Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority

Comprehending Texts through Listening:

Composing Text Through Speaking

Composing Texts through Viewing and Reading


Composing Texts through Writing and Creating

Text Knowledge:

LS 6 (i) - Identify different purposes for listening and
speaking, select and modify text structures and language
features for the chosen content and context.

LS 6 (ii) - Plan, research, rehearse and deliver spoken
presentations specific to learning areas by: selecting and
sequencing researched content, refining ideas and language
choices and selecting multimodal resources to influence
audiences to accept a point of view.

LS 6 (iii) - Communicate to: interpret and evaluate
information relevant to opinions, clarify, question and
extend ideas, develop arguments, interrogate ideas and
information, interpret and analyse learning area language
and identify subjective (exemplifying speakers thinking),
objective (information and ideas based on fact), evaluative
language and bias.

Comprehension:

LS 6 (iv) - Compose and contribute in different groups and
settings by choosing and responding to spoken language
features and non-verbal cues, including selecting
vocabulary to create detailed and accurate descriptions.


Text Knowledge:

VR 6 (ii) - View and read written, visual and multimodal
learning area texts that :use contents, home pages and
subpages, glossaries, full indexes, and supporting details to
enhance readability, contain new information that requires
reading and research to build background knowledge and
connect relationships between ideas and concepts.

Comprehension:

VR 6 (iii) - Use text-processing strategies when viewing and
reading, including: connecting to prior knowledge about the
author and specific learning area content, questioning,
crosschecking and reviewing texts to identify point of view
and using literal and inferred information to draw
conclusions about significant concepts, arguments or
descriptions.

VR 6 (iv) - Independently view and read and demonstrate
understanding of learning area texts by: synthesising and
comparing information and ideas within and between texts,
comparing texts that represent ideas and events in different
ways to determine similarities and differences, analysing
information and supplying evidence from interrelated parts
of texts and evaluating and summarising point of view.








Text Knowledge:

WC 6 (i) - Identify the purpose, content, context, text
structure and writerreader relationships when writing and
creating learning area texts.

WC 6 (iii) - Plan, draft and publish texts using strategies
including: sourcing reliable information and recording
detailed notes, using features such as full indexes and
paragraphs that aid navigation and editing for content,
language, visual choices and to enhance meaning.

Grammar Knowledge:

WC 6 (iv) - Write paragraphs that maintain the pace or
sense of texts, including using headings, subheadings and
logical structures that support the purpose.

WC 6 (v) - Maintain meaning across paragraphs and short
texts by: selecting sentence structures to link relationships
within and between paragraphs, using word groups and
phrases, omitting and replacing words, using subjective,
objective or evaluative language and selecting connectives
to link forward or back to ideas in the text.





LS 6 (v) - Use interaction and communication skills to
contribute to informal debates and discussions by:
interrogating and analysing ideas, evaluating information
and comparing solutions, repairing breakdowns in
discussion and offering explanations and describing
processes.

Grammar Knowledge:

LS 6 (vi) - Use words and word groups in complex
sentences, including nominalisations (a process for forming
nouns from verbs or adjectives) to identify or refer to ideas,
concepts, people, places and objects and use verb tenses
that locate events in time.

Word Knowledge:

LS 6 (vii) - Use learning area vocabulary to specify content
and present opinions.


Grammar Knowledge:

VR 6 (v) - Identify and describe words and word groups that:
represent ideas and relationships in sentences, including
extended noun groups and phrases and extend ideas and
show relationships.

Word Knowledge:

VR 6 (vi) - Independently read with fluency: learning area
specific vocabulary and words of significance used to define
concepts or ideas.

VR 6 (vii) - Predict and confirm the meaning of unfamiliar
words and decode them using and combining cues including
knowledge about word origins, base words, prefixes and
suffixes.











WC 6 (vi) - Use words and word groups including: noun
groups, phrases and adjectives to create effective, detailed
and accurate descriptions, adverbs and phrases to show
time, place and cause and verbs and adverbs to intensify
meanings, expand and sharpen ideas.

WC 6 (vii) - Write using sentence structures, that include
sentence fragments and single words, to emphasise, extend
and explain ideas and information.