Year 1 · English · Literature

AC9E1LE05

orally retell or adapt a familiar story using plot and characters, language features including vocabulary, and structure of a familiar text, through role-play, writing, drawing or digital tools

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Literature in Year 1.

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9E1LE05 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 1.

1. Foundation YearAC9EFLE01share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting on experiences that are similar or different to their own by engaging with texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
2. Foundation YearAC9EFLE02respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their events and characters
3. Foundation YearAC9EFLE03recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
4. Foundation YearAC9EFLE04explore and replicate the rhythms and sound patterns of literary texts such as poems, rhymes and songs
5. Foundation YearAC9EFLE05retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing
6. Year 2AC9E2LE01discuss how characters and settings are connected in literature created by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
7. Year 2AC9E2LE02identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences
8. Year 2AC9E2LE03discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways
9. Year 2AC9E2LE04identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes or songs
10. Year 2AC9E2LE05create and edit literary texts by adapting structures and language features of familiar literary texts through drawing, writing, performance and digital tools