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AC9E2LA09 Year 2 English

AC9E2LA09 | Year 2 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic
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Language
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Language for expressing and developing ideas

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 2 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration selecting vocabulary appropriate to the topic to replace everyday language
  • • Elaboration discussing new vocabulary encountered in learning area texts
  • • Elaboration exploring language used to describe characters in narratives, including nouns; for example, “magician”, “wizard”, “sorcerer”, and adjectives such as “gentle”, “timid” or “frightened”
  • • Elaboration identifying words from First Nations Australians’ languages relevant to a topic

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