NSW English Syllabus Outcomes

These are the Syllabus Outcomes for the New South Wales (NSW) English Syllabus K-6.

The lesson plans on the Teaching with Picture Books website are aligned with these outcomes.

English Syllabus Outcomes (Kindergarten):

• ENe-1A: Communicates with peers and known adults in informal and guided activities demonstrating emerging use of appropriate conventions.
• ENe-2A: Uses vocabulary, grammatical features, punctuation marks, and spelling strategies appropriate to the type of text when composing simple texts.

English Syllabus Outcomes (Year 1):

• EN1-6B: Retells familiar stories and identifies settings and characters.
• EN1-9B: Describes characters, settings, and events in narratives and discusses what they communicate about social experiences.
• EN1-11D: Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own.

English Syllabus Outcomes (Year 2):

• EN2-10C: Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, ideas, and texts when responding to and composing texts.
• EN2-4A: Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view, and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics.

Geography Syllabus Outcomes (Kindergarten):

• GEe-1: Recognizes features of familiar places and can describe them.   

Geography Syllabus Outcomes (Year 1):

• GE1-1: Identifies and describes features of places and understands location.