AC9E6LE02 Year 6 English

AC9E6LE02 – Year 6 English: Engaging with and responding to literature

Strand

Literature

Substrand

Engaging with and responding to literature

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

identify similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes or plots

Elaborations

• exploring texts on a similar topic by authors with very different styles; for example, comparing fantasy quest novels or realistic novels on a specific theme
• identifying differences in the use of narrator, narrative structure and voice, and language and visual features, between texts and determining how these influence readers or viewers

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.