AC9E3LA02
Year 3
English
AC9E3LA02 | Year 3 English: Language for interacting with others
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor understand how the language of evaluation and emotion, such as modal verbs, can be varied to be more or less forceful
Strand
Language
Substrand
Language for interacting with others
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 3 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration exploring how modal verbs; for example, “must”, “might” and “could”, indicate degrees of probability or obligation
- • Elaboration recognising how choice of adverbs, nouns and verbs present different evaluations of characters in texts
- • Elaboration 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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Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They relate ideas; express opinion, preferences and appreciation of texts; and include relevant details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts.See it on the standard page →
- They use language features including topic-specific vocabulary, and/or visual features and features of voice.See it on the standard page →
- They describe the language features of texts including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and how visual features extend meaning.See it on the standard page →
- They use text structures including paragraphs, and language features including compound sentences, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features.See it on the standard page →