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AC9E6LA01: Year 6 English Content Descriptor – Language for interacting with others
AC9E6LA01 Year 6 English

AC9E6LA01 – Year 6 English: Language for interacting with others

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Language
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Language for interacting with others

This Content Descriptor from Year 6 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

understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase

Elaborations

  • recognising language protocols for formal address; for example, words used to address principals, heads of state and monarchs
  • discussing levels of language such as slang, colloquial, conversational and formal, and how their appropriateness changes with the situation and audience
  • presenting ideas and opinions at levels of formality appropriate to the context and audience

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 6 ASENGY6
Year 6 English Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 6, 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, explain and elaborate on ideas from topics or texts. They use and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They use and vary language features including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.They read, view and comprehend different texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They identify similarities and differences in how ideas are presented and developed including through characters, settings and/or events, and how texts reflect contexts. They identify how texts have similar and different text structures to reflect purpose. They explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features influence audiences. They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing, explaining and elaborating on relevant ideas from topics or texts. They use text structures and vary paragraphs to organise, develop and link ideas. They use and vary language features including sentence structures, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features. They spell using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge.