Language

Language for interacting with others

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
AC9E3LA10 – extend topic-specific and technical vocabulary and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts
AC9E3LA11 – understand that apostrophes signal missing letters in contractions, and apostrophes are used to show singular and plural possession