Elaboration (1) ACELA1520
recognising how cohesion can be developed through repeating key words or by using synonyms or antonyms
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1520 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1523
knowing that verbs often represent actions and that the choice of more expressive verbs makes an action more vivid (for example 'She ate her lunch' compared to 'She gobbled up her lunch')
Elaboration | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1523
knowing that adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases can provide important details about a happening(for example, ‘At nine o'clock the buzzer rang loudly throughout the school’) or state (for example, ‘The tiger is a member of the cat fam …
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1523
knowing the difference between the simple present tense (for example 'Pandas eat bamboo.') and the simple past tense (for example 'She replied.')
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACELA1523
knowing that the simple present tense is typically used to talk about either present states (for example, ‘He lives in Darwin’) or actions that happen regularly in the present (for example, ‘He watches television every night’) …
Elaboration (3) | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACELA1523
knowing that there are various ways in English to refer to future time, for example auxiliary ‘will’, as in ‘She will call you tomorrow’; present tense, as in ‘Tomorrow I leave for Hobart’; and adverbials of time, as …
Elaboration (4) | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1525
identifying (for example from reviews) the ways in which evaluative language is used to assess the qualities of the various aspects of the work in question
Elaboration | ACELA1525 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1709
recognising that closed questions ask for precise responses while open questions prompt a speaker to provide more information
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1709 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1528
investigating changes in word use and meaning over time and some of the reasons for these changes, for example the influence on spelling and vocabulary of new forms of communication like texting, emoticons and email
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1528 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1764
comparing how different advertisements use visual elements to advertise the same product
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1764 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1621
identifying stereotypes, prejudice and oversimplifications in texts
Elaboration | ACELT1621 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELT1621
exploring ethical issues in literary texts drawing on a range of examples from the texts to illustrate and substantiate the views expressed
Elaboration (1) | ACELT1621 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELT1622
analysing writers’ depictions of challenges in texts, for example those faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1622 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1765
investigating the influence on written language of communicative technologies like SMS, text, email and Twitter
Elaboration | ACELY1765 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1721
identifying the purpose and possible audience for a text
Elaboration | ACELY1721 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1725
compiling a portfolio of texts in a range of modes related to a particular concept, purpose or audience, for example a class anthology of poems or stories
Elaboration | ACELY1725 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1542
identifying and evaluating examples of how rhetorical devices reveal the dark or serious aspects of a topic in ways that cause laughter or amusement, for example by making a statement but implying/meaning the opposite (irony); exaggerating or overstating …
Elaboration | ACELA1542 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1766
writing paragraphs of extended length that explain and substantiate a particular personal viewpoint
Elaboration | ACELA1766 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELT1629
writing or speaking about a literary text and outlining the impact of the text on a listener, viewer or reader, for example in a journal in which students reflect on their personal responses and on how language and structural features in the text contribute …
Elaboration (2) | ACELT1629 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1767
select an aspect of a text such as a sentence pattern or an image or word and adapt it for a new context explaining how the change will affect meaning
Elaboration | ACELT1767 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum