AC9E5LA03 Year 5 English

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

describe how spoken, written and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts

Elaborations

• 1 becoming familiar with the typical stages and language features of types of texts such as narrative, procedure, arguments, explanation, discussion and informative texts, and how they can be composed in written, digital and multimedia forms to achieve their purpose
• 2 recognising that paragraphs vary in their function and how they are organised in a text and between different types of texts; for example, the differences between paragraphs in a narrative, an argument and a procedure
• 3 describing the stages and phases, and purposes of narratives, historical recounts, procedural recounts, causal explanations, discussions of alternative positions on an issue, information reports, reviews and types of poems

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