Year 3 English
The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding …
Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1477
Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful
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ACELA1477 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard English Year 3
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 3, students understand how content can be organised using different text structures depending on the purpose of the text. They understand how language features, images and vocabulary …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1478
Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences)
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ACELA1478 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | 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
ACELT1599
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative
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ACELT1599 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1600
Discuss the nature and effects of some language devices used to enhance meaning and shape the reader’s reaction, including rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry and prose
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ACELT1600 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1791
Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue
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ACELT1791 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1680
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
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ACELY1680 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1682
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose
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ACELY1682 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1484
exploring examples of language which demonstrate a range of feelings and positions, and building a vocabulary to express judgements about characters or events, acknowledging that language and judgements might differ depending on the cultural context
Elaboration | ACELA1484 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1478
becoming familiar with typical structural stages and language features of various types of text, for example narratives, procedures, reports, reviews and expositions
Elaboration | ACELA1478 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1601
drawing on literary texts read, viewed and listened to for inspiration and ideas, appropriating language to create mood and characterisation
Elaboration | ACELT1601 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACELY1792
using language appropriately in different situations such as making a request of a teacher, explaining a procedure to a classmate, engaging in a game with friends
Elaboration (4) | ACELY1792 | 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