AC9E4LE03 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.

discuss how authors and illustrators make stories engaging by the way they develop character, setting and plot tensions

Elaborations

• 1 examining an author’s choice of language to describe a character’s appearance, behaviour and speech
• 2 discussing what is learnt about a character through dialogue such as their likes, dislikes or personal qualities
• 3 identifying moments in the plot where characters are faced with choices, and commenting on how the author makes the reader care about their decisions and the consequences
• 4 identifying how illustrations contribute to the meaning of stories by First Nations Australian authors

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