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K–10English K–10 Syllabus

Record of changes
Implementation for K–2 from 2023 and 3–10 from 2024
Expand for detailed implementation advice

Content

Early Stage 1

Reading comprehension
Activating word meaning
  • Recognise familiar vocabulary in a text

  • Use known vocabulary to build a mental model of the content of the text

  • Use known vocabulary to work out or refine the meaning of unknown words

  • Ask or pause to clarify meaning of unknown words

Understanding and connecting sentences
  • Identify words that represent who, what, when, where and why in texts

  • Identify conjunctions in a compound sentence, their meaning and purpose

  • Understand how adjectives describe a noun and verbs identify actions in a sentence

  • Recognise how the position of words in a sentence changes its meaning

Understanding whole text
  • Understand that informative and imaginative texts have different structures, features and forms

Monitoring comprehension
  • Stop reading when a break in comprehension is registered

  • Re-read to check if an error was made

  • Self-correct error using phonic knowledge

  • Ask a question or make a statement to clarify meaning

  • Predict purpose, type of text or topic from title, illustration, image and/or form

  • Clarify own purpose for reading a text

  • Use background knowledge when identifying connections between a text, own life, other texts and/or the world

  • Use visual cues in multimodal texts to interpret meaning

Recalling details
  • Recall key characters, events and/or information in text

  • Recall the sequence of events/information in texts

  • Recount the relevant ideas from the text

  • Use information or events from different parts of the text to form an opinion

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