AC9E6LA05
Year 6
English
AC9E6LA05 – Year 6 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Substrand
Language for expressing and developing ideas
This Content Descriptor from Year 6 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 embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
Elaborations
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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.”
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creating complex sentences with embedded clauses to expand noun groups; for example, “Hamish studied the rock samples that he had collected on the excursion, to complete his report.”
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