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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FANBOYS Poster for Teaching Coordinating Conjunctions
Display this FANBOYS poster in your classroom to help students choose appropriate coordinating conjunctions.
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Recount Writing Checklist Pack
Use this recount writing checklist pack when teaching your students how to edit their writing.
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Persuasive Writing Graphic Organiser Pack
Help students gather their thoughts during persuasive writing with this differentiated set of graphic organisers.
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Long Vowel Phoneme Spotter Stories
Use this set of decodable texts featuring various graphemes that make long vowel sounds.
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Digital Fact or Opinion Game
Engage your class with this digital fact or opinion game where students move around the classroom to classify statements as facts or opinions.
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Printable Adjectives List for Kids
Print your students a list of adjectives to keep at hand when writing to help them use descriptive language.
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Persuade Me Persuasive Writing Prompts
Encourage students to write persuasive texts with these engaging task cards or teaching slides.
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Fact and Opinion Worksheets – Cut and Paste
Use these fact and opinion worksheets to help your students identify the difference between fact statements and opinion statements.
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Noun Groups Teaching Slides for Year 2
Help students understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives with these Noun Group teaching slides.
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Epic Editing Workbook – Year 2
Use these Year 2 editing worksheets to get your students practising and refining their proofreading skills.
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Introduction to Personal Recounts PowerPoint
Use this personal recount set of teaching slides to teach younger students about the structure and language features of personal recounts.
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A to Z Handwriting Sheets with Upper and Lower Case Letters and Examples
A set of 26 A to Z handwriting sheets with upper and lower case letters and examples.
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Guided Narrative Writing Prompts for Beginning Writers
Help your young writers build confidence with this set of engaging narrative writing prompts, available as both printable worksheets and digital slides.
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FANBOYS Worksheet Pack
Help students connect ideas in their writing with these FANBOYS worksheets to improve compound sentence writing.
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Simple Persuasive Texts Writing Scaffold Pack
Help your Year 2 students grow into confident, clear, and convincing writers with this structured and engaging Persuasive Writing Scaffold Pack!
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Let Me Persuade You - Persuasive Writing Activity
Use this persuasive writing prompt to encourage younger students to persuade readers to buy their lunchbox design.
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For and Against Worksheets
Explore 'for' and 'against' arguments for five different topics with this set of 'for' and 'against' sorting activities.
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Narrative Writing Checklist Pack
Use this narrative checklist pack when teaching your students how to edit their narrative writing.
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Persuasive Writing Poster Set
Display this set of persuasive posters for students to use as a guide during your persuasive writing units.
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Readers' Theatre Scripts - Year 1 and Year 2
Boost reading fluency and confidence with this set of Readers’ Theatre scripts designed for Year 1 and Year 2 students.
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Simple and Compound - Roll a Sentence Dice Game
Play a ‘Roll-a-Sentence’ dice game to help your students practise writing simple and compound sentences.
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Country Report – Mini Book Template
Download this information report template to use when teaching informative writing to primary students.
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Diphthong Colouring Activity Worksheets
Practise finding different vowel team diphthongs with this set of fun colour-by-code worksheets for your students.
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Exploring Persuasive Texts PowerPoint - Year 1 and Year 2
A 35 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about the structure and language features of persuasive texts.
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Mars vs. Earth - Differentiated Paired Passage Worksheets
Learn about the planets with differentiated compare and contrast passages, activities and writing opportunities.
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Story Elements Poster Set
Display this story elements poster set in your classroom when learning about narrative texts.
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OREO® Persuasive Writing Posters
Help students remember the structure of persuasive texts with this fun OREO® acronym.
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Digraph Handwriting - Worksheets
24 digraph worksheets that focus on handwriting and vocabulary activities.
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Character Traits, Feelings and Appearance - Posters
A set of 3 posters depicting words and phrases that can be used to describe a character's personality, feelings and appearance.
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Build a Fact File Worksheet
Use this fact file template as a research tool when teaching factual writing to your students.
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All About Me! - Simile Poem Template & Poster
Get to know your students and explore simile poems at the same time with this All About Me Simile Poem Template and Poster.
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Animal Information Report Cloze Worksheets
Get your students to write a simple information report on an animal with this set of structured templates.