K–10English K–10 Syllabus

Understand how repetition, patterning and language features used within a text communicate ideas about social, personal, ethical and philosophical issues and experiences, and demonstrate this understanding through written, spoken, visual and multimodal responses

Understand how perspectives are shaped by language and text

Explore how the perspectives of audiences shape engagement with, and response to, texts

Examine how elements of personal and social contexts can inform the perspective and purpose of texts and influence creative decisions

Consider the influence of cultural context on language

Explore how specific elements of languages and dialects, including Standard Australian English, Auslan, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, and Aboriginal English, can shape expressions of cultural context in texts

Understand how argument in text is constructed through specific language forms, features and structures, and apply this understanding in own texts

Explain how the subjectivity or objectivity of arguments in texts is constructed through specific language forms, features and structures, and reflect on these in own texts

Analyse how engaging personal voice is constructed in texts through linguistic and stylistic choices, and experiment with these choices in own texts

Select and sequence appropriate evidence from texts and reliable sources to support arguments and build authority

Understand how the authority of a text is constructed by the author’s choices in content and style, and use this knowledge to influence the composition of own texts

Examine how audiences can express degrees of authority over meaning in a text

Understand that the authority of a text may be questioned through comparison with other texts

Describe the distinctive rhetorical and aesthetic qualities of a text that contribute to its textual style, and reflect on these qualities in own texts

Examine how different styles can be recognised by distinctive features of language and form in a range of texts

Describe and reflect on how particular arrangements of language features in texts can be found appealing according to personal preferences

Identify elements of an author’s work that represent their distinct style

Understand how the style of a text can be the product of a particular time period, culture or genre