AC9E3LA07

Language for expressing and developing ideas

understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating

Elaborations

AC9E3LA07_E1exploring “doing” and “saying” verbs in narrative texts to understand how they give information about what characters do and say
AC9E3LA07_E2exploring the use of sensing verbs and how they allow readers to understand what characters think and feel; for example, “He remembered his first day at school.”
AC9E3LA07_E3exploring the use of relating verbs in constructing definitions and descriptions; for example, identifying the relating verb “is” or “are”, “has” or “have” in descriptions of animals
AC9E3LA07_E4identifying different types of verbs and the way they control meaning in a clause