AC9E6LA02 Year 6 English

AC9E6LA02 – Year 6 English: Language for interacting with others

Strand

Language

Substrand

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 the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias

Elaborations

• identifying language choices that evoke emotion and judgements in direct and indirect ways, and how they are used to persuade different audiences to take a position and/or action
• understanding when to share feelings and opinions; for example, in a personal recount, and when to remain more objective; for example, in a factual recount
• differentiating between reporting the facts; for example, in a factual recount or unedited photograph, and providing a commentary; for example, in an editorial

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.