AC9E5LA09
Year 5
English
AC9E5LA09 | Year 5 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor use commas to indicate prepositional phrases, and apostrophes where there is multiple possession
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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 that in Standard Australian English, regular plural nouns ending in “s” form the possessive by adding just the apostrophe; for example, “the students' classroom”
- • Elaboration learning that in Standard Australian English for proper nouns, the regular possessive form is always possible but a variant form without the second “s” is sometimes found; for example, “James’s house” or “James’ house”
- • Elaboration learning that when there is more than one owner, the apostrophe is usually used for the last owner in the list; for example, “the cat and kitten’s bowls”
- • Elaboration using commas to signal a prepositional phrase; for example, “On Saturday, before it rained we went to the beach.”
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- They use language features including complex sentences, tenses, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features.See it on the standard page →