AC9E7LA05
Year 7
English
AC9E7LA05 – Year 7 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Substrand
Language for expressing and developing ideas
This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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 complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
Elaborations
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identifying and experimenting with a range of clause structures and discussing the effect of these in the expression and development of ideas
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consolidating knowledge of simple, compound and complex sentences, recognising that a simple sentence can express sophisticated ideas and a complex sentence need not express “complex” ideas
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examining the addition of ideas using a complex-compound sentence; for example, “When dinosaurs roamed the earth, weather patterns shifted significantly and as a result vegetation depleted.”
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