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K–10English K–10 Syllabus

Record of changes
Implementation for K–2 from 2023 and 3–10 from 2024
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Content

Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Expressing ideas and composing texts A
Writing
  • Loading  Loading  for personal and practical Loading 

  • Complete writing in scaffolded ways for a variety of purposes

  • Use language appropriate to purpose

  • Loading  stories or personal experiences

  • Respond imaginatively to a written or Loading 

  • Create mood or tone using vocabulary and/or language features

  • Compose, Loading , Loading , analytical or Loading  in response to a text

  • Compose texts using language forms, features or structures to communicate with or engage an Loading 

Representing
  • Select and use a range of Loading , Loading  or technology to represent ideas

  • Loading  a Loading  or multimodal text to convey a message

  • Combine visual and language features to create texts

  • Combine visual and language features to create mood or tone

Speaking

For students who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing, this will be through signing as well as, or instead of, speaking. For students who use other forms of communication to supplement or replace speech, content should be taught through speaking (and listening) experiences, where appropriate, in combination with the student’s preferred communication form.

  • Communicate a personal experience or idea

  • Recognise how nonverbal language can support or enhance meaning in Loading 

  • Understand that Loading , pace and emphasis for clarity enhance meaning when delivering spoken texts

  • Use language forms and features appropriate to spoken texts

Text features
  • Loading  structures of informative, persuasive, analytical or imaginative texts

  • Use scaffolds to create informative, persuasive, analytical or imaginative texts

  • Sequence ideas when composing informative, persuasive, analytical or imaginative texts

  • Compose a text with a central idea

  • Explore different strategies, including writing Loading  and processes, to enhance texts

  • Experiment with texts to develop creativity in writing

Sentence-level grammar and punctuation
  • Create simple, Loading  or Loading  to communicate a message

  • Explore Loading  conventions at Loading  level

  • Apply grammar conventions to create accurate and logical sentences

  • Recognise the purpose of punctuation conventions

  • Use punctuation conventions to create accurate and logical sentences

Word-level language
  • Recognise spelling patterns in familiar words

  • Engage phonological, orthographic or morphological strategies to spell unfamiliar or technical words

  • Use and extend familiar vocabulary to compose texts

  • Explore words with multiple meanings

  • Consider personal experiences to select vocabulary to compose texts

  • Select topic-specific vocabulary to compose texts

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