Descriptors›English›Foundation›Literature›Examining literature›AC9EFLE03
AC9EFLE03 Foundation English

AC9EFLE03 | Foundation English: Examining literature

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
Strand
Literature
Substrand
Examining literature

This content descriptor sets out learning for Foundation English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration recognising that stories often have similar beginnings; for example, “Once upon a time”, “A long, long time ago” in fairytales or introducing the character: “A girl called Amira …”
  • • Elaboration exploring literature by First Nations Australian authors and their cultural patterns of storytelling
  • • Elaboration identifying how stories are told in poetry
  • • Elaboration identifying typical features of fairytales such as princes and princesses or the moral of the story

Plan a lesson from this content description.

Start free

Achievement standard statements this supports