Descriptors›English›Year 5›Literacy›Creating texts›AC9E5LY06
AC9E5LY06 Year 5 English

AC9E5LY06 | Year 5 English: Creating texts

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation
Strand
Literacy
Substrand
Creating texts

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 5 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration using research from print and digital resources to gather and organise information for writing
  • • Elaboration selecting an appropriate text structure for the writing purpose and sequencing content according to that text structure, introducing the topic and grouping related information in well-sequenced paragraphs with a concluding statement
  • • Elaboration using vocabulary, including technical vocabulary, appropriate to purpose and context
  • • Elaboration using appropriate grammatical features, including more complex sentences and relevant verb tenses, pronoun references, and adverb and noun groups/phrases for effective descriptions
  • • Elaboration writing letters in print and by email demonstrating understanding of audience
  • • Elaboration re-reading and editing their own and others’ work, which may involve using digital tools, for precision using negotiated criteria for text structure and meaning, and accuracy of grammar, spelling and punctuation

Plan a lesson from this content description.

Start free

Achievement standard statements this supports