AC9E4LA03 Year 4 English

AC9E4LA03 – Year 4 English: Text structure and organisation

Strand

Language

Substrand

Text structure and organisation

This Content Descriptor from Year 4 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

identify how texts across the curriculum have different language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages depending on purposes

Elaborations

• identifying the typical stages and language features of texts such as narratives, factual recounts, imaginative recounts, biographies, information reports, explanations, book talks, poetry and arguments for a particular purpose
• understanding how and why text structure is important in texts such as sequential and causal explanations, and comparative and part-whole information reports
• recognising that poems have different purposes that influence the organisation into characteristic stages; for example, poems that tell stories, poems that describe and poems that reflect on aspects of life
• recognising the difference between a text’s form such as a poster, email or list and its organisation into stages depending on its social purpose

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 4 ASENGY4

Year 4 English Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 4, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including stories. They share and extend ideas, opinions and information with audiences, using relevant details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts. They use text structures to organise and link ideas. They use language features including subjective and objective language, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features and features of voice. They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They describe how ideas are developed including through characters and events, and how texts reflect contexts. They describe the characteristic features of different text structures. They describe how language features including literary devices, and visual features shape meaning. They read fluently and accurately, integrating phonic, morphemic, grammatical and punctuation knowledge. They create written and/or multimodal texts including stories for purposes and audiences, where they develop ideas using details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts. They use paragraphs to organise and link ideas. They use language features including complex sentences, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features. They write texts using clearly formed letters with developing fluency. They spell words including multisyllabic and multimorphemic words with irregular spelling patterns, using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge.