Australian Curriculum V9 English

Bring Australian Curriculum V9 to your English lesson plans with teacher-created worksheets, games, hands-on activities and more teaching resources aligned to the latest version of the Australian curriculum!

This robust resource collection comes from the expert English teachers of Teach Starter, who have applied the changes made to the F–10 Australian Curriculum in version 9.0 to our popular resources and added even more printable and digital options for teachers!

Curious about what's new for English teachers in V9? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!

Changes to English in Version 9.0

ACARA has called version 9 a "more stripped-back and teachable curriculum," and English teachers will notice there's more of an emphasis on phonics instruction than ever before.

Here are some other important changes that have come in the latest Aus curriculum, as well as some things that have remained the same!

1. There's more of a cross-curriculum priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures.
2. References to 'predictable texts' and the '3-cueing system' have been removed from the new curriculum, along with 'combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge.' Year 1 teachers will notice that the term 'visual memory' is also gone from mentions of reading and writing high-frequency words.
3. The three strands of Language, Literature and Literacy remain as organisers.
4. Content descriptors that deal with students learning word level knowledge and reading no longer appear in the 'Language' section. Instead, you will find them in the 'Literacy' section.