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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120 Comprehension Strategy Question Cards
A set of 120 open-ended question cards to help students apply comprehension strategies when reading.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Distinguishing Between Real And Make-Believe
A set of comprehension task cards to help students distinguish between real and make-believe when reading.
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Editing and Revising Anchor Chart
Use this editing and revising anchor chart to remind your students of the steps involved in revising and editing their writing.
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Student Reading Chart
A chart to record the number of books your students have read.
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Fact File Sorting Activity
Use this fact sorting activity to teach your students about informative writing.
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Editing Symbols Chart
Use this editing symbols chart to help simplify the proofreading process for your students.
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Descriptive Writing Poster With Annotations
A poster outlining the main points and structure of a descriptive text.
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Biography Template Pack
Download this biography template pack to help students structure engaging biographies with differentiated layouts suited for various writing projects.
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Drawing on Demand - Sporty Spider
An art activity that incorporates both drawing and listening skills.
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5 Information Report Writing Prompts
Use this set of 5 writing prompts to assess your students’ informative writing skills.
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Compare and Contrast - Comprehension Task
A task to use when teaching your students reading comprehension strategies.
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Inference Real Estate Advertisements - Worksheet
A series of real estate advertisement worksheets to use when teaching your students how to infer information from written texts.
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Sequencing Life Events - Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to understand sequence when reading.
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QAR Generic Question Cards
A set of 28 generic QAR question cards for students to use as a comprehension task after reading.
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Male, Female, Baby, and Group Animal Names- Posters
5 pages of posters with animal names.
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Objective Language Worksheet Pack
Use these objective language worksheets to teach your students about the specific language features found in neutral, factual writing.
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Author’s Purpose to Persuade Flipbook
Help students explore the Author’s Purpose to Persuade with this engaging and interactive flipbook.
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Author’s Purpose to Entertain Flipbook Template
Help students explore the Author’s Purpose to Entertain with this engaging and interactive flipbook.
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Combining Sentences Worksheet Pack
Download and use our combining sentences worksheet pack to help your students learn to combine sentences in various ways.
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Author's Purpose PowerPoint
Use this Author's Purpose PowerPoint to teach your students how to identify the author’s purpose in a text.
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Prepositional Phrase Practice Test
Assess students’ understanding with this two-page prepositional phrase practice test featuring multiple-choice, true-or-false and finish-the-sentence questions.
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Free Click or Clunk Worksheet
Support students in monitoring their reading comprehension with this Click and Clunk Reading Strategy Recording Sheet!
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Free Monitor and Clarify Poster
Display and remind students to monitor and clarify their comprehension of a text while reading with this Monitor and Clarify Poster.
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Finding Word Meaning In Text - Context Clues Activity Sheet
Use context clues to determine word meaning in text with a printable Context Clues Activity Sheet.
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Monitor and Clarify Reading Strategy Worksheets
Help students monitor and clarify while reading using these Monitor and Clarify Reading Strategy Worksheets.
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What’s the Heading? Task Cards
Explore the heading text feature with this set of task cards perfect for literacy groups.
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Editing for Incomplete Sentences Worksheet
Use this complete and incomplete sentences worksheet to fine tune your students' editing skills.
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Indefinite Pronouns Worksheet Pack
Use this indefinite pronouns worksheet pack to get your students identifying and using these essential parts of speech.
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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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Summer Paralympic Games Crossword Puzzle
Boost vocabulary skills with a printable Paralympic Sport Crossword Puzzle.
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Picture the Dialogue - Quotation Mark Printables
Improve students’ abilities to write dialogue using correct punctuation with a set of ‘Picture the Dialogue’ writing worksheets.
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Quotation Punctuation Interactive Game
Make learning about quotation marks more exciting with an Interactive Quotation Marks Punctuation Game!