English / Year 5 / Literacy / Interacting with others

Curriculum content descriptions

use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea (AC9E5LY02)

Elaborations
  • participating in pair, group, class and school speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, discussions and presentations
  • asking specific questions to clarify a speaker’s meaning, making constructive comments that keep conversation moving, reviewing ideas expressed and conveying tentative conclusions
  • using strategies for discussion, such as speaking clearly, pausing, asking questions and linking students’ own responses to the contributions of others
  • choosing vocabulary and sentence structures for particular purposes including formal and informal contexts, to report and explain new concepts and topics, to offer an opinion and to persuade others
General capabilities
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural Understanding
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Conversations,  Speaking,  Social relations

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Deep diving into definitions

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