Elaboration ACELA1515
recognising that there are more than 150 Aboriginal languages and two Torres Strait Islander languages and that they relate to geographic areas in Australia
Elaboration | ACELA1515 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1515
recognising that all languages and dialects are of equal value, although we use different ones in different contexts, for example the use of Standard Australian English, Aboriginal English and forms of Creole used by some Torres Strait Islander groups …
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1515 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1516
identify and appreciate differences in language used in diverse family settings
Elaboration | ACELA1516 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1517
understanding when it is appropriate to share feelings and opinions (for example in a personal recount) and when it is appropriate to remain more objective (for example in a factual recount)
Elaboration | ACELA1517 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1517
differentiating between reporting the facts (for example in a news story) and providing a commentary (for example in an editorial)
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1517 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1518
exploring a range of everyday, community, literary and informative texts discussing elements of text structure and language features and comparing the overall structure and effect of authors’ choices in two or more texts
Elaboration | ACELA1518 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1518
examining different works by an author who specialises in humour or pathos to identify strategies such as exaggeration and character embarrassment to amuse and to offer insights into characters’ feelings, so building empathy with their points of view …
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1518 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1520
noting how a general word is often used for a more specific word already mentioned, for example ‘Look at those apples. Can I have one?'
Elaboration | ACELA1520 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1520
recognising how cohesion can be developed through repeating key words or by using synonyms or antonyms
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1520 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1520
observing how relationships between concepts can be represented visually through similarity, contrast, juxtaposition, repetition, class-subclass diagrams, part-whole diagrams, cause-and-effect figures, visual continuities and discontinuities
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1520 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1521
identifying different uses of commas in texts
Elaboration | ACELA1521 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1522
investigating how the choice of conjunctions enables the construction of complex sentences to extend, elaborate and explain ideas, for example ‘the town was flooded when the river broke its banks’ and ‘the town was flooded …
Elaboration | ACELA1522 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1523
knowing that verbs often represent actions and that the choice of more expressive verbs makes an action more vivid (for example 'She ate her lunch' compared to 'She gobbled up her lunch')
Elaboration | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1523
knowing that adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases can provide important details about a happening(for example, ‘At nine o'clock the buzzer rang loudly throughout the school’) or state (for example, ‘The tiger is a member of the cat fam …
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELA1523
knowing the difference between the simple present tense (for example 'Pandas eat bamboo.') and the simple past tense (for example 'She replied.')
Elaboration (2) | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACELA1523
knowing that the simple present tense is typically used to talk about either present states (for example, ‘He lives in Darwin’) or actions that happen regularly in the present (for example, ‘He watches television every night’) …
Elaboration (3) | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACELA1523
knowing that there are various ways in English to refer to future time, for example auxiliary ‘will’, as in ‘She will call you tomorrow’; present tense, as in ‘Tomorrow I leave for Hobart’; and adverbials of time, as …
Elaboration (4) | ACELA1523 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1524
observing how sequential events can be represented visually by a series of images, including comic strips, timelines, photo stories, procedure diagrams and flowcharts, life-cycle diagrams, and the flow of images in picture books
Elaboration | ACELA1524 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1524
observing how concepts, information and relationships can be represented visually through such images as tables, maps, graphs, diagrams, and icons
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1524 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1525
identifying (for example from reviews) the ways in which evaluative language is used to assess the qualities of the various aspects of the work in question
Elaboration | ACELA1525 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | English | F-10 curriculum