AC9E5LA06
Year 5
English
AC9E5LA06 | Year 5 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor understand how noun groups can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of a person, place, thing or idea
Strand
Language
Substrand
Language for expressing and developing ideas
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 5 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration learning how to expand a description by combining a related set of nouns and adjectives; for example, “Two old brown cattle dogs”
- • Elaboration observing how descriptive details can be built up around a noun or an adjective, forming a group (for example, “this very smelly cleaning cloth in the sink” is a noun group and “as pretty as the flowers in May” is an adjective group)
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 language features including literary devices, and visual features contribute to the effect and meaning of a text.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 language features including complex sentences, tenses, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features.See it on the standard page →