AC9E5LA01 – understand that language is selected for social contexts and that it helps to signal social roles and relationships
AC9E5LA02 – understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources
Text structure and organisation
AC9E5LA03 – describe how spoken, written and multimodal texts use language features and are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases, depending on purposes in texts
AC9E5LA04 – understand how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give prominence to the message and to guide the reader through the text
Language for expressing and developing ideas
AC9E5LA05 – understand that the structure of a complex sentence includes a main clause and at least one dependent clause, and understand how writers can use this structure for effect
AC9E5LA06 – understand how noun groups can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of a person, place, thing or idea
AC9E5LA07 – explain how the sequence of images in print, digital and film texts has an effect on meaning
AC9E5LA08 – understand how vocabulary is used to express greater precision of meaning, including through the use of specialist and technical terms, and explore the history of words
AC9E5LA09 – use commas to indicate prepositional phrases, and apostrophes where there is multiple possession