AC9E4LA06
Year 4
English
AC9E4LA06 | Year 4 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor understand that complex sentences contain one independent clause and at least one dependent clause typically joined by a subordinating conjunction to create relationships, such as time and causality
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Language
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Language for expressing and developing ideas
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 4 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration creating richer, more specific descriptions by using adjectival clauses; for example, “Crossing the mountain range was difficult.” becomes “The mountain pass which had received days of heavy rain was dangerous.”
- • Elaboration creating more precise and detailed sentences by adding adverbial clauses; for example, “They crossed the mountain range.” becomes “Although the path was overgrown, they crossed the mountain range.”
- • Elaboration creating richer, more specific sentences by including information about place, time, manner, cause or condition in a dependent clause; for example, “Denise found a cocoon.” becomes “Denise decided to keep an eye on the cocoon until the butterfly emerged.”
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They describe how ideas are developed including through characters and events, and how texts reflect contexts.See it on the standard page →
- They describe how language features including literary devices, and visual features shape meaning.See it on the standard page →
- They create written and/or multimodal texts including stories for purposes and audiences, where they develop ideas using details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts.See it on the standard page →
- They use language features including complex sentences, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or visual features.See it on the standard page →