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AC9E4LE03: Year 4 English Content Descriptor – Examining literature
AC9E4LE03 Year 4 English

AC9E4LE03 – Year 4 English: Examining literature

Strand
Literature
Substrand
Examining literature

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

discuss how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions

Elaborations

  • • examining an author’s choice of language to describe a character’s appearance, behaviour and speech
  • • discussing what is learnt about a character through dialogue such as their likes, dislikes or personal qualities
  • • 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
  • • identifying how illustrations contribute to the meaning of stories by First Nations Australian authors

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.