AC9E4LE04
Year 4
English
AC9E4LE04 | Year 4 English: Examining literature
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor examine the use of literary devices and deliberate word play in literary texts, including poetry, to shape meaning
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 defining neologisms and puns, and identifying how they are used by authors to create a sense of freshness, originality and playfulness
- • Elaboration discussing poetic language, including adjectives that engage readers emotionally and bring the poet’s subject matter to life
- • Elaboration exploring emotive language in texts by First Nations Australian poets and authors
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- By the end of Year 4, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including stories.See it on the standard page →
- 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 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 read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.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 →