K–10English K–10 Syllabus

Identify different purposes and strategies for reading

Select and read texts of personal interest and to gather information for learning

Build topic knowledge, including key vocabulary, and activate background knowledge prior to and during reading

Identify similarities and compare differences within and between texts by making text-to-self, text-to-text and text-to-world connections

Locate, select and retrieve relevant information from a print or digital text and consider accuracy of information presented

Determine the relevance of a text for a specific purpose

Identify different structures and features of persuasive, informative and imaginative texts

Identify and describe how text structure, features and language work together to achieve a text’s purpose

Describe how multimodal features enhance meaning and contribute to salience in texts

Understand that dialogue is a common feature of imaginative texts, signalled by quotation marks or speech bubbles to indicate interactions between characters

Identify the difference between quoted speech and reported speech

Understand that literal information can be sourced directly from a text and that inferences can be made by using multiple sources of information

Use morphemic knowledge to read and understand the meaning of words

Adjust own mental model as reading presents new words and understanding

Use key words from a text to visualise events, characters and settings when making inferences and confirming predictions

Identify the adverbs, nouns and verbs that influence own emotional response to characters

Identify different types of verbs that control meaning

Identify word patterns, including repetition, that create cohesion or effect

Understand that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters

Identify different types of connectives used by the author that support inference

Use knowledge of homonyms to understand metaphor and to support inference

Link the meanings of words and phrases across consecutive sentences to support local inferencing

Clarify and link the meanings of key words across a text to support global inferencing

Identify and describe the difference between subjective and objective language in texts

Understand past, present and future tense and their impact on text meaning

Identify how their background knowledge is used to actively build and adjust a mental model prior to and during reading

Identify where meaning breaks down when reading

Identify and use strategies to repair reading when meaning breaks down

Ask questions to clarify meaning and promote deeper understanding of a text

Make gist statements and record them to monitor understanding

Use information from paragraphs or chapters to group related ideas and support summarisation of the whole text

Reflect on reading experiences and identify texts of personal significance and pleasure

Reflect on own understanding of texts and monitor own goals for reading