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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Viewing Response Template
A useful template to encourage students to make careful observations and interpretations while viewing visual prompts.
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Readers' Theatre - Teaching Resource Pack
A comprehensive pack of 33 readers' theatre scripts, catering to a range of age groups and ability levels.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Recognising Cause and Effect
A comprehensive resource pack helping students to recognise cause and effect.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Finding Word Meaning in Context
A comprehensive resource pack to help students understand how to work out the meaning of words in context.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Summarising
An extensive resource pack to help students understand the concept of summarising.
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Factual Texts Types Posters Teaching Resource Pack
A set of posters about the factual text types, including annotated examples for each.
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Literary Text Types Posters Teaching Resource Pack
A set of posters about the literary text types, including annotated examples for each.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion
A comprehensive resource pack to help students learn to distinguish between fact and opinion.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Compare and Contrast
An extensive resource pack helping students compare and contrast information.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Interpreting Figurative Language
A comprehensive resource pack helping students explore the concept of figurative language.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Distinguishing Between Real and Make-Believe
A comprehensive resource pack to help students distinguish between real and make-believe.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Making Predictions
An extensive resource pack helping students to learn how to make predictions.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Understanding Sequence
A comprehensive resource pack to help students understand the concept of sequencing.
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Transport Theme Phonics Resource Pack
A collection of hands-on activities and games targeted at upper years students who would benefit from consolidating their knowledge of phonics.
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NAIDOC Week 2021 Teaching Resource Pack
A NAIDOC Week 2021 teaching resource pack that contains activities, worksheets and information for your students.
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NAIDOC Week Land Rights Teaching Resource Pack
Wingaru Education has put together a timeline of Aboriginal land rights events. From the time of Cook’s intrusive exploration and the subsequent invasion by the First Fleet, land has been taken from Aboriginal People against their will. There are a number of ways to delve into this topic with your class.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Recalling Facts and Details
A comprehensive resource pack helping students learn how to recall facts and details.
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What's The Story With Stories?
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Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Unit Plan
This English unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualising and summarising to upper primary students, with a focus on literary texts.
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Narrative Texts - Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of narrative texts.
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Narrative Features - Building a Character
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use descriptive language effectively to build a character.
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Narrative Texts - Text Structure
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of narrative texts.
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Convince Me, If You Can!
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Writing a Narrative - Shared Writing
A 60 minute lesson in which students will write a narrative, in pairs, using appropriate text structure, language and features.
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Writing a Narrative - Sensational Story Starters
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate exciting, attention-grabbing methods of starting a story.
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Narrative Features - Developing a Plot
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop a plot for a narrative which includes a setting, characters and a problem to be solved.
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Narrative Features - Creating a Setting
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use descriptive language effectively to create a narrative setting.
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Persuasive Texts - Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of persuasive texts.
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Shared Writing - Persuasive Letters
A 60 minute lesson in which students will write a persuasive letter using appropriate text structure, language features and devices.
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Persuasive Texts - Text Structure
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of persuasive texts.
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Summarising
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of summarising.
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Modelled Writing - Improving Persuasive Texts
A 60 minute lesson in which students will improve a persuasive text by applying knowledge of persuasive language features and devices.