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AC9E2LA09

experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Language in Year 2.

AC9E2LA01

investigate how interpersonal language choices vary depending on the context, including the different roles taken on in interactions

AC9E2LA02

explore how language can be used for appreciating texts and providing reasons for preferences

AC9E2LA03

identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes

AC9E2LA04

understand how texts are made cohesive by using personal and possessive pronouns and by omitting words that can be inferred

AC9E2LA05

navigate print and screen texts using chapters, tables of contents, indexes, side-bar menus, drop-down menus or links

AC9E2LA06

understand that connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with 2 or more independent clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction

AC9E2LA07

understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups

AC9E2LA08

understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text

AC9E2LA10

recognise that capital letters are used in titles and commas are used to separate items in lists

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9E2LA09 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 2.

  1. Year 1AC9E1LA01understand how language, facial expressions and gestures are used to interact with others when asking for and providing information, making offers, exclaiming, requesting and giving commands
  2. Year 1AC9E1LA02explore language to provide reasons for likes, dislikes and preferences
  3. Year 1AC9E1LA03explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
  4. Year 1AC9E1LA04explore how repetition, rhyme and rhythm create cohesion in simple poems, chants and songs
  5. Year 1AC9E1LA05understand how print and screen texts are organised using features such as page numbers, tables of content, headings and titles, navigation buttons, swipe screens, verbal commands, links and images
  6. Year 1AC9E1LA06understand that a simple sentence consists of a single independent clause representing a single event or idea
  7. Year 1AC9E1LA07understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
  8. Year 1AC9E1LA08compare how images in different types of texts contribute to meaning
  9. Year 1AC9E1LA09recognise the vocabulary of learning area topics
  10. Year 1AC9E1LA10understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns
  11. Year 3AC9E3LA01understand that cooperation with others depends on shared understanding of social conventions, including turn-taking language, which vary according to the degree of formality
  12. Year 3AC9E3LA02understand how the language of evaluation and emotion, such as modal verbs, can be varied to be more or less forceful
  13. Year 3AC9E3LA03describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose
  14. Year 3AC9E3LA04understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of the stages of written texts, grouping related information together
  15. Year 3AC9E3LA05identify the purpose of layout features in print and digital texts and the words used for navigation
  16. Year 3AC9E3LA06understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb that need to agree
  17. Year 3AC9E3LA07understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating
  18. Year 3AC9E3LA08understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense
  19. Year 3AC9E3LA09identify how images extend the meaning of a text
  20. Year 3AC9E3LA10extend topic-specific and technical vocabulary and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts
  21. Year 3AC9E3LA11understand that apostrophes signal missing letters in contractions, and apostrophes are used to show singular and plural possession

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