Elaboration ACELA1462
exploring how language is used to express feelings including learning vocabulary to express a gradation of feeling, for example ‘happy’, ‘joyful’, ‘pleased’, ‘contented’
Elaboration | ACELA1462 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1506
learning that in Standard Australian English regular plural nouns ending in ‘s’ form the possessive by adding just the apostrophe, for example ‘my parents' car’
Elaboration | ACELA1506 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1508
learning how to expand a description by combining a related set of nouns and adjectives – ‘Two old brown cattle dogs sat on the ruined front veranda of the deserted house’
Elaboration | ACELA1508 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (5) ACELA1526
learning about words from other languages, for example ‘umbrella’ comes from the Italian word ombrello, and the word for ‘yabby’ is derived from the Aboriginal word ‘yabij’
Elaboration (5) | ACELA1526 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1426
learning that different languages exist; discussing the various languages encountered in the community and at school; acknowledging the home languages of students who speak another language, and valuing the ability to speak more than one language
Elaboration | ACELA1426 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1431
learning that written text in Standard Australian English has conventions about words, spaces between words, layout on the page and consistent spelling because it has to communicate when the speaker/writer is not present
Elaboration | ACELA1431 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1433
learning that Standard Australian English in written texts is read from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and that direction of print may differ in other cultures, for example Japanese texts
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1433 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1462
exploring in stories, everyday and media texts moral and social dilemmas; such as right and wrong, fairness/unfairness, inclusion and exclusion; learning to use language to describe actions and consider consequences
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1462 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1475
learning that a word or sign can carry different weight in different cultural contexts, for example that particular respect is due to some people and creatures and that stories can be passed on to teach us how to live appropriately
Elaboration | ACELA1475 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACELA1482
learning how time is represented through the tense of a verb, for example 'She arrived’, ‘She is arriving’ and adverbials of time, for example ‘She arrived yesterday’, ‘She is arriving in the morning’
Elaboration (4) | ACELA1482 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1506
learning that in Standard Australian English for proper nouns the regular possessive form is always possible but a variant form without the second ‘s’ is sometimes found, for example ‘James’s house’ or ‘James’ …
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1506 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1514
Using knowledge of word origins and roots and related words to interpret and spell unfamiliar words, and learning about how these roots impact on plurals, for example ‘cactus’ and ‘cacti’, ‘louse’ and ‘lice’
Elaboration | ACELA1514 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum