AC9E3LA07 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 verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating

Elaborations

• 1 exploring “doing” and “saying” verbs in narrative texts to understand how they give information about what characters do and say
• 2 exploring the use of sensing verbs and how they allow readers to understand what characters think and feel; for example, “He remembered his first day at school.”
• 3 exploring the use of relating verbs in constructing definitions and descriptions; for example, identifying the relating verb “is” or “are”, “has” or “have” in descriptions of animals
• 4 identifying different types of verbs and the way they control meaning in a clause

Related Achievement Standards