AC9E5LY10 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.

explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word

Elaborations

• 1 using knowledge of word origins and roots, and related words, to interpret and spell unfamiliar words, and learning about how these roots affect plurals; for example, “cactus” and “cacti”, “louse” and “lice”
• 2 understanding how some suffixes change the grammatical form of words; for example, “-tion” and “-ment” can change verbs into nouns: “protect” to “protection” and “develop” to “development”

Related Achievement Standards