AC9E1LA08 – compare how images in different types of texts contribute to meaning
AC9E1LA09 – recognise the vocabulary of learning area topics
AC9E1LA10 – understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns