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English / Year 4 / Language / Expressing and developing ideas

Curriculum content descriptions

Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases (ACELA1493)

Elaborations
  • creating richer, more specific descriptions through the use of noun groups/phrases (for example, in narrative texts, ‘their very old Siamese cat’; in reports, 'its extremely high mountain ranges')
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
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Word meanings,  Sentences (Grammar)

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