AC9E3LY05 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.

use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

Elaborations

• 1 making predictions about a text, drawing on knowledge of the topic, subject-specific vocabulary and experience of texts on the same topic
• 2 determining important ideas, events or details in texts
• 3 learning new content from reading and listening, and asking questions to expand understanding
• 4 comparing and contrasting how different texts present similar ideas or information
• 5 drawing inferences, using evidence from the text and prior knowledge and experience; for example, making predictions about a character's likely actions or about the content of tabbed pages on a website
• 6 determining the relevance of a text for a particular task

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