11–12English Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus
The new English Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2026.
2025
- Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2026, Term 1
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 11 students
- Continue to teach the English Life Skills Stage 6 Syllabus (2017) for Year 12 students
2026, Term 4
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 12 students
Content
Life Skills
- EN-LS-09
composes texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
- EN-LS-10
uses language forms and features to compose texts
- EN-LS-11
plans, reflects on and revises the composition of texts
Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.
Recognise that photographs, pictures or symbols communicate meaning
Compose texts that offer personal responses to a chosen text
Represent personal experiences and ideas for particular audiences and contexts
Compose texts for different purposes and audiences using appropriate forms, language or visual features to communicate, including workplace and real-life texts
Create multimodal texts to inform or engage an audience
Recognise and demonstrate online communication that is safe and ethical
Identify issues that can occur when creating digital texts and develop strategies to overcome these issues
Use language forms or structures to express ideas
Apply grammar conventions accurately in texts
Use punctuation to clarify meaning
Use a range of sentence structures to create meaning
Use vocabulary for purposeful effect
Use visual or language features to create texts
Experiment with language forms, features or structures to develop creativity
Choose the most appropriate mode to express ideas
Set and monitor personal goals to improve composition skills
Use scaffolding to plan compositions
Use model texts to plan and monitor text structure
Select editing techniques or tools to enhance clarity and meaning in texts
Apply peer or teacher feedback to enhance clarity
Reflect on own or peers’ composition process
Identify personal barriers to composing texts and strategies to overcome these
Reflect on own final composition