Australian Curriculum and Western Australian Curriculum content descriptions

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

Victorian Curriculum 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 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)