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AC9E5LA08: Year 5 English Content Descriptor – Language for expressing and developing ideas
AC9E5LA08 Year 5 English

AC9E5LA08 – Year 5 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas

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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 Descriptor

understand how vocabulary is used to express greater precision of meaning, including through the use of specialist and technical terms, and explore the history of words

Elaborations

  • • using precise words for naming; for example, instead of “mammal” or “whale”, using “humpback whale”
  • • exploring Greek and Latin roots in commonly used words; for example, the Greek root word “tele” meaning distant in words such as “telephone” and “teleport”

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASENGY5
Year 5 English Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 5, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts. For particular purposes and audiences, they share, develop and expand on ideas and opinions, using supporting details from topics or texts. They use different text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They use language features including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice. They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They explain how ideas are developed including through characters, settings and/or events, and how texts reflect contexts. They explain how characteristic text structures support the purpose of texts. They explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features contribute to the effect and meaning of a text. 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. They use paragraphs to organise, develop and link ideas. They use language features including complex sentences, tenses, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features. They spell using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge.