AC9E5LA04
Year 5
English
AC9E5LA04 | Year 5 English: Text structure and organisation
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor 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
Strand
Language
Substrand
Text structure and organisation
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 5 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration 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.”
- • Elaboration 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.”
- • Elaboration 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
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- 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 explain how characteristic text structures support the purpose of texts.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 →
- They use paragraphs to organise, develop and link ideas.See it on the standard page →