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AC9E6LA01
Understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase
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AC9E6LA02
Understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias
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AC9E6LA03
Explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases
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AC9E6LA04
Understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations
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AC9E6LA05
Understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
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AC9E6LA06
Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups
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AC9E6LA07
Identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning
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AC9E6LA08
Identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole
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AC9E6LA09
Understand how to use the comma for lists, to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause, and in dialogue
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Literacy9 topics

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Understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase

Understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias

Explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases

Understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations

Understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas

Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups

Identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning

Identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole

Understand how to use the comma for lists, to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause, and in dialogue

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

Identify similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes or plots

Identify and explain characteristics that define an author's individual style

Explain the way authors use sound and imagery to create meaning and effect in poetry

Create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices

Examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created

Formal and informal interaction skills for discussing and evaluating ideas

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences

Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, monitoring meaning and evaluating the use of structural features

Comprehension strategies to connect and compare sources

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive

Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include information, arguments and details that develop a theme or idea

Use phonic knowledge of common and less common grapheme-phoneme relationships to read and write increasingly complex words

Word origins, roots, prefixes, suffixes and spelling patterns

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