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Elaboration (1) ACELA1513

using knowledge of known words and base words to spell new words, for example the spelling and meaning connections between ‘vision’, ‘television’ and ‘revision’

Elaboration (3) ACELA1513

applying knowledge of spelling generalisations to spell new words, for example ‘suitable’, ‘likeable’ and ‘collapsible’

Elaboration (2) ACELA1513

learning that many complex words were originally hyphenated but are now written without a hyphen, for example ‘uncommon, ‘renew’, ‘email’ and ‘refine’

Elaboration ACELA1829

recognising and writing less familiar words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations, for example ‘journey’, ‘your’, ‘tour’ and ‘sour’

Elaboration ACELY1702

bringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge to new reading tasks

observing how writers use the beginning of a sentence to signal to the reader how the text is developing (for example 'Snakes are reptiles. They have scales and no legs. Many snakes are poisonous. However, in Australia they are protected')

Elaboration ACELY1705

editing for flow and sense, organisation of ideas and choice of language, revising and trying new approaches if an element is not having the desired impact

Elaboration ACELY1707

writing letters in print and by email, composing with increasing fluency, accuracy and legibility and demonstrating understanding of what the audience may want to hear

Elaboration (1) ACELA1500

exploring examples of words in which pronunciation, writing and meaning has changed over time, including words from a range of cultures

Elaboration ACELY1706

using handwriting with increasing fluency and legibility appropriate to a wide range of writing purposes

Elaboration ACELA1512

moving from general, ‘all-purpose’ words, for example ‘cut’, to more specific words, for example ‘slice’, ‘dice’, ‘fillet’, ‘segment’

Elaboration ACELA1502

recognising that a bare assertion (for example 'It's the best film this year') often needs to be tempered by: using the 'impersonal it' to distance oneself (for example 'It could be that it is the best film this year'); recruiting anonymous support (for …

Elaboration ACELA1504

becoming familiar with the typical stages and language features of such text types as: narrative, procedure, exposition, explanation, discussion and informative text and how they can be composed and presented in written, digital and multimedia forms

Elaboration (2) ACELY1796

choosing vocabulary and sentence structures for particular purposes including formal and informal contexts, to report and explain new concepts and topics, to offer a point of view and to persuade others

Elaboration ACELA1506

learning that in Standard Australian English regular plural nouns ending in ‘s’ form the possessive by adding just the apostrophe, for example ‘my parents' car’

Elaboration (1) ACELA1506

learning that in Standard Australian English for proper nouns the regular possessive form is always possible but a variant form without the second ‘s’ is sometimes found, for example ‘James’s house’ or ‘James’ …

Elaboration ACELA1507

knowing that complex sentences make connections between ideas, such as: to provide a reason, for example 'He jumped up because the bell rang.'; to state a purpose, for example 'She raced home to confront her brother.'; to express a condition, for example …

Elaboration ACELA1508

learning how to expand a description by combining a related set of nouns and adjectives – ‘Two old brown cattle dogs sat on the ruined front veranda of the deserted house’

Elaboration (1) ACELA1508

observing how descriptive details can be built up around a noun or an adjective, forming a group/phrase (for example, ‘this very smelly cleaning cloth in the sink’ is a noun group/phrase and ‘as pretty as the flowers in May’ is an adjective group/phr …

Elaboration ACELA1511

interpreting narrative texts told as wordless picture books

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