Elaboration ACELA1500
recognising that a knowledge of word origins is not only interesting in its own right, but that it extends students’ knowledge of vocabulary and spelling
Elaboration | ACELA1500 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
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 (1) | ACELA1500 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1501
identifying ways in which cultures differ in making and responding to common requests, for example periods of silence, degrees of formality
Elaboration | ACELA1501 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
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 | ACELA1502 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
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 | ACELA1504 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1505
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 | ACELA1505 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
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 | ACELA1506 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
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 (1) | ACELA1506 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
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 | ACELA1507 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1507
knowing that a complex sentence typically consists of a main clause and a subordinate clause
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1507 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
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 | ACELA1508 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
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 (1) | ACELA1508 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1511
interpreting narrative texts told as wordless picture books
Elaboration | ACELA1511 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1511
identifying and comparing sequences of images revealed through different hyperlink choices
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1511 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1512
moving from general, ‘all-purpose’ words, for example ‘cut’, to more specific words, for example ‘slice’, ‘dice’, ‘fillet’, ‘segment’
Elaboration | ACELA1512 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1513
talking about how suffixes change over time and new forms are invented to reflect changing attitudes to gender, for example 'policewoman' or 'salesperson'
Elaboration | ACELA1513 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
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 (1) | ACELA1513 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
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 (2) | ACELA1513 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACELA1513
applying knowledge of spelling generalisations to spell new words, for example ‘suitable’, ‘likeable’ and ‘collapsible’
Elaboration (3) | ACELA1513 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1514
Using knowledge of word origins and roots and related words to interpret and spell unfamiliar words, and learning about how these roots impact on plurals, for example ‘cactus’ and ‘cacti’, ‘louse’ and ‘lice’
Elaboration | ACELA1514 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum