K–10English K–10 Syllabus
English for K−2
The new syllabus must now be taught in Kindergarten to Year 2 in all NSW primary schools.
English for 3−10
The new syllabus is to be taught in Years 3 to 10 from 2024.
2023 Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2024 Start teaching the new syllabus
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual circumstances.
Content
Stage 1
- EN1-OLC-01
communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Content in Oral language and communication focuses on speaking and listening. For some students who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing, this will be through signing and watching Auslan as well as, or instead of, speaking and listening. Complementary content has been provided as alternative means to demonstrate aspects of the outcome 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 forms. Teachers use the content for alternative communication forms in combination with the content for oral language to meet the needs of individual students.
Understand that oral language can be used in combination with nonverbal communication
Understand when a message is not clear and ask questions and/or gesture to elicit support and/or seek clarification
Follow extended instructions that contain connectives and conjunctions
Listen to or engage with texts for enjoyment and recognise that their own experience can shape their ideas and opinions of texts
Respond to information by asking relevant questions to extend their own and others' knowledge
Initiate, listen and/or respond in partner and group conversations
Interact to evaluate ideas and refine meaning
Use a range of strategies for effective dialogue and manage digression from a topic
Incorporate extended sentences (simple, compound, complex) during dialogue
Organise key ideas in logical sequence
Use adjectives and adverbs to elaborate and/or provide some supporting details or justifications and express causal relationships
Use tense correctly to discuss past, present and future events
Link or compare ideas when interacting
Recite poems and rhymes
Recount narratives with key components
Adapt a narrative for a particular audience
Deliver a planned narrative to an audience for specific contexts and purposes
Communicate extended ideas or sentences using gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech, during dialogue
Communicate ideas in the past, present and future using gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech
Use gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech, to link or compare ideas
Use gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech, to engage with poems and rhymes
Recount a narrative with key components using gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech
Adapt a narrative for a particular audience using gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech
Use gestures, symbols, signs, in combination with or in place of speech to deliver a planned narrative to an audience for specific contexts and purposes