AC9E5LA02
Year 5
English
AC9E5LA02 | Year 5 English: Language for interacting with others
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources
Strand
Language
Substrand
Language for interacting with others
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 5 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration recognising that a bare assertion (for example, “It's the best film this year.”) often needs to be tempered by: using the “impersonal it” to distance oneself (for example, “It could be said that it is the best film this year.”); recruiting anonymous support (for example, “It is generally agreed that it is the best film this year.”); indicating a general source of the opinion (for example, “Most critics agree that it is the best film this year.”); specifying the source of the opinion (for example, “Reviewers for The Reel Film stated that it is the best film this year.”) and reflecting on the effect of these different choices
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Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- For particular purposes and audiences, they share, develop and expand on ideas and opinions, using supporting details from topics or texts.See it on the standard page →
- They explain how ideas are developed including through characters, settings and/or events, and how texts reflect contexts.See it on the standard page →
- They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing and expanding on ideas with supporting details from topics or texts.See it on the standard page →