English / Year 6 / Literacy / Creating texts

Curriculum content descriptions

Develop a handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and varies according to audience and purpose (ACELY1716)

Elaborations
  • using handwriting efficiently as a tool for a wide range of formal and informal text creation tasks
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Handwriting

Video

BTN: Write or type, that is the question!

Do you have to learn cursive writing at school? In Finland, instead of cursive, they are learning how to type! Do you think this is a good idea? Why/why not?

Interactive

Syllabus bites: types of sentences

A web page resource with information, teacher guides and activities on types of sentences to support the Australian Curriculum in English K–10. It has detailed activities, links to resources and quizzes.

Interactive

Syllabus bites: Visual literacy

A resource with information, study guides and resources on visual literacy to support the English K-10 Australian Curriculum in English. It provides a series of activities, guidelines and tasks about visual texts from a variety of sources. Contains writing scaffolds, templates and proformas for responding and composing ...