AC9E4LE03
Year 4
English
AC9E4LE03 | Year 4 English: Examining literature
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor discuss how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions
Strand
Literature
Substrand
Examining literature
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 4 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration examining an author’s choice of language to describe a character’s appearance, behaviour and speech
- • Elaboration discussing what is learnt about a character through dialogue such as their likes, dislikes or personal qualities
- • Elaboration identifying moments in the plot where characters are faced with choices, and commenting on how the author makes the reader care about their decisions and the consequences
- • Elaboration identifying how illustrations contribute to the meaning of stories by First Nations Australian authors
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They share and extend ideas, opinions and information with audiences, using relevant details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts.See it on the standard page →
- They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.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 how language features including literary devices, and visual features shape meaning.See it on the standard page →