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Year 6 · English · Literacy

AC9E6LY07

plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include information, arguments and details that develop a theme or idea, organising ideas using precise topic-specific and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Literacy in Year 6.

AC9E6LY01

examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created

AC9E6LY02

use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions

AC9E6LY03

analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences

AC9E6LY04

select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, monitoring meaning and evaluating the use of structural features; for example, table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings

AC9E6LY05

use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources

AC9E6LY06

plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features

AC9E6LY08

use phonic knowledge of common and less common grapheme–phoneme relationships to read and write increasingly complex words

AC9E6LY09

use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical words

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9E6LY07 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 6.

  1. Year 5AC9E5LY01describe the ways in which a text reflects the time and place in which it was created
  2. Year 5AC9E5LY02use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea
  3. Year 5AC9E5LY03explain characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text
  4. Year 5AC9E5LY04navigate and read texts for specific purposes, monitoring meaning using strategies such as skimming, scanning and confirming
  5. Year 5AC9E5LY05use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas
  6. Year 5AC9E5LY06plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation
  7. Year 5AC9E5LY07plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include relevant, elaborated ideas, sequencing ideas and using complex sentences, specialist and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features
  8. Year 5AC9E5LY08use phonic, morphemic and vocabulary knowledge to read and spell words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations
  9. Year 5AC9E5LY09build and spell new words from knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations
  10. Year 5AC9E5LY10explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word
  11. Year 7AC9E7LY01explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts
  12. Year 7AC9E7LY02use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts
  13. Year 7AC9E7LY03analyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
  14. Year 7AC9E7LY04explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology
  15. Year 7AC9E7LY05use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas
  16. Year 7AC9E7LY06plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, selecting subject matter, and using text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features as appropriate to convey information, ideas and opinions in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical
  17. Year 7AC9E7LY07plan, create, rehearse and deliver presentations for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical, by selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and using features of voice including volume, tone, pitch and pace
  18. Year 7AC9E7LY08understand how to use spelling rules and word origins; for example, Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes and spelling patterns to learn new words and how to spell them

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