English / Year 4 / Language / Expressing and developing ideas

Curriculum content descriptions

Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources into students’ own texts including vocabulary encountered in research (ACELA1498)

Elaborations
  • building etymological knowledge about word origins (for example thermometer) and building vocabulary from research about technical and subject specific topics
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Vocabularies

Interactive

Syllabus bites: types of sentences

A web page resource with information, teacher guides and activities on types of sentences to support the Australian Curriculum in English K–10. It has detailed activities, links to resources and quizzes.

Online

Principals as Literacy Leaders Project

This teacher resource describes the Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) professional learning strategy aimed at strengthening the capability of school principals to bring about improvement in the reading abilities of students in low socioeconomic status and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The resource ...