AC9E3LA08 – Year 3 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas

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.

Elaborations

• 1 learning how time is represented through the tense of a verb; for example, “She arrived.” “She is arriving.” and adverbials of time; for example, “She arrived yesterday.” “She is arriving in the morning.”
• 2 learning that tenses for some verbs are formed by changing the word; for example, “She catches the ball.” “She caught the ball.”

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