← English – Year 6
Literacy
Texts in context
- AC9E6LY01 – examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created
Interacting with others
- 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
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
- 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
Creating texts
- 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
Phonic and word knowledge
- 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
Sample Questions — Literacy