AC9E3LY06 Year 3 English

AC9E3LY06 – Year 3 English: Creating texts

Strand

Literacy

Substrand

Creating texts

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic-specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetically regular words

Elaborations

• gathering information and ideas about a topic in preparation for writing, which may include online and digital sources
• selecting appropriate text structure for a writing purpose, and sequencing content for clarity and to have an impact on an audience
• using appropriate simple and compound sentences to express and combine ideas
• using vocabulary, including topic-specific vocabulary, relevant to the type of text and purpose
• using digital tools to plan, sequence, compose and edit texts
• using print and online dictionaries, and spellcheck to edit spelling, realising that spellcheck accuracy depends on understanding the word function; for example, “there” or “their” and “rain” or “reign”
• checking for correct use of apostrophes for contractions and to indicate possession

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASENGY3

Year 3 English Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 3, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including stories. They relate ideas; express opinion, preferences and appreciation of texts; and include relevant details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts. They group, logically sequence and link ideas. They use language features including topic-specific vocabulary, and/or visual features and features of voice. They read, view and comprehend texts, recognising their purpose and audience. They identify literal meaning and explain inferred meaning. They describe how stories are developed through characters and/or events. They describe how texts are structured and presented. They describe the language features of texts including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and how visual features extend meaning. They read fluently, using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge to read multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns. They create written and/or multimodal texts, including stories to inform, narrate, explain or argue for audiences, relating ideas including relevant details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts. They use text structures including paragraphs, and language features including compound sentences, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features. They write texts using letters that are accurately formed and consistent in size. They spell multisyllabic words using phonic and morphemic knowledge, and high-frequency words.