Personal & Social Development Emotional Literacyusually ages 9–11

Emotional Patterns Over Time

Reflect on their own emotional patterns over time — noticing recurring triggers, understanding their typical responses, and recognising how their emotional awareness has grown

How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

Identify a recurring emotional trigger and their typical response to it
Describe how their emotional understanding has changed compared to when they were younger
Set a personal goal related to emotional awareness, such as noticing when stress is building

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Can your child tell you something like 'I always get stressed before tests but I've learned that's normal for me' — showing they understand their own emotional patterns?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Emotions and Decision-Makingages 9–11Reflecting on emotional patterns builds on understanding emotions influence decisions

Patterns in Your Own Reactionsages 7–9Reflecting on emotional patterns over time and recognising recurring triggers builds on the foundational habit of noticing patterns in your reactions

Culture and Experience Shape Emotionsages 9–11Reflection on patterns benefits from understanding cultural context

Personal Coping Toolkitages 9–11Emotional pattern reflection connects to coping toolkit reflection

Personal Growth Over Timeages 10–11Recognising how emotional awareness has grown over time is the Emotional Literacy domain-specific form of the foundational growth-reflection habit

Emotional Patterns Over Timethis skill · ages 9–11

Unlocks

Emotional Intelligenceages 13–14Advanced emotional literacy skills depends on earlier emotional expression concepts

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 3 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9HP4P06medium confidenceYear 3–4 · Personal, social and community health

explain how and why emotional responses can vary and practise strategies to manage their emotions

AC9HP6P06medium confidenceYear 5–6 · Personal, social and community health

apply strategies to manage emotions and analyse how emotional responses influence interactions

AC9HS6S03low confidenceYear 6 · Skills

evaluate information and data in a range of formats to identify and describe patterns and trends, or to infer relationships

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2HP4P06high confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 3 and 4 · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand

VC2HP6P06medium confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 5 and 6 · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand

VC2HP4P02medium confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 3 and 4 · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

Nearby on the map

Culture and Experience Shape Emotionsages 9–11 Emotions and Decision-Makingages 9–11 Mixed and Conflicting Emotionsages 9–11 Brain Science of Emotionsages 11–12

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