AC9E6LA05
Year 6
English
AC9E6LA05 | Year 6 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
Strand
Language
Substrand
Language for expressing and developing ideas
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 6 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration investigating how the choice of conjunctions enables the construction of complex sentences to extend, to elaborate on and to explain ideas; for example, “The town that was flooded suffered extensive damage.”
- • Elaboration creating complex sentences with embedded clauses to expand noun groups; for example, “Hamish studied the rock samples that he had collected on the excursion.”
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Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They identify similarities and differences in how ideas are presented and developed including through characters, settings and/or events, and how texts reflect contexts.See it on the standard page →
- They explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features influence audiences.See it on the standard page →
- They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing, explaining and elaborating on relevant ideas from topics or texts.See it on the standard page →
- They use and vary language features including sentence structures, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features.See it on the standard page →