ACELA1491
Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives
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ACELA1491 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1492
Recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct) speech
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ACELA1492 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1493
Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases
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ACELA1493 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1495
Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity
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ACELA1495 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1500
Understand that the pronunciation, spelling and meanings of words have histories and change over time
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ACELA1500 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1505
Understand that the starting point of a sentence gives prominence to the message in the text and allows for prediction of how the text will unfold
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ACELA1505 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1507
Understand the difference between main and subordinate clauses and that a complex sentence involves at least one subordinate clause
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ACELA1507 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1508
Understand how noun groups/phrases and adjective groups/phrases can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of the person, place, thing or idea
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ACELA1508 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1514
Explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word
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ACELA1514 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1520
Understand that cohesive links can be made in texts by omitting or replacing words
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ACELA1520 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1523
Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases
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ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1536
Understand how modality is achieved through discriminating choices in modal verbs, adverbs, adjectives and nouns
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ACELA1536 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1766
Understand how cohesion in texts is improved by strengthening the internal structure of paragraphs through the use of examples, quotations and substantiation of claims
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ACELA1766 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1544
Understand the use of punctuation conventions, including colons, semicolons, dashes and brackets in formal and informal texts
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ACELA1544 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1547
Recognise that vocabulary choices contribute to the specificity, abstraction and style of texts
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ACELA1547 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1559
Understand how certain abstract nouns can be used to summarise preceding or subsequent stretches of text
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ACELA1559 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACMMG113
Use a grid reference system to describe locations. Describe routes using landmarks and directional language
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ACMMG113 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
ACMSP205
Describe events using language of 'at least', exclusive 'or' (A or B but not both), inclusive 'or' (A or B or both) and 'and'.
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ACMSP205 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
ACMSP247
Use the language of ‘if ....then, ‘given’, ‘of’, ‘knowing that’ to investigate conditional statements and identify common mistakes in interpreting such language
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ACMSP247 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
ACSSU117
Change to an object’s motion is caused by unbalanced forces, including Earth’s gravitational attraction, acting on the object
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ACSSU117 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Science | F-10 curriculum