English Stars was specifically written for the previous Australian Curriculum Version 8.4. As such, the following Curriculum Links identified for this module are related to the previous version of each state curriculum or syllabus.

Refer to our Australian Curriculum V9.0 Alignment Guide to see how English Stars covers the requirements of the new curriculum.

Australian Curriculum v8.4 and Western Australian Curriculum v8.4 content descriptions

• Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (ACELA1491)

Victorian Curriculum v1 content descriptions

• Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (VCELA290)

New South Wales Syllabus (2022) outcomes

EN2-4A – uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on increasingly challenging topics in different media and technologies

Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features:

• use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts (ACELT1604)
• understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (ACELA1491)
• know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters (ACELA1480)
• skim a text for overall message and scan for particular information, eg headings, key words
• identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times and compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary texts (ACELY1686)