AC9E5LY02 Year 5 English

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.

use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea

Elaborations

• 1 participating in pair, group, class and school speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, discussions and presentations
• 2 asking specific questions to clarify a speaker’s meaning, making constructive comments that keep conversation moving, reviewing ideas expressed and conveying tentative conclusions
• 3 using strategies for discussion, such as speaking clearly, pausing, asking questions and linking students’ own responses to the contributions of others
• 4 choosing vocabulary and sentence structures for particular purposes including formal and informal contexts, to report and explain new concepts and topics, to offer an opinion and to persuade others

Related Achievement Standards