AC9E5LA04 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.

understand how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give prominence to the message and to guide the reader through the text

Elaborations

• 1 observing how writers use the beginning of a sentence to signal to the reader how the text is developing; for example, “Snakes are reptiles. They have scales and no legs. Many snakes are poisonous. However, in Australia they are protected.”
• 2 recognising that a sequence of clauses may use different tenses but remain connected through a topic; for example, “Snakes were a problem in Australia. However, urban sprawl is ruining their habitats and they are now a protected species.”
• 3 recognising that sentence openers signal what the sentence will be about, and the rest of the sentence typically elaborates on the sentence opener by providing new information

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