Australian Curriculum V9 English
Bring Australian Curriculum V9 to your English lesson plans with teacher-created worksheets, games, hands-on activities and more teaching resources aligned to the latest version of the Australian curriculum!
This robust resource collection comes from the expert English teachers of Teach Starter, who have applied the changes made to the F–10 Australian Curriculum in version 9.0 to our popular resources and added even more printable and digital options for teachers!
Curious about what's new for English teachers in V9? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
Changes to English in Version 9.0
ACARA has called version 9 a "more stripped-back and teachable curriculum," and English teachers will notice there's more of an emphasis on phonics instruction than ever before.
Here are some other important changes that have come in the latest Aus curriculum, as well as some things that have remained the same!
- There's more of a cross-curriculum priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures.
- References to 'predictable texts' and the '3-cueing system' have been removed from the new curriculum, along with 'combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge.' Year 1 teachers will notice that the term 'visual memory' is also gone from mentions of reading and writing high-frequency words.
- The three strands of Language, Literature and Literacy remain as organisers.
- Content descriptors that deal with students learning word level knowledge and reading no longer appear in the 'Language' section. Instead, you will find them in the 'Literacy' section.
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Onset and Rime Mini Books
Practise onset and rime phonemic awareness with this set of mini books that each focus on the short vowel sounds (a,e,i,o,u).
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Picture the Dialogue - Quotation Mark Printables
Improve students’ abilities to write dialogue using correct punctuation with a set of ‘Picture the Dialogue’ writing worksheets.
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Verb Charades Active Game
Practise action verbs with this fun active charades game!
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Australian Conservationists: The Irwins – Comprehension Worksheet
Learn about the Irwin family and their conservation work with this 2-page reading passage and accompanying comprehension questions.
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Contractions Writing Activity Pack
Put contractions into sentences to demonstrate an understanding of contractions in context using these writing worksheets.
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Introduction to Contractions Teaching Slides
Teach students about contractions with this engaging set of teaching slides.
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Factual Recount Text Type Poster With Annotations
Display this Factual Recount text with annotations to help students identify the structure of this type of text.
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How to Stay Healthy – Procedural Writing Project
Get your students writing high-quality procedure texts with this fun “How to Stay Healthy” procedural writing project.
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Finding Phonemes - A, AW, AU, OR, ORE Digital Learning Activity
Read and spell words using the au, aw, a, or, and ore phonemes with an interactive digital learning activity.
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Figurative Language Posters – Onomatopoeia
Help young readers and writers recognise onomatopoeias with a set of onomatopoeia classroom posters.
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Amazing Ants! – Comprehension Worksheet Year 1-2
Review reading skills with comprehension worksheet for an article about ants from the Year 1 magazine (Issue 3).
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Consonant Digraph Cut-and-Paste Worksheets
Reinforce your students' knowledge of digraphs with this set of cut-and-paste worksheets.
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The Force of Friction Comprehension Worksheets
Download this friction worksheet to teach your Year 4 students about the force of friction and its impact on our daily lives.
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Trick or Treat Digraphs Worksheet
Sort Halloween Digraphs and colour them by code with a fun Halloween Phonics worksheet.
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Year 6 Magazine – What's Buzzing? (Issue 3)
Issue 3 of our beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 6 students.
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Year 5 Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 2)
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 5 students.
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Year 5 Magazine - What's Buzzing? (Issue 1)
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 5 students.
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Year 4 Magazine – What’s Buzzing? (Issue 2)
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 4 students.
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Year 2 Magazine – What’s Buzzing? (Issue 2)
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine specifically designed for Year 2 students.
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Main Idea and Details Mini-Book
Practise identifying the main idea and supporting ideas in a variety of texts by completing this mini-book.
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Types of Characters - Poster
Remind students about the types of characters that can be found in stories with this colourful classroom poster.
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Main Idea and Details - Interactive Peg Cards
Practise identifying the main idea with these interactive peg cards.
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Main Idea Ice Cream Cones Sorting Activity
Practise distinguishing the main idea and the supporting detail with this fun ice cream sorting activity.
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Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text - Teaching PowerPoint
Build skills in identifying the main idea and details in nonfiction texts with this teaching PowerPoint
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Wheely Wonderful Words – Overused Verbs
Get rid of those overused verbs with a word wheel of synonyms.
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Long E Words - Word Search
Explore words containing some of the most common ‘long e’ graphemes with this set of differentiated word searches.
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Prefixes, Suffixes and Roots - Dictionary Hunt Worksheet
Investigate the morphological meanings of word-parts with this dictionary hunt.
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Read, Find and Colour – CVC Words
Consolidate your students' decoding skills with this set of search and find worksheets.
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Long and Short Vowel Sort
A sorting by long vowel, short vowel printable.
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Phoneme Spotter Story – 'oy' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the ‘oy’ sound.
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J. K. Rowling Biography – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a biography from the Year 5 magazine (Issue 2).
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‘Have’ Sight Word Little Book
A little book with activities for the word ‘have’.