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 5
- EN5-ECB-01
uses processes of planning, monitoring, revising and reflecting to purposefully develop and refine composition of texts
Engage with model texts to develop and refine features, structures and stylistic approaches in own work
Research, summarise, evaluate and synthesise information and perspectives from different sources to generate new ideas and create detailed and informed texts
Develop an effective thesis for extended analytical and persuasive texts that is based on critical thinking about a text or topic
Plan a progressive sequence of arguments or ideas, and set goals at conceptual, whole text and paragraph levels
Produce co-constructed complex texts to represent a diversity of ideas and values
Select from a range of collaborative drafting strategies and feedback processes to improve clarity, meaning and effect in texts
Reflect on own texts, using technical vocabulary to explain and evaluate authorial decisions appropriate to the target audience and specific purpose
Discuss the pleasures, challenges and successes experienced in the processes of understanding and composing
Evaluate the effectiveness of compositional choices in writing that have been influenced by elements of other texts, using specific examples
Evaluate own ability to plan, monitor and revise during the composition process, and how this can improve clarity, cohesion and effect