AC9E6LA08
Year 6
English
AC9E6LA08 | Year 6 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole
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 exploring how figurative language; for example, metaphors, personification and idioms, can be used to create vivid and less predictable shades of meaning
- • Elaboration identifying authors’ use of vivid and emotive vocabulary in persuasive texts; for example, the vocabulary used in reviews
- • Elaboration discussing texts, using vocabulary to name text structure, literary devices and language features; for example, using words that name the literary device used in a poem
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 →
- 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 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 →