AC9E5LA06
Year 5
English
AC9E5LA06 – Year 5 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Substrand
Language for expressing and developing ideas
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.
Content Description
understand how noun groups can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of a person, place, thing or idea
Elaborations
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learning how to expand a description by combining a related set of nouns and adjectives; for example, “Two old brown cattle dogs”
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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)
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