Australian Curriculum • Year 9 • English
Year 9 English Curriculum Australia: Reading, Writing and Language
Year 9 English asks students to interpret increasingly complex texts, examine perspective and representation, and construct evidence-based analytical, persuasive and creative responses with greater precision.
Develop interpretations, not summaries
Analytical reading should move beyond retelling. Students need to make a claim about meaning, perspective or effect and then explain how language, structure or evidence supports that claim.
Build strong analytical paragraphs
A useful structure is claim → evidence → explanation → connection to the broader argument. The explanation is the key step: students should show how the evidence proves the point rather than assuming the quotation speaks for itself.
Use the curriculum unit to target revision
The Year 9 English curriculum units separate the course into precise reading, language and writing goals. SkillrHub links each unit with Topic Guide, Teacher Slides, Worksheet, Practice and Test.
Craft and edit deliberately
In imaginative and persuasive work, encourage deliberate choices in voice, sentence rhythm, imagery and structure. Editing should remove vague wording and repetition while improving control over tone and audience.
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Australian Curriculum v9
Year 9 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 9 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
AC9E9LA01 — How language empowers relationships and roles
recognise how language empowers relationships and roles.
AC9E9LA02 — How evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices...
understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor.
Text structure and organisation
AC9E9LA03 — Examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language...
examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements, and their combination.
AC9E9LA04 — Investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in...
investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives.
Language for expressing and developing ideas
AC9E9LA05 — How authors vary sentence structures creatively for effects, such as...
identify how authors vary sentence structures creatively for effects, such as intentionally using a dependent clause on its own or a sentence fragment.
AC9E9LA06 — How abstract nouns and nominalisation can be used to summarise...
understand how abstract nouns and nominalisation can be used to summarise ideas in text.
AC9E9LA07 — Analyse how symbols in still and moving images augment meaning
analyse how symbols in still and moving images augment meaning.
AC9E9LA08 — Analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone
analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone.
AC9E9LA09 — Punctuation conventions for referencing and citing others for formal and...
understand punctuation conventions for referencing and citing others for formal and informal purposes.
Literature and contexts
AC9E9LE01 — Analyse the representations of people and places in literary texts...
analyse the representations of people and places in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors.
Engaging with and responding to literature
AC9E9LE02 — Present a personal response to a literary text comparing initial...
present a personal response to a literary text comparing initial impressions and subsequent analysis of the whole text.
AC9E9LE03 — Analyse how features of literary texts influence readers’ preference for...
analyse how features of literary texts influence readers’ preference for texts.
Examining literature
AC9E9LE04 — Analyse texts and evaluate the aesthetic qualities and appeal of...
analyse texts and evaluate the aesthetic qualities and appeal of an author’s literary style.
AC9E9LE05 — Analyse the effect of text structures, language features and literary...
analyse the effect of text structures, language features and literary devices such as extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, symbolism and intertextual references.
Creating literature
AC9E9LE06 — And edit literary texts, that may be a hybrid, that...
create and edit literary texts, that may be a hybrid, that experiment with text structures, language features and literary devices for purposes and audiences.
Texts in context
AC9E9LY01 — Analyse how representations of people, places, events and concepts reflect...
analyse how representations of people, places, events and concepts reflect contexts.
Interacting with others
AC9E9LY02 — Listen to spoken texts that have different purposes and audiences...
listen to spoken texts that have different purposes and audiences, analysing how language features position listeners to respond in particular ways, and use interacting skills to present and discuss opinions regarding these texts.
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
AC9E9LY03 — Analyse and evaluate how language features are used to represent...
analyse and evaluate how language features are used to represent a perspective of an issue, event, situation, individual or group.
AC9E9LY04 — Analyse the organisation of ideas in paragraphs and extended texts...
analyse the organisation of ideas in paragraphs and extended texts, and evaluate its impact on meaning.
AC9E9LY05 — Comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning...
use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to compare and contrast ideas and opinions in and between texts.
Creating texts
AC9E9LY06 — Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising...
plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical.
AC9E9LY07 — Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for...
plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience, using language features, literary devices and features of voice such as volume, tone, pitch and pace, and organising, expanding and developing ideas in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical.
Word knowledge
AC9E9LY08 — How spelling is used in texts for particular effects; for...
understand how spelling is used in texts for particular effects; for example, characterisation, humour and to represent accents and distinctive speech.
Curriculum descriptions are reproduced from the curriculum data used to organise SkillrHub resources. The Australian Curriculum remains the authority for official wording and scope.
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