AC9E4LA03
Year 4
English
AC9E4LA03 | Year 4 English: Text structure and organisation
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor identify how texts across the curriculum have different language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages depending on purposes
Strand
Language
Substrand
Text structure and organisation
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 4 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration understanding how and why text structure is important in texts such as sequential and causal explanations, and comparative and part-whole information reports
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They use text structures to organise and link ideas.See it on the standard page →
- They use language features including subjective and objective language, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features and features of voice.See it on the standard page →
- They describe how ideas are developed including through characters and events, and how texts reflect contexts.See it on the standard page →
- They describe the characteristic features of different text structures.See it on the standard page →
- They describe how language features including literary devices, and visual features shape meaning.See it on the standard page →
- 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.See it on the standard page →
- They use paragraphs to organise and link ideas.See it on the standard page →
- They use language features including complex sentences, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features.See it on the standard page →