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-URB-01
evaluates how texts represent ideas and experiences, and how they can affirm or challenge values and attitudes
Analyse how themes can be understood to underpin cohesive meaning in texts, and apply this understanding in own texts
Appreciate the role of the audience in perceiving themes and how these themes can offer insights into an author’s perspective
Understand how the personal perspectives of audiences are a product of historical and cultural contexts
Analyse how texts can be understood or interpreted from different perspectives, and experiment with this idea in own texts
Evaluate how texts can position audiences to accept, challenge or reject particular perspectives of the world, and reflect on this in own texts
Analyse how elements of an author’s personal, cultural and political contexts can shape their perspectives and representation of ideas, including form and purpose
Appreciate how all communication is a product of cultural context
Explain how texts affirm or challenge established cultural attitudes and values in different contexts
Appreciate the significance and value of expressions of cultural context in texts constructed using elements of languages and dialects, including Standard Australian English, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Languages, and Aboriginal English
Evaluate how effective arguments are constructed through combinations of specific language forms, features and structures, and apply an understanding of this in own texts
Analyse how subjectivity and objectivity are constructed in texts to form arguments, and how these can represent particular perspectives
Analyse how an engaging personal voice in texts can represent a perspective or argument and communicate a sense of authority, and experiment with these ideas in own texts
Research, select and sequence appropriate evidence from texts and reliable sources to construct cohesive and authoritative arguments
Evaluate how the authority of a text is continually negotiated and reassessed by readers
Appreciate how authority over meaning in texts, such as multimodal and interactive texts, can be distributed, and is a negotiation between acts of authorship, publication and interpretation
Analyse how the distinctive aesthetic qualities and stylistic features of a text can shape and be shaped by its purpose, and experiment with this in own texts
Evaluate how particular styles in text can be privileged according to context
Examine the way an author’s distinct personal style shapes meaning in their work
Appreciate how the style of a text can represent larger ideas of literary movements and genres