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AC9E3LY10 Year 3 English

AC9E3LY10 | Year 3 English: Phonic and word knowledge

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor understand how to apply knowledge of common base words, prefixes, suffixes and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word to read and comprehend new multimorphemic words
Strand
Literacy
Substrand
Phonic and word knowledge

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 3 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration understanding how to use knowledge of prefixes to change the meaning of a base word; for example, “undone”, “remove” and “misunderstand”
  • • Elaboration using generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word to form a plural or past tense; for example, to make a word plural when it ends in “ss”, “sh”, “ch” or “z”, add “es”

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