AC9E4LY06 Year 4 English

AC9E4LY06 – Year 4 English: Creating texts

Strand

Literacy

Substrand

Creating texts

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

plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, using visual features, relevant linked ideas, complex sentences, appropriate tense, synonyms and antonyms, correct spelling of multisyllabic words and simple punctuation

Elaborations

• using research to gather ideas for writing and integrating information from a range of sources which may include those found online
• selecting text structure and planning how to group ideas into paragraphs to sequence content
• using topic-specific, precise and varied vocabulary
• using grammatical features including different types of verb groups, noun groups and adverb groups/phrases for effective descriptions and details according to purpose
• revising written texts to improve the selection of words used to connect ideas and improve the cohesion of the text

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.