K–10English K–10 Syllabus

Apply understanding of the structural and grammatical codes and conventions of writing to shape meaning when composing imaginative, informative and analytical, and persuasive written texts

Demonstrate control of structural and grammatical components to produce texts that are appropriate to topic, purpose and audience

Understand the interconnectedness of textual features for the overall cohesive effect

Apply codes and conventions of written, spoken, visual and multimodal texts to enhance meaning and create tone, atmosphere and mood

Compose 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

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 clarify meaning

Create 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 intonation, 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 gesture, manner and voice to signal the progression and development of ideas through language and structure

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

Understand the uses of active and passive voice for particular purposes

Use tense in a controlled manner that is appropriate for specific purposes

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

Use imagery and figurative language to enhance meaning and create tone, atmosphere and mood, in a range of forms

Use modality for a range of intended effects

Compose texts that combine modes for intended purposes

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 characters, 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 poetic forms and features to imaginatively express ideas and personal perspectives

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

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 sentences to support the articulation of a personal perspective of a text

Compose informative texts that summarise conceptual information

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

Compose persuasive texts that present arguments 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 synthesises 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

Make choices about sentence structure or length by constructing a variety of simple, compound and complex sentences for purpose

Control and experiment with a range of declarative, exclamatory, interrogative and imperative sentences to suit purpose and for intended meaning

Compose complex sentences using embedded adjectival clauses and appropriate placement of adverbial clauses

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

Use a range of linking devices to create cohesion between ideas

Use pronouns consistently and appropriately to maintain cohesion, context and purpose

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

Use a range of verb forms, tenses and modifiers to express aspects of modality

Experiment with positioning adverbial phrases and clauses to clarify meaning or intention, and to modify the meaning of other clauses

Use embedded adjectival clauses to expand on the subjects and objects 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

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