AC9E4LY05 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.

use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and evaluate texts

Elaborations

• 1 making connections between information in print, images and sound
• 2 reading or listening for key topic-specific vocabulary words to build understanding
• 3 reading or listening to interpret the main idea and supporting ideas
• 4 identifying evidence and reasoning used by authors to support points or arguments
• 5 applying self-monitoring strategies such as re-reading, pausing and questioning, and self-correction strategies such as confirming and cross-checking
• 6 connecting the use of colours, images, symbols and patterns in texts by First Nations Australian authors and illustrators
• 7 evaluating an author’s use of evidence to support arguments

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