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AC9E3LA10

extend topic-specific and technical vocabulary and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Language in Year 3.

AC9E3LA01

understand that cooperation with others depends on shared understanding of social conventions, including turn-taking language, which vary according to the degree of formality

AC9E3LA02

understand how the language of evaluation and emotion, such as modal verbs, can be varied to be more or less forceful

AC9E3LA03

describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose

AC9E3LA04

understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of the stages of written texts, grouping related information together

AC9E3LA05

identify the purpose of layout features in print and digital texts and the words used for navigation

AC9E3LA06

understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb that need to agree

AC9E3LA07

understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating

AC9E3LA08

understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense

AC9E3LA09

identify how images extend the meaning of a text

AC9E3LA11

understand that apostrophes signal missing letters in contractions, and apostrophes are used to show singular and plural possession

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9E3LA10 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 3.

  1. Year 2AC9E2LA01investigate how interpersonal language choices vary depending on the context, including the different roles taken on in interactions
  2. Year 2AC9E2LA02explore how language can be used for appreciating texts and providing reasons for preferences
  3. Year 2AC9E2LA03identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes
  4. Year 2AC9E2LA04understand how texts are made cohesive by using personal and possessive pronouns and by omitting words that can be inferred
  5. Year 2AC9E2LA05navigate print and screen texts using chapters, tables of contents, indexes, side-bar menus, drop-down menus or links
  6. Year 2AC9E2LA06understand that connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with 2 or more independent clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction
  7. Year 2AC9E2LA07understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups
  8. Year 2AC9E2LA08understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text
  9. Year 2AC9E2LA09experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic
  10. Year 2AC9E2LA10recognise that capital letters are used in titles and commas are used to separate items in lists
  11. Year 4AC9E4LA01explore language used to develop relationships in formal and informal situations
  12. Year 4AC9E4LA02identify the subjective language of opinion and feeling, and the objective language of factual reporting
  13. Year 4AC9E4LA03identify how texts across the curriculum have different language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages depending on purposes
  14. Year 4AC9E4LA04identify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas
  15. Year 4AC9E4LA05identify text navigation features of online texts that enhance readability including headlines, drop-down menus, links, graphics and layout
  16. Year 4AC9E4LA06understand that complex sentences contain one independent clause and at least one dependent clause typically joined by a subordinating conjunction to create relationships, such as time and causality
  17. Year 4AC9E4LA07investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech are used
  18. Year 4AC9E4LA08understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity
  19. Year 4AC9E4LA09understand past, present and future tenses and their impact on meaning in a sentence
  20. Year 4AC9E4LA10explore the effect of choices when framing an image, placement of elements in the image and salience on composition of still and moving images in texts
  21. Year 4AC9E4LA11expand vocabulary by exploring a range of synonyms and antonyms, and using words encountered in a range of sources
  22. Year 4AC9E4LA12understand that punctuation signals dialogue through quotation marks and that dialogue follows conventions for the use of capital letters, commas and boundary punctuation

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