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-UARL-01
understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Identify how the language and form of a text vary according to purpose, audience and mode
Identify representations of groups and cultures in a range of texts
Recognise ways that settings and situations are represented within texts
Create and re-create texts in a range of modes and media using understanding of context
Identify the sequence of events that make up a narrative in own and others’ texts
Identify patterns in narratives that set up expectation and aid prediction of actions and attitudes
Identify and appreciate how key messages in narratives evoke feelings
Create and re-create narratives using understanding of narrative features
Identify how characters are constructed through different modes and media and through a combination of modes
Identify how a character reflects their own or other lived experiences
Compare and contrast characters in text
Identify how characters can invite positive and negative responses
Identify the language, dialogue, actions, images or music that create a reader response to a character
Create and re-create characters in texts that demonstrate understanding of character traits
Identify figurative language and wordplay in texts
Identify symbols and images in texts, and how they bring deeper meaning
Create texts that include symbols, wordplay and figurative language
Innovate from studied texts using wordplay and figurative language
Identify phrases in texts that project opinions
Identify how structure and images reinforce ideas
Identify and share how their own experience and interests influence opinions and/or interpretations of texts
Identify arguments and the intended audience
Express preferences for specific texts and authors and recognise the opinions of others
Create and re-create texts that include persuasive arguments, using knowledge of text and language features
Create paragraphs that contain a single idea, beginning with a topic sentence and including supporting evidence with elaborations
Identify cultural representations in a range of texts
Express personal responses to the real and imagined worlds that are represented in texts
Adapt a well-known text for a different audience and/or purpose