AC9E4LA03 Year 4 English

This Content Descriptor from Year 4 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.

identify how texts across the curriculum have different language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages depending on purposes

Elaborations

• 1 identifying the typical stages and language features of texts such as narratives, factual recounts, imaginative recounts, biographies, information reports, explanations, book talks, poetry and arguments for a particular purpose
• 2 understanding how and why text structure is important in texts such as sequential and causal explanations, and comparative and part-whole information reports
• 3 recognising that poems have different purposes that influence the organisation into characteristic stages; for example, poems that tell stories, poems that describe and poems that reflect on aspects of life
• 4 recognising the difference between a text’s form such as a poster, email or list and its organisation into stages depending on its social purpose

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