AC9E3LA10
Year 3
English
AC9E3LA10 – Year 3 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Substrand
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.
Content Description
extend topic-specific and technical vocabulary and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts
Elaborations
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1
identifying and using technical words to describe length; for example, metric units of length – “millimetre” and “centimetre”
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2
identifying and using words to describe features of narratives; for example, “character”, “plot” and “setting”
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3
identifying words that have different meanings in different contexts; for example, “warm temperature” and “warm character”
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4
extending vocabulary by adding prefixes and suffixes to base words; for example, “different”, “differently” and “difference”
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