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K–10English K–10 Syllabus

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Tell us about the texts you teach: English K–10 Syllabus
We want to hear about the quality texts students read in their study of English K−10.

Content

Stage 4

Expressing ideas and composing texts A
Writing
  • Apply understanding of the structural and grammatical Loading  of writing to shape meaning when composing Loading , Loading  and analytical, and Loading  written Loading 

  • Loading  control of structural and grammatical components to produce texts that are appropriate to topic, Loading  and Loading 

  • Understand the interconnectedness of textual features for the overall cohesive effect

Representing
  • Apply codes and conventions of written, Loading , Loading  and Loading  to enhance meaning and create tone, atmosphere and mood

  • Loading  visual and multimodal texts to represent ideas, experiences and values

  • Select modal elements to work together to support meaning or shape reader response

  • Use digital technologies where appropriate to compose multimodal texts

Speaking

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

  • Use rhetorical strategies to engage an audience and evoke an emotional response

  • Communicate information, ideas and viewpoints using verbal and/or nonverbal language, including gestural features, to enhance and Loading  meaning

  • Loading  a range of spoken, signed or communicated texts that express ideas and show an understanding of audience

  • Deliver spoken, signed or communicated texts with effective control of Loading , emphasis, volume, pace and timing

  • Participate in informal discussions about texts and ideas, including speculative and exploratory talk, to consolidate personal understanding and generate new ideas

  • Use features of Loading , manner and Loading  to signal the progression and development of ideas through language and structure

Text features
  • Express ideas in logically structured and cohesively sequenced texts to enhance meaning

  • Understand the uses of active and passive voice for particular purposes

  • Use Loading  in a controlled manner that is appropriate for specific purposes

  • Effectively orient the reader to a topic in an opening Loading , introduction or thesis

  • Use Loading  and Loading  to enhance meaning and create tone, atmosphere and mood, in a range of forms

  • Use Loading  for a range of intended effects

  • Compose texts that combine Loading  for intended purposes

Text features: imaginative
  • Create imaginative texts for creative effect and that reflect a broadening world and relationships within it

  • Compose texts that offer a cohesive consideration of thematic elements, including the development of a central complication or conflict

  • Create imaginative texts using a range of language and structural devices to drive the plot, develop Loading , and create a sense of place and atmosphere

  • Experiment with unpredictable or unexpected structural features and explore how these can engage a reader

  • Create impact and enhance meaning by making choices about temporal and spatial settings in texts to communicate ideas

  • Intentionally select and use Loading  and features to imaginatively express ideas and personal Loading 

  • Develop transformation skills by reshaping aspects of texts to create new meaning

Text features: informative and analytical
  • Compose texts that include a detailed introduction of ideas, the logical progression of supporting points, and a rhetorically effective conclusion, which reflect a broadening understanding of facts, concepts and perspectives beyond immediate experience

  • Embed textual evidence within Loading  to support the articulation of a personal perspective of a text

  • Compose informative texts that Loading  conceptual information

  • Loading  a central idea, from personal and objective positions, to broaden the exploration of a concept

Text features: persuasive
  • Compose persuasive texts that present Loading  from a range of viewpoints, including their own, and that reflect a broadening understanding of perspectives beyond immediate experience

  • Compose persuasive texts that include an opening or thesis to provide a definition and position, effectively sequenced elaboration paragraphs, and a conclusion that Loading  ideas, restates a position or makes a conclusion or recommendation

  • Incorporate subjective and objective evidence to enhance and support elaboration of arguments

  • Use rhetorical language to shape ideas and express a perspective or argument

  • Provide counterargument and refutation where appropriate

Sentence-level grammar and punctuation
  • Make choices about sentence structure or length by constructing a variety of simple, Loading  and Loading  for purpose

  • Control and experiment with a range of Loading , Loading , Loading  and Loading  to suit purpose and for intended meaning

  • Compose complex sentences using embedded Loading  and appropriate placement of Loading 

  • Control and experiment with aspects of syntax, including agreement, Loading , articles and conjunctions to shape precise meaning and develop personal expression

  • Use a range of linking devices to create cohesion between ideas

  • Use Loading  consistently and appropriately to maintain cohesion, Loading  and purpose

  • Select appropriate Loading  groups for clarity or effect, including succinct noun groups for simplicity and elaborated noun groups for complexity

  • Use a range of Loading  forms, tenses and Loading  to express aspects of modality

  • Experiment with positioning Loading  and Loading  to clarify meaning or intention, and to modify the meaning of other clauses

  • Use embedded adjectival clauses to expand on the Loading  and Loading  of other clauses

  • Apply punctuation conventions relevant to quotations and citing of sources

  • Experiment with applying a wide range of punctuation to support clarity and meaning, and to control pace and reader response

Word-level language
  • Apply phonological, orthographic and morphological knowledge to spell unfamiliar, complex and technical words

  • Select effective, topic-specific vocabulary to enhance understanding and compose texts with accuracy, in a range of modes appropriate to audience, purpose, form and context

  • Make vocabulary choices that draw on, or contribute to, stylistic features of writing and influence meaning

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