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AC9E6LE03: Year 6 English Content Descriptor – Examining literature
AC9E6LE03 Year 6 English

AC9E6LE03 – Year 6 English: Examining literature

Strand
Literature
Substrand
Examining 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 and explain characteristics that define an author's individual style

Elaborations

  • • exploring 2 or more texts by the same author, identifying similarities; for example, subject or theme, characterisation, text structure, plot development, tone, vocabulary, voice, favoured grammatical structures and visual techniques in picture books, and determining the qualities that characterise an author's style
  • • focusing on a First Nations Australian author and identifying characteristic elements of their writing; for example, images, theme and language
  • • comparing similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and identifying the characteristics that define an author’s style; for example, comparing illustrations in picture books by the same illustrator, noting characteristic features

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.