AC9E5LA03
Year 5
English
AC9E5LA03 | Year 5 English: Text structure and organisation
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor describe how spoken, written and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts
Strand
Language
Substrand
Text structure and organisation
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 5 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration becoming familiar with the typical stages and language features of types of texts such as narrative, procedure, arguments, explanation, discussion and informative texts, and how they can be composed in written, digital and multimedia forms to achieve their purpose
- • Elaboration recognising that paragraphs vary in their function and how they are organised in a text and between different types of texts; for example, the differences between paragraphs in a narrative, an argument and a procedure
- • Elaboration describing the stages and phases, and purposes of narratives, historical recounts, procedural recounts, causal explanations, discussions of alternative positions on an issue, information reports, reviews and types of poems
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They use different text structures to organise, develop and link ideas.See it on the standard page →
- They use language features including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.See it on the standard page →
- They explain how ideas are developed including through characters, settings and/or events, and how texts reflect contexts.See it on the standard page →
- They explain how characteristic text structures support the purpose of texts.See it on the standard page →
- They explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features contribute to the effect and meaning of a text.See it on the standard page →
- They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing and expanding on ideas with supporting details from topics or texts.See it on the standard page →
- They use paragraphs to organise, develop and link ideas.See it on the standard page →
- They use language features including complex sentences, tenses, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features.See it on the standard page →