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.
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 contexts.
Content
Stage 5
- EN5-URA-01
analyses how meaning is created through the use and interpretation of increasingly complex language forms, features and structures
Analyse how contextual, creative and unconscious influences shape the composition, understanding and interpretation of all representations
Use metalanguage effectively to analyse how meaning is constructed by linguistic and stylistic elements in texts
Analyse how language forms, features and structures, specific or conventional to a text’s medium, context, purpose and audience, shape meaning, and experiment with this understanding through written, spoken, visual and multimodal responses
Explain how texts use, adapt or subvert textual conventions across a range of modes and media to shape new meanings, and explore this in own texts
Analyse how figurative language and devices can be used to represent complex ideas, thoughts and feelings to contribute to larger patterns of meaning in texts, and experiment with this in own texts
Analyse how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors use figurative language and devices to represent culture, identity and experience
Examine elements of focalisation, such as omniscience, limitations, indirect speech, tone, reliability and multiple narrators, and how these interact to shape perceptions of meaning in texts, and apply this in own texts
Recognise the difference between the actual author and authorial voice in texts and use this understanding to create texts with other kinds of imagined authors
Analyse how engaging, dynamic and complex characters are constructed in texts using language features and structures, and use these features and structures in own texts
Explore how characters in texts can be lifelike constructions with whom audiences establish intellectual and emotional connections, and can be perceived to reflect, challenge or subvert particular values and attitudes
Analyse how characters can serve structural roles in narrative, such as foils and drivers of action and conflict, and manipulate these ideas when composing own texts
Analyse how narrative conventions vary across genres, modes, media and contexts and how they can be used to represent ideas and values and shape responses, and apply this understanding in own texts
Explore how narratives can represent and shape personal and shared identities, values and experiences