What students learn in AC9EFLE01
This unit helps students build a clear, usable understanding of Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting.... The goal is not to memorise one answer pattern. Students should be able to explain the idea, recognise it in a new example and apply it in a short practice or worksheet task.
- Start with the main idea: share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting on experiences that are similar or different to their own by engaging with texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators.
- Use concrete examples, pictures, oral explanation and short written responses before moving to independent practice.
- engaging with texts that reflect the social and cultural groups to which students belong comparing experiences depicted in stories by wide-ranging world authors with own experiences
- Finish with mixed questions so students must choose the correct strategy rather than copy the last example.
Curriculum coverage and elaborations
The content description and elaborations below show the curriculum ideas taught in this unit. Items marked as teaching context support lesson planning but may not appear in the initial eight-question activity.
- Content description: share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting on experiences that are similar or different to their own by engaging with texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators (teaching context)
- E1: engaging with texts that reflect the social and cultural groups to which students belong
- E2: comparing experiences depicted in stories by wide-ranging world authors with own experiences
- E3: viewing stories by First Nations Australian storytellers from print, visual, digital and multimodal sources (teaching context)
- E4: engaging with texts that portray Australian family life in different settings across Australia; for example, suburban and remote settings
- E5: identifying some features of culture that are revealed by characters and events in stories; for example, dress, food and daily routines
How to use this unit
Read the topic guide, use the teacher slide for instruction, then complete the Worksheet, Practice and Test. These three activities use the same eight-question unit bank.
Teacher resource
AC9EFLE01 teacher slide
Use this one-page PDF to introduce the key idea, vocabulary and teaching sequence before students begin the activities.
Open teacher slide (PDF)Common mistakes to watch for
- Answering from memory without using clues from the text, sentence or image.
- Knowing the idea orally but not transferring it into reading, writing or speaking.
- Missing punctuation, word order or vocabulary clues that change meaning.
International curriculum mapping
This table gives closest-topic mapping for search and planning. The Australian Curriculum code is exact; overseas entries are broad equivalents because each jurisdiction structures outcomes differently.
| Region | Curriculum | Closest mapping |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | Australian Curriculum v9.0 | AC9EFLE01 — share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting on experiences that are similar or different to their own by engaging with texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators |
| Victoria | Victorian Curriculum F-10 | Foundation English: closest match in Literature and contexts. Use this page as a VIC-aligned practice and worksheet reference. |
| NSW | NSW Curriculum | Early Stage 1 English: closest content focus for Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting... and related outcomes. |
| United States | Common Core / NGSS | Kindergarten Common Core Mathematics/ELA closest topic match for Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting.... |
| England / UK | National Curriculum | Key Stage 1 / Year 1: closest programme-of-study match for Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting.... |
| Canada | Provincial and territory curricula | Kindergarten closest topic match. Canada varies by province, so use this as a broad Ontario/BC-style learning outcome reference. |
| New Zealand | New Zealand Curriculum | Level 1 English: closest achievement-objective topic for Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting.... |
| India | NCERT / CBSE | Kindergarten / Foundation closest NCERT/CBSE topic match for Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting.... |