AC9E1LA03
Official content description
explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
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What Year 1 English students should achieve
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- By the end of Year 1, students interact with others, and listen to and create short spoken texts including recounts of stories.
- They create short written and/or multimodal texts including recounts of stories with events and characters.
- They report information and experiences, and express opinions.
- They read, view and comprehend texts, monitoring meaning and making connections between the depiction of characters, settings and events, and to personal experiences.
- Ideas in their texts may be informative or imaginative and include a small number of details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts.
- They use topic-specific vocabulary.
The Language progression either side of AC9E1LA03
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Taught before · Foundation
Builds towards · Year 2
- AC9E2LA01investigate how interpersonal language choices vary depending on the context, including the different roles taken on in interactions
- AC9E2LA02explore how language can be used for appreciating texts and providing reasons for preferences
- AC9E2LA03identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes
Other Year 1 Language codes
- AC9E1LA01understand how language, facial expressions and gestures are used to interact with others when asking for and providing information, making offers, exclaiming, requesting and giving commands
- AC9E1LA02explore language to provide reasons for likes, dislikes and preferences
- AC9E1LA04explore how repetition, rhyme and rhythm create cohesion in simple poems, chants and songs
- AC9E1LA05understand how print and screen texts are organised using features such as page numbers, tables of content, headings and titles, navigation buttons, swipe screens, verbal commands, links and images
- AC9E1LA06understand that a simple sentence consists of a single independent clause representing a single event or idea
- AC9E1LA07understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
- AC9E1LA08compare how images in different types of texts contribute to meaning
- AC9E1LA09recognise the vocabulary of learning area topics
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