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AC9E6LA02

understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Language in Year 6.

AC9E6LA01

understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase

AC9E6LA03

explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features

AC9E6LA04

understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations

AC9E6LA05

understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas

AC9E6LA06

understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups

AC9E6LA07

identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning

AC9E6LA08

identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole

AC9E6LA09

understand how to use the comma for lists, to separate a dependent clause from an independent clause, and in dialogue

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9E6LA02 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 6.

  1. Year 5AC9E5LA01understand that language is selected for social contexts and that it helps to signal social roles and relationships
  2. Year 5AC9E5LA02understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources
  3. Year 5AC9E5LA03describe how spoken, written and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts
  4. Year 5AC9E5LA04understand how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give prominence to the message and to guide the reader through the text
  5. Year 5AC9E5LA05understand that the structure of a complex sentence includes a main clause and at least one dependent clause, and understand how writers can use this structure for effect
  6. Year 5AC9E5LA06understand how noun groups can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of a person, place, thing or idea
  7. Year 5AC9E5LA07explain how the sequence of images in print, digital and film texts has an effect on meaning
  8. Year 5AC9E5LA08understand how vocabulary is used to express greater precision of meaning, including through the use of specialist and technical terms, and explore the history of words
  9. Year 5AC9E5LA09use commas to indicate prepositional phrases, and apostrophes where there is multiple possession
  10. Year 7AC9E7LA01understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities
  11. Year 7AC9E7LA02recognise language used to evaluate texts including visual and multimodal texts, and how evaluations of a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources
  12. Year 7AC9E7LA03identify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts
  13. Year 7AC9E7LA04understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs
  14. Year 7AC9E7LA05understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
  15. Year 7AC9E7LA06understand how consistency of tense through verbs and verb groups achieves clarity in sentences
  16. Year 7AC9E7LA07analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective
  17. Year 7AC9E7LA08investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings
  18. Year 7AC9E7LA09understand the use of punctuation including colons and brackets to support meaning

Planning against AC9E6LA02?

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