Elaboration ACELY1666
using spoken language for problem solving, and exploring ideas and concepts
Elaboration | ACELY1666 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1666
listening to, remembering and responding to detailed instructions
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1666 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1790
becoming familiar with the typical features of online texts, for example navigation bars and buttons, hyperlinks and sitemaps
Elaboration | ACELA1790 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1481
knowing that a clause is basically a group of words that contains a verb
Elaboration | ACELA1481 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1481
knowing that, in terms of meaning, a basic clause represents: what is happening; what state is being described; who or what is involved; and the surrounding circumstances
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1481 | 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) ACELA1483
observing how images construct a relationship with the viewer through such strategies as: direct gaze into the viewer's eyes, inviting involvement and how close ups are more engaging than distanced images, which can suggest alienation or loneliness
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1483 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1827
exploring generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word to form a plural or past tense, for example to make a word plural when it ends in ‘ss’, ‘sh’, ‘ch’ or ‘z’, add ‘es’
Elaboration | ACELA1827 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1599
identifying and discussing the use of descriptive adjectives (‘in the middle of a vast, bare plain’) to establish setting and atmosphere (‘the castle loomed dark and forbidding’) and to draw readers into events that follow
Elaboration | ACELT1599 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELT1599
discussing the language used to describe the traits of characters in stories, their actions and motivations: ‘Claire was so lonely; she desperately wanted a pet and she was afraid she would do anything, just anything, to have one to care for’
Elaboration (1) | ACELT1599 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACELY1680
determining important ideas, events or details in texts commenting on things learned or questions raised by reading, referring explicitly to the text for verification
Elaboration (4) | ACELY1680 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1780
using meaning and context to determine the spelling of homophones, for example ‘there’ and ‘their’; ‘no’ and ‘know’
Elaboration | ACELA1780 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | 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 (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 ACELA1507
knowing that complex sentences make connections between ideas, such as: to provide a reason, for example 'He jumped up because the bell rang.'; to state a purpose, for example 'She raced home to confront her brother.'; to express a condition, for example …
Elaboration | ACELA1507 | 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 (1) ACELA1508
observing how descriptive details can be built up around a noun or an adjective, forming a group/phrase (for example, ‘this very smelly cleaning cloth in the sink’ is a noun group/phrase and ‘as pretty as the flowers in May’ is an adjective group/phr …
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1508 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1511
interpreting narrative texts told as wordless picture books
Elaboration | ACELA1511 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1513
talking about how suffixes change over time and new forms are invented to reflect changing attitudes to gender, for example 'policewoman' or 'salesperson'
Elaboration | ACELA1513 | 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