AC9E6LA03
Year 6
English
AC9E6LA03 | Year 6 English: Text structure and organisation
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features
Strand
Language
Substrand
Text structure and organisation
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 6 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration exploring a range of everyday, community, literary and informative texts, discussing elements of text structure and language features, and comparing the overall structure and effect of authors’ choices in 2 or more texts
- • Elaboration examining a text to identify strategies such as exaggeration to create humour
- • Elaboration recognising that texts are organised into stages such as an introduction and that introductions may be divided into phases; for example, the introduction stage of a narrative may begin with a phase that is a “hook” or a flashback
- • Elaboration explaining the characteristic stages and phases in reviews, discussions of alternative positions or historical recounts and identifying any adaptations of typical structures or language features
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They use and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas.See it on the standard page →
- They use and vary language features including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.See it on the standard page →
- They read, view and comprehend different texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.See it on the standard page →
- They identify similarities and differences in how ideas are presented and developed including through characters, settings and/or events, and how texts reflect contexts.See it on the standard page →
- They identify how texts have similar and different text structures to reflect purpose.See it on the standard page →
- They explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features influence audiences.See it on the standard page →
- They use text structures and vary paragraphs to organise, develop and link ideas.See it on the standard page →
- They use and vary language features including sentence structures, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features.See it on the standard page →