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AC9E6LA08 Year 6 English

AC9E6LA08 – Year 6 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas

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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

identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole

Elaborations

  • 1 exploring how figurative language; for example, metaphors, personification and idioms, can be used to create vivid and less predictable shades of meaning
  • 2 identifying authors’ use of vivid and emotive vocabulary in persuasive texts; for example, the vocabulary used in reviews
  • 3 discussing texts, using vocabulary to name text structure, literary devices and language features; for example, using words that name the literary device used in a poem

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