AC9E3LA02 Year 3 English

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

understand how the language of evaluation and emotion, such as modal verbs, can be varied to be more or less forceful

Elaborations

• 1 exploring how modal verbs; for example, “must”, “might” and “could”, indicate degrees of probability or obligation
• 2 recognising how choice of adverbs, nouns and verbs present different evaluations of characters in texts
• 3 exploring examples of language that demonstrate a range of emotions and positions, and building a vocabulary to express judgements about characters or events; for example, “the wizard was cunning, expert, inventive”

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