AC9E6LA07
Year 6
English
AC9E6LA07 | Year 6 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning
Strand
Language
Substrand
Language for expressing and developing ideas
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 6 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration observing how sequential events can be represented visually by a series of images, including comic strips, timelines, photo stories, procedure diagrams and flowcharts, life-cycle diagrams and the flow of images in picture books
- • Elaboration observing how concepts, information and relationships can be represented visually through tables, maps, graphs and diagrams
- • Elaboration understanding that images and maps may be sensitive for First Nations Australians and ensuring that a disclaimer is applied or judgement is used about cultural appropriateness and sensitivities
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- By the end of Year 6, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts.See it on the standard page →
- For particular purposes and audiences, they share, develop, explain and elaborate on ideas from topics or texts.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 explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features influence audiences.See it on the standard page →
- 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.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 →