Australian Curriculum • Year 6 • English
Year 6 English Curriculum Australia: Reading, Writing and Language
Year 6 English expects students to read more critically, compare perspectives and create sustained texts with greater control. Vocabulary, figurative language, evidence, cohesion and editing become increasingly important.
Read for viewpoint and effect
Students should identify not only what a text says but how language and structure shape the reader’s response. Ask them to compare perspectives and support interpretations with details from the text.
Write sustained, connected responses
Planning becomes increasingly valuable as texts grow longer. Students should organise paragraphs around a clear purpose, select evidence or detail and revise for cohesion. Editing should improve meaning and style as well as spelling and punctuation.
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Australian Curriculum v9
Year 6 English curriculum codes at a glance
This guide is linked to the exact Australian Curriculum v9 content descriptions used by SkillrHub. There are 23 Year 6 English curriculum codes in this subject. Use the code list below to move from the broad year-level overview to the exact skill a student is learning.
Language for interacting with others
AC9E6LA01 — That language varies as levels of formality and social distance...
understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase.
AC9E6LA02 — The uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias
understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias.
Text structure and organisation
AC9E6LA03 — Explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into...
explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features.
AC9E6LA04 — That cohesion can be created by the intentional use of...
understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations.
Language for expressing and developing ideas
AC9E6LA05 — How embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences...
understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas.
AC9E6LA06 — How ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice...
understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups.
AC9E6LA07 — And explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs...
identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning.
AC9E6LA08 — Authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes...
identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole.
AC9E6LA09 — How to use the comma for lists, to separate a...
understand how to use the comma for lists, to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause, and in dialogue.
Literature and contexts
AC9E6LE01 — Responses to characters and events in literary texts, drawn from...
identify responses to characters and events in literary texts, drawn from historical, social or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors.
Engaging with and responding to literature
AC9E6LE02 — Similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes...
identify similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes or plots.
Examining literature
AC9E6LE03 — And explain characteristics that define an author's individual style
identify and explain characteristics that define an author's individual style.
AC9E6LE04 — Explain the way authors use sound and imagery to create...
explain the way authors use sound and imagery to create meaning and effect in poetry.
Creating literature
AC9E6LE05 — And edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings...
create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices.
Texts in context
AC9E6LY01 — Examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events...
examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created.
Interacting with others
AC9E6LY02 — Interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying...
use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions.
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
AC9E6LY03 — Analyse how text structures and language features work together to...
analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences.
AC9E6LY04 — Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes...
select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, monitoring meaning and evaluating the use of structural features; for example, table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings.
AC9E6LY05 — Comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and...
use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources.
Creating texts
AC9E6LY06 — Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose...
plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features.
AC9E6LY07 — Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that...
plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include information, arguments and details that develop a theme or idea, organising ideas using precise topic-specific and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features.
Phonic and word knowledge
AC9E6LY08 — Phonic knowledge of common and less common grapheme-phoneme relationships to...
use phonic knowledge of common and less common grapheme-phoneme relationships to read and write increasingly complex words.
AC9E6LY09 — Knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and...
use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical words.
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