AC9E6LA03 Year 6 English

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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 examining a text to identify strategies such as exaggeration to create humour
• 3 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
• 4 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

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