AC9E5LY03 Year 5 English

AC9E5LY03 – Year 5 English: Analysing, interpreting and evaluating

Strand

Literacy

Substrand

Analysing, interpreting and evaluating

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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

explain characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text

Elaborations

• explaining how the features of a text advocating community action; for example, action on a local area preservation issue, are used to meet the purpose of the text
• explaining how characters are used to deliver the message in persuasive texts; for example, explaining how characters are used to present persuasive messages about health issues in advertising, considering why characters have been used instead of real people

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASENGY5

Year 5 English Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 5, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts. For particular purposes and audiences, they share, develop and expand on ideas and opinions, using supporting details from topics or texts. They use different text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They use language features including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice. They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They explain how ideas are developed including through characters, settings and/or events, and how texts reflect contexts. They explain how characteristic text structures support the purpose of texts. They explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features contribute to the effect and meaning of a text. 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. They use paragraphs to organise, develop and link ideas. They use language features including complex sentences, tenses, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features. They spell using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge.