AC9E3LA07
Year 3
English
AC9E3LA07 | Year 3 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating
Strand
Language
Substrand
Language for expressing and developing ideas
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 “doing” and “saying” verbs in narrative texts to understand how they give information about what characters do and say
- • Elaboration 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.”
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration identifying different types of verbs and the way they control meaning in a clause
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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 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 →