AC9E5LA08
Year 5
English
AC9E5LA08 | Year 5 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Content Descriptor
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
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 using precise words for naming; for example, instead of “mammal” or “whale”, using “humpback whale”
- • Elaboration 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”
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- By the end of Year 5, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts.See it on the standard page →
- They use language features including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.See it on the standard page →
- They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.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 use language features including complex sentences, tenses, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features.See it on the standard page →