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!
- There's more of a cross-curriculum priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures.
- 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.
- The three strands of Language, Literature and Literacy remain as organisers.
- 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.
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Write an Autobiographical Poem Worksheet
Set your students up for success when writing an autobiographical poem with this set of scaffolded, easy-to-follow worksheets.
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Cut and Paste Shades of Meaning Verb Sort
Engage your students in exploring subtle differences between verbs with this set of two cut and paste worksheets.
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Verb Tense Puzzle Pop Activity
Grow your students' knowledge of the tense of verbs with this puzzle pop matching activity.
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My Animal – Digital Report Writing Activity
Get your students to write an information report on an animal using this digital writing scaffold perfect for modelled and shared writing.
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Australian Paralympic Athletes - Biography Banners
Bring the Paralympic Games to life with this set of Australian Paralympian Biography pennant templates.
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Quotation Marks Poster - Single and Double
Display the rules for using single and double speech marks using a printable Quotation Marks Anchor Chart.
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Past, Present and Future Tense Worksheets
Provide students with additional verb tense practise with worksheets focusing on changing verbs into past, present and future tense.
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Shades of Meaning Verb Flashcards
Encourage your students to use different shades of meaning in their sentence writing with this set of shades of meaning verb flashcards.
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Past Tense, Present Tense and Future Tense Posters
Help your students understand verb tense with this set of past, present and future tense poster examples.
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Contractions Folding Cards
Practise making contractions using this set of foldable contraction cards.
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How to Plant a Garden – Procedural Writing Project
Get your students writing high-quality procedure texts with this fun “How to Plant a Garden” procedural writing project.
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Compound Word Worksheets - Upper Years
Boost your students' vocabulary knowledge with printable Compound Word Worksheets for upper years.
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Figurative Language Posters – Onomatopoeia
Help young readers and writers recognise onomatopoeias with a set of onomatopoeia classroom posters.
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Phoneme Interactive Spelling Game - M, MM, MB
Use an interactive spelling game to help your students learn to spell words with m, mm, and mb correctly.
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Vowel Digraph Cover Up Game
Practise vowel teams with your students with this set of three fun partner cover up games.
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Amazing Ants! – Comprehension Worksheet Year 2
Review reading skills with comprehension worksheet for an article about ants from the Year 2 magazine .
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Non-Fiction Text Features Flipbook – Read and Find
Get your students to find text features in non-fiction books with this student-centred flipbook activity perfect for literacy groups.
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Non-Fiction Text Features Task Cards
Get students exploring text feature examples with this set of tack cards perfect for literacy groups.
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Comparative and Superlative Adverb Task Cards
Introduce these comparative and superlative adverbs task cards to your class to grow their understanding of these types of adverbs!
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Spot the Homophones Worksheets
Transform students into vocab detectives with this set of reading passages containing misspelled homophones.
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Persuasive Writing Project (The Best Book)
Help students plan out persuasive writing with this ‘The Best Book’ persuasive writing project.
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Persuasive Writing Project (The Best Cookie)
Help students plan out persuasive writing with this ‘The Best Cookie’ persuasive writing project.
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Homophones Tarsia Puzzle
Challenge your students to identify and match pairs of homophones with this differentiated Tarsia puzzle, perfect for your primary school vocabulary lessons.
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Types of Soils – Comprehension Worksheets
Explore the properties of sand, silt, loam and clay with a set of 4 reading passages with accompanying comprehension questions.
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Nonfiction Text Features – All About Me Project
Implement a text features project with an “All About Me” theme to explore informational text features with your students.
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Word Twist – Word Building Game
Encourage word building in your classroom with this fun Boggle-style game!
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Main Idea Ice Cream Cones Sorting Activity
Practise distinguishing the main idea and the supporting detail with this fun ice cream sorting activity.
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Finding the Main Idea in Fiction Texts Interactive Activity
Help your students easily find the main idea and support details in a fiction text with this interactive activity.
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Main Idea and Supporting Details Posters
Display this set of posters to assist in the teaching and learning of the main idea and supporting detail while reading.
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Make It Plural - Interactive Activity
Help children grasp the tricky concept of pluralising nouns with an interactive Google Slides activity.
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Word Building Bricks - Prefixes, Suffixes and Roots
Build, read and write multi-syllable words using prefixes, suffixes and base words with a fun word-building literacy activity.
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Prefix Puzzles - Match Up Cards
Practise building, reading, and understanding the meaning of words with prefixes with a fun set of prefix puzzles.