Each cluster shows where the same content lives in other major curricula, plus open‑licensed resources curated underneath. Sources are official ministry documents — never inferred.
Read a wide range of fiction and non-fiction including pre-1914 texts; understand increasingly challenging texts via inference, evaluation, and contextual knowledge; literary history awareness.
Australia ACARA≈ OVERLAPS
Literature (Year 7)
UK Reading covers literary + non-literary; ACARA splits to Literature + Literacy.
Literacy (Year 7)
US Common Core≈ OVERLAPS
Reading: Literature (RL.7)
US splits Literature vs Informational; UK Reading is one strand covering both.
Reading: Informational Text (RI.7)
US RI.7 (informational reading) sits inside UK's single Reading strand.
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Writing (Y7)
Write accurately, fluently, effectively and at length for pleasure and information; plan, draft, edit, and proofread; adapt to audience, purpose, and form including narrative, expository, persuasive.
Australia ACARA≈ OVERLAPS
Literacy (Year 7)
UK Writing is its own strand; ACARA bundles writing inside Literacy.
US Common Core≡ EQUIVALENT
Writing (W.7)
Both: argument, informative, and narrative writing with plan/draft/edit process.
CLUSTER 03 · 4
Grammar and vocabulary (Y7)
Consolidate and build on KS2 knowledge of grammar and vocabulary; Standard English usage; word origins; how language varies in context, purpose, and register.