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Elaboration (2) ACELA1438

breaking words into onset and rime to learn how to spell words that share the same pattern, for example ‘p-at’, ‘b-at’, ‘t-all’ and ‘f-all’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1779

building morphemic word families and exploring word origins, for example ‘tricycle’, ‘triangle’ and ‘triple’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1526

expanding knowledge of prefixes and suffixes and exploring meaning relationships between words for example ‘disappearance’, ‘submarine’, ‘subterranean’, ‘poisonous’ and ‘nervous’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1513

learning that many complex words were originally hyphenated but are now written without a hyphen, for example ‘uncommon, ‘renew’, ‘email’ and ‘refine’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1457

deleting initial onset sound in spoken words, for example delete the ‘f’ from ‘farm’ to make a new word ‘arm’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1471

drawing on knowledge of letter-sound relationships, for example breaking a word into syllables, then recording the sounds heard and thinking about the letter patterns that represent the sounds

Elaboration (2) ACELA1569

observing how authors sometimes use verbless clauses for effect (for example, ‘And what about the other woman? With her long black eyelashes and red lipstick’)

Elaboration (2) ACELA1439

identifying syllables in spoken words, for example clapping the rhythm of ‘Mon-day’, ‘Ja-cob’ or ‘Si-en-na’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1468

exploring names of people and places and how to write them using capital letters

using knowledge of sounds and visual patterns to read and write more complex letter combinations that have multiple representations in writing, for example ‘boy’ and ‘boil’, ‘howl’ and ‘foul’, ‘taught ’and ‘saw’

Elaboration (2) ACELY1734

explaining whether the author conveys meaning adequately, particularly in distinguishing fact from opinion

Elaboration (2) ACELA1563

understanding how and why spelling became standardised and how conventions have changed over time and continue to change through common usage, the invention of new words and creative combinations of existing words

Elaboration (2) ACELA1570

noting how technicality allows for efficient reference to shared knowledge, indicating growing expertise in the field (for example, ‘The Romantic poetry of Keats is characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes.’)

Elaboration (2) ACELA1430

repeating parts of texts, for example characteristic refrains, predicting cumulative storylines, reciting poetic and rhyming phrases

Elaboration (2) ACELY1650

providing a simple, correctly-sequenced retelling of narrative texts

Elaboration (2) ACELA1491

describing how text connectives link sections of a text providing sequences through time, for example ‘firstly’, ‘then’, ‘next’, and ‘finally’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1433

learning about front and back covers; title and author, layout and navigation of digital/screen texts

Elaboration (2) ACELY1713

finding specific literal information

Elaboration (2) ACELA1462

exploring how language is used to construct characters and settings in narratives, including choice of nouns such as ‘girl’, ‘princess’ or ‘orphan’, and choice of adjectives such as ‘gentle’, ‘timid’ or ‘frightened’

Elaboration (2) ACELT1591

identifying features of imaginary or fantasy texts, for example magic powers, shifts in time

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