AC9E3LA10
Year 3
English
AC9E3LA10 | Year 3 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor extend topic-specific and technical vocabulary and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts
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 identifying and using technical words to describe length; for example, metric units of length – “millimetre” and “centimetre”
- • Elaboration identifying and using words to describe features of narratives; for example, “character”, “plot” and “setting”
- • Elaboration identifying words that have different meanings in different contexts; for example, “warm temperature” and “warm character”
- • Elaboration extending vocabulary by adding prefixes and suffixes to base words; for example, “different”, “differently” and “difference”
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Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- 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 →