ACELA1430
Understand that texts can take many forms, can be very short (for example an exit sign) or quite long (for example an information book or a film) and that stories and informative texts have different purposes
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ACELA1430 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1431
Understand that some language in written texts is unlike everyday spoken language
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ACELA1431 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1432
Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters; recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences
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ACELA1432 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1439
Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
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ACELA1439 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1649
Read decodable and predictable texts, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge
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ACELY1649 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1464
Understand how texts are made cohesive through language features, including word associations, synonyms, and antonyms
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ACELA1464 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1480
Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters
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ACELA1480 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1827
Know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word
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ACELA1827 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1779
Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes and word origins to spell more complex words
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ACELA1779 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1504
Understand how texts vary in purpose, structure and topic as well as the degree of formality
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ACELA1504 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1506
Understand how the grammatical category of possessives is signalled through apostrophes and how to use apostrophes with common and proper nouns
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ACELA1506 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1782
Understand how language is used to evaluate texts and how evaluations about a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources
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ACELA1782 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1532
Understand the use of punctuation to support meaning in complex sentences with prepositional phrases and embedded clauses
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ACELA1532 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1534
Recognise and understand that subordinate clauses embedded within noun groups/phrases are a common feature of written sentence structures and increase the density of information
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ACELA1534 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1567
Understand how paragraphs and images can be arranged for different purposes, audiences, perspectives and stylistic effects
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ACELA1567 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1440
Recognise and name all upper and lower case letters (graphemes) and know the most common sound that each letter represents
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ACELA1440 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1447
Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways
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ACELA1447 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1484
Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs
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ACELA1484 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1498
Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources into students’ own texts including vocabulary encountered in research
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ACELA1498 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1512
Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts
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ACELA1512 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum