Summarising Spoken and Media Presentations
Your child can sum up a video, talk or chart in their own words. They pull out the key facts that matter most.
In curriculum terms
Summarise a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats including visually, quantitatively, and orally
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After listening to a talk or watching an informational video, can your child give you a spoken summary of what the main message was in their own words?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
describe how spoken, written and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts
understand how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give prominence to the message and to guide the reader through the text
investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech are used
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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.