AC9E5LA08
Year 5
English
AC9E5LA08 – 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 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
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using precise words for naming; for example, instead of “mammal” or “whale”, using “humpback whale”
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2
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”
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