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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Adapt a Short Story – Change the Narrative Setting
Explore the role the narrative setting plays within a story with this engaging and fully scaffolded writing project booklet for primary students.
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Blend and Colour Phoneme Blending Worksheets
Get your students blending simple CVC words with this set of blend and colour worksheets.
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Time Connectives Worksheet Pack
Enhance your students' writing with this time connectives worksheet pack featuring 9 scaffolded activities that help young writers master sequencing events and ideas.
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Narrative Writing Craft Packs
Help early writers escape writer's block with this scaffolded narrative writing craft pack.
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Noun Group Interactive Activity
Engage your students with this interactive noun group digital activity that helps them build descriptive noun groups by using the correct order of adjectives.
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Sight Word Mini Books in School Fonts
Explore the tricky parts in sight words with this set of 20 printable sight word mini books.
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Subjective Language vs Objective Language Poster
Display this vibrant subjective language vs objective language poster in your classroom to illustrate the differences between personal opinions and factual statements.
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Oral Retell Sequencing Mats
Explore oral retelling with this set of oral retell sequencing mats for a variety of fairy tales and everyday activities.
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Helpful Honey Bees Worksheet Pack - Year 2 Comprehension
Read and learn about honey bees with a Printable Honey Bees Worksheet Pack for year 2.
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Statement, Question, Command & Exclamation Sentences PowerPoint
Introduce statement, command, question, and exclamation sentences with an interactive teaching slide deck.
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Cursive Writing Worksheets PDF - Alphabet
Practise writing the alphabet in cursive with a pack of printable cursive alphabet writing worksheets.
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Naked Mole Rat - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Read and learn facts about the naked mole rat with a printable reading comprehension worksheet pack for year 4 and 5.
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Coordinating Conjunctions Worksheet
Distribute this coordinating conjunctions worksheet to help your students practise joining clauses with conjunctions to form compound sentences.
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Write Your Own Adverbial Phrases Worksheet
Use this set of differentiated adverbs worksheets to assess students’ ability to add adverb groups into simple sentences.
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Persuasive Writing Project (My Favourite Season)
Explore persuasive writing with this persuasive writing project focusing on a student’s favourite season.
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Dog or Cat? Persuasive Writing Project
Help students plan out persuasive writing with this very common argument, which is best dogs or cats?
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Personal Recount Sequencing Activity - My Broken Leg
A worksheet to use in the classroom when learning the sequence of a personal recount.
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Personal Recount Sequencing Activity - Police Car Ride
A worksheet to use in the classroom when learning the sequence of a personal recount.
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Hansel and Gretel – Comprehension Worksheet
Develop your students' reading comprehension skills with a well-known fairy tale.
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Comprehension - Homework is Unnecessary
A comprehension activity using a persuasive text for lower grades.
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Note-Taking Practice Worksheets
Use this set of note-taking practice worksheets to help your students identify key facts, details and vocabulary when researching information.
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Identifying Informative Language Worksheets
Explore the types of language found in informative writing using this set of three information reports on a variety of age-appropriate topics.
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Blending CVC Word Activity
Use this Blending CVC Word Activity with your students to get them practising blending simple CVC words.
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Exploring and Building Narrative Characters PowerPoint
Use this editable PowerPoint template when teaching younger students about how to build a character for a narrative text.
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Colour By Code - Simple or Compound Sentence Worksheet
Use a Colour By Code Simple or Compound Sentence worksheet to help your students practise identifying simple and compound sentence types.
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Compound-Complex Sentence Test
Assess your students' understanding of compound-complex sentences with a printable Compound-Complex Sentence Test.
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Year 6 Grammar Practice Sheets - Punctuation Concepts
Print and use our Year 6 Grammar Practice Sheets to review a variety of punctuation concepts.
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Context Clues Reading Comprehension Handouts
Use Context Clues Reading Comprehension Handouts to assess your student's ability to define unknown words using context clues.
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Phonics Word Builder Tiles
A comprehensive set of phonemes and their letter combinations to help your students build words.
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Position Word Pictures Matching Game
Download this Position Words Pictures Matching Game to help students master position words through visual, real-life examples.
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Run-On Sentence Editing Worksheet Pack
Practise editing examples of run-on sentences with a printable Run-On Sentence Worksheet pack.
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Dot-to-Dot Alphabet Worksheets
Use this set of 3 dot-to-dot worksheets to get your youngest students practising their recognition of the alphabet.